New app uses Process Intelligence to automate manual controls and enable continuous monitoring, helping organizations proactively mitigate financial and operational risks.
COPENHAGEN, MUNICH and NEW YORK, May 06, 2026 – Celonis, a global leader in Process Intelligence, today announced the launch of the Celonis SOX and Internal Controls Manager by Deloitte. The new application delivers end-to-end process visibility to help leaders across Finance, Controlling, Internal Audit, and Procurement efficiently manage risk and compliance through a data-driven approach to internal controls.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires rigorous financial disclosures, but traditional control environments often rely on manual, time-consuming, and error-prone sample testing. They often only catch control violations that already have a negative impact. The SOX and Internal Controls Manager enables companies to modernize and automate these processes by integrating transactional data from multiple sources to detect violations early and replace periodic manual checks with continuous, real-time monitoring.
A global pharmaceutical company has already used the solution to transform its internal controls across Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash O2C, and Record-to-Report (R2R) processes. By automating over 100 controls with Celonis, the company reduced its cost of control by 10% in the first wave of implementation and significantly accelerated month-end closing.
Key benefits of the app include:
- Significant Manual Effort Reduction: Automates slow, manual controls, allowing internal audit teams to refocus on strategic initiatives.
- Real-Time Risk Mitigation: Provides continuous monitoring of risk and control breaches to identify and address issues before they escalate.
- Enhanced Transparency: Offers granular tracking from transaction-level details up to global process owners through a unified overview.
- Streamlined Workflow Management: Enables stakeholders to launch communication and collaboration workflows directly within the app to resolve violations.
“Having been an auditee myself, I’ve seen firsthand how traditional risk management tools often miss the operational context and the timeliness that really matters,” said Diederick Badon Ghijben, Customer Transformation Advisor at Celonis. “By infusing process intelligence into the audit workflow we help organizations to turn compliance from a reactive hurdle into a proactive engine for operational excellence. We are proud to have developed this solution alongside Deloitte, a leader in this domain.”
"Internal controls have traditionally been a manual, fragmented process, bogged down by a lack of real-time data transparency," said Daniel Jørgensen, Partner at Deloitte Denmark, who has been an integral part of developing the solution together with Celonis. “By building this solution on the Celonis platform, we are enabling organizations to shift from traditional sample-based testing to data-driven controls management, allowing them to ensure fast ROI and increased risk reduction.”
The Celonis SOX and Internal Controls Manager by Deloitte is the latest addition to the Celonis Platform Apps Program. The program provides pre-built, domain-specific solutions created by trusted partners with deep industry knowledge, all built on the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform.