Unilever Europe IT - Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Project

ZR was appointed by Unilever, as the UK shared services arm of Unilever fell three months behind schedule in meeting its compliance requirements. We conducted a full review for the Shared Services Financial Department managing to complete the project within three months of its deadline by implementing and developing robust standards for all SOX documentation.

ZR Consultants were responsible for documenting all the processes, controls and risks and carrying out Walkthroughs as well as conducting operational testing to ensure the controls were effectively mitigating the risks. Where deficiencies were identified ZR were responsible for implementing remediation.

The work carried out by ZR was highly commended at Board level and by the firms external Auditors (PWC).

The test document templates set up by ZR were rolled out to the Unilever Group worldwide to be used as standard SOX documentation.