Corporate Audit Analytics

At Unilever, it is important that financial processes run correctly and that possible fraud is kept to a minimum. Unilever's Corporate Audit department is responsible for monitoring and reducing risk of these processes. In a multinational company that processes millions of transactions per year, this audit is quite a challenge because it is impossible to look at everything in detail.

With D-Data, we helped the Corporate Audit department by advanced analytics to apply to Unilever's transaction data. For example, we made risk assessments per supplier, looking at different transaction patterns, changing bank account numbers and unexpected supplier types, for example. In addition, we analyzed journal entries, zooming in on weird combinations of debit/credit ledger account numbers and journal entry output data within a specific country. These analyses, supported by dashboards, have enabled Unilever to gain new insights into unexpected patterns that occur and potentially act fraudulently.

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