How a Regional Bank Cut Audit Prep Time by 65%

A US regional bank with $42B in assets came to us with a familiar problem: every audit cycle consumed 2,400 staff hours, mostly spent collecting evidence that already existed somewhere in the organization.

The starting point

Three control owners. Eleven evidence repositories. Seven different naming conventions. Audit prep started six weeks before the first auditor walked in.

What changed

• Continuous evidence collection wired to existing systems — no rip-and-replace.
• Auto-mapping of evidence to control language regulators already use.
• A single auditor-ready view, refreshed nightly.

The result

Audit prep dropped from 2,400 hours to 840 — a 65% reduction. The team redirected the saved capacity into proactive risk work, which the CRO cites as the larger win.