PwC’s Oracle NetSuite security and compliance services

Helping clients manage security and financial controls in an ever-evolving compliance landscape.

Discover PwC's Oracle NetSuite security and compliance services, designed to enhance your system's integrity and compliance posture. Our seasoned professionals, with industry-leading experience, help you increase native Oracle NetSuite capabilities, whether you are a startup or an established enterprise. We support clients in meeting emerging compliance requirements and strengthening controls and governance frameworks. Our primary services include security and control implementations, IPO/SOX readiness, and security and control assessments and remediation.

Enhance your organization's compliance posture with our innovative solutions and methodology infused with PwC's industry-leading experience to help improve your Oracle NetSuite environment.

  • Managed services: Ongoing security maintenance, segregation of duties and controls monitoring.
  • Real-time insights: Gain confidence in your data with real-time and exception-based monitoring using intuitive dashboards, KPIs, notifications and reports providing stakeholders with actionable insights.
  • Pre-Configured content: Implement security and controls solutions quickly by using our security and control design templates, reports, dashboards and accelerators.
  • Regulatory compliance: Take advantage of our experience preparing for IPO and SOX readiness. Gain insight on approaching risk and regulatory hurdles like security design, change management, workflows and auditing.
  • Adoption of emerging technology and NetSuite Automation: How to leverage and utilize Oracle NetSuite’s recent capabilities to transform your business and help unlock efficiencies throughout releases.

PwC's Oracle NetSuite security and compliance services at a glance

Oracle NetSuite transformations (before, during, post go-live)

Our security and control capabilities for Oracle NetSuite are crafted to help your business and enhance your cloud transformation, offering reduced costs and improved risk management.

  • Develop a security strategy to sustainably align and adopt native Oracle NetSuite security features.
  • Design, configure and test compliant application security roles to help confirm your security is a fit for your business, with proper segregation of responsibilities.
  • Assess security design for vulnerabilities and identify segregation of duty risks.
  • Build reports to enable audit and exception reporting.
  • Develop controls based on Oracle NetSuite dashboards, reminders and notifications.
  • Build training materials to support control execution.

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IPO/SOX readiness and deal readiness

Our Oracle NetSuite security and controls services assist companies in preparing for SOX compliance during pre-IPO or SOX readiness assessments.

  • Assess current state control environment with SMEs that understand Oracle NetSuite and provide control recommendations so you can have an environment that is compliant.
  • Develop your IPO and SOX compliance roadmap and help establish internal audit functions to test the design and operation of controls.
  • Deploy analytics that are designed for Oracle NetSuite and can help identify configuration gaps, security vulnerabilities, enhancements opportunities and readiness for strategic growth.

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Compliance focused assessments, control remediation, and data analytics

Our Oracle NetSuite controls capabilities enhance the impact and value of your compliance functions.

  • Perform impact assessment on how to adopt and apply new regulator guidance to new and existing control frameworks in your environment.
  • Develop and build-out actionable remediation plans. Leverage analytics to diagnose root-causes and prioritize based on financial impacts.
  • Automate and streamline recurring work to test controls using intelligent automation and exception-based dashboard reporting.
  • Broaden the value and efficiency of your compliance stakeholders and personnel across the suite of your organization.

Managed services

Our Oracle NetSuite managed services offer a variety of services including ongoing application security maintenance, SoD monitoring, automated controls testing for ITGCs and business process controls, and exception-based risk analytics.

  • Ongoing application security maintenance.
  • Application security and segregation of duties (SoD) monitoring and reporting.
  • Automated controls monitoring and testing.
  • IT general controls testing.
  • Business process controls testing.
  • Build exception-based risk analytics.

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Ten challenges customers should tackle in Oracle NetSuite

A holistic suite of topics to help companies address risk, increase their investments in Oracle NetSuite, generate high ROI value and establish control in the cloud. Discover the essential topics that equip companies to effectively understand how to prevent common compliance pitfalls in Oracle NetSuite. Ready to learn more? Connect with our PwC subject matter specialists below for personalized insights and request a complimentary copy of our range of whitepapers.

Oracle NetSuite functional security design

Safeguarding your company starts with appropriately securing your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instance. Poorly designed roles lead to excessive access to execute transactions and are typically the root cause of regulatory and compliance and separation of duties (SOD) concerns.

Interested in PwC's security design approach? Contact us to download our insights and hot topics.

