Supervised AI Agents as Audit Team Members
Joseph Oringel Overview:
AI is moving beyond automation to become a true teammate in the GRC process. This session will show how supervised AI agents can work alongside accountants, auditors and IT security professionals to enhance efficiency, consistency, and assurance quality.
Of critical importance is training and supervision so that the AI agents accomplish their testing to quality standards that are intended. Attendees will leave with a practical view of how AI-powered testing can be applied to both internal and external assurance.
Why you should Attend:
Agentic AI is rapidly being deployed by leading audit, compliance, and finance teams. While AI agents are not yet replacing all of today’s knowledge workers like auditors, accountants, and IT security professionals, those knowledge workers that effectively use Agentic AI may soon be replacing those knowledge workers who do not use these tools.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Independent execution: AI agents can perform control testing and analyze evidence across multiple formats
- Audit-ready outputs: Deliver high-quality results with speed, accuracy, and consistency
- Workflow integration: See how agents fit seamlessly into existing audit engagement processes
- Guardrails and governance: Learn the safeguards and governance needed to ensure reliability
- Human supervision: Explore the critical role of training data and oversight in producing trustworthy results
- Practical applications: Real-world examples of firms already deploying supervised AI agents in audits
- Augmentation, not replacement: Understand how AI can support, rather than substitute, on audit teams
Who Will Benefit:
- Internal auditors
- Public accountants
- Finance Managers and Business Process owners with Responsibilities for Managing Internal Control and Quality Functions
Speaker Profile
Joseph Oringel is a Managing Director at Visual Risk IQ, a national risk advisory firm established in 2006 to help finance and audit professionals see and understand their data. The firm has completed more than 200 successful data analytics and data visualization engagements and serves dozens of public sector clients and public and private corporations. Visual Risk IQ is a Tableau Alliance partner and Microsoft PowerBI partner and brings a repeatable approach to enabling finance and audit teams to build and develop sustainable, in-house analytics programs.
More recently, Joe has been a co-founder of Service AI, a start-up that built and commercialized an email-reading software robot that prioritizes and dispatches IT help desk tickets with limited human intervention. Together with his data analytics expertise, Joe uses the experience with Service AI to help Internal Audit teams and CPA firms get up the learning curve with Agentic AI, all while maintaining effective supervision and governance.
Joe has more than twenty-five years of experience in internal auditing, fraud detection, and forensics, including ten years of Big Four assurance and risk advisory services. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor and a past president and Board Member of the Charlotte IIA Chapter. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.