Privacy, data and file security in your Oracle NetSuite account

Misalignment of your security strategy and how you protect your vendor, customer, employee and business data can lead to costly fines, sanctions, reputational damage and leakage of proprietary company information. Learn more about the practices to safeguard your data.

Learn more about the practices to safeguard your data.

Manual journal entry considerations

Despite being one of the more susceptible areas for material accounting error and fraud to occur, many companies struggle to design processes and controls that can effectively secure, prevent and detect manual journal entry risk(s).

Learn how to use Oracle NetSuite analytics to build an intelligent command center to monitor your environment.

Data validation and business reporting (key reports, saved searches, audit reports)

Whether trying to assess data conversion during your implementation project or generating revenue reporting, controls are needed to confirm data integrity is maintained. Oracle NetSuite analytics, saved searches, system notes and reports are a handful of features to get the ideal data into the hand of your decision makers.

Reach out to our team for a deeper dive into gaining confidence over your data.

Configurations, automated controls, preferences, features and more

Many customers often need help demystifying how and why their Oracle NetSuite configuration is defined (due to turnover, system evolution, lack of experience). Key setup, preferences, features, etc. are each controlled in various work areas that should be baselined for change management and auditors.

Learn how to help automatically analyze and detect changes based on industry-leading practices.

Oracle NetSuite workflows

Designing workflows to confirm business rules are not bypassed, mass approvals do not circumvent authorization, auto-approval criteria align with finance standards, access roles support the process and approval delegation routing are just a few of the complexities related to effective workflows meeting business requirements.

Our subject matter specialists are available to offer guidance and share their industry-leading knowledge of the complexities of Oracle NetSuite workflows.

Administrator and sensitive access abilities

Understanding who within your organization has elevated access permissions can be vital to maintaining a strong control environment.

Our specialists are knowledgeable across the hundreds of permissions within Oracle NetSuite and the risks if roles are designed ineffectively.

Application changes in your account

Oracle NetSuite’s continuous improvement comes with challenges to adopt new features and address change management concerns (e.g. spring and fall releases Release.1 and Release.2). Customers that do not effectively establish change management processes may have residual IT SOD (separation of duties) risks, to address in audit trail report monitoring.

Reach out to learn more about designing change policies and procedures to help create efficiencies for your IT organization and personnel.

Security auditing and governance

It is common for many customers to have gaps in their security governance processes or to lack them altogether. With a vast number of customers having global eco-systems to manage, internal and external login threats may rise from company employees, contractors and external parties.

Learn how you can provide transparency and equip your organization with the necessary tools and strategies to help address these challenges.

Using intelligent automation for Oracle NetSuite

Consider how your company can leverage Oracle NetSuite’s continuous improvement model to better your business capabilities, drive efficiency and help mitigate risk. Reach out to us to learn more on innovative solutions, use-cases and continuous monitoring capabilities across the ERP suite.

Our bundled and pre-configured content and accelerators

  • Security design templates
  • Pre-built for most deployed modules roles for GL, Tax, AP, AR, ARM, SCM
  • Test scripts and navigation paths
  • All security permissions mapped to industry leading segregation of duty risks (+80 SOD rules) across industry/sector
  • Benefit from our accelerators to help streamline work
  • Monitor and assess security and controls using our specifically designed for Oracle NetSuite bundle
  • Gain value and help prevent costs procuring SOD and GRC tools
  • Automated controls enhancements / benchmarking
  • Test of design and control effectiveness
  • Standardized SOX, IT, and operations and data protection accelerators injected with PwC audit and compliance experience to design and implement controls
  • Risk and control matrices for clients to leverage and document how compliance requirements are achieved
  • Embed risk and compliance SMEs for Oracle NetSuite and beyond

Contact us about our Oracle NetSuite compliance bundle, infused with knowledge and a base control set.

  • 31 IT general controls
  • SOD transaction impact analytics
  • Transaction, master data and fraud analytics (e.g. unmatched invoices, duplicate vendors, suspected duplicate payments)
  • Cash leakage analytics
  • Oracle NetSuite control-based workflows

Experience makes a difference

Explore client success stories that showcase our innovative solutions and methodology infused with PwC's industry-leading experience enhancing your Oracle NetSuite environment.

We helped enhance an AI firm's security posture to sustainably grow with Oracle NetSuite.

PwC helped its financial services client embed controls into its new Oracle NetSuite cloud ERP.

We helped prime this health and beauty company for its IPO readiness and beyond on Oracle NetSuite.

PwC helped pinpoint and remediate financial close, intercompany and segregation of duties issues.

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Stephen Sullivan

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