SOX ADVISORY · TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING · INTERNAL AUDIT · AI GOVERNANCE
Your auditors have questions.
We make sure you have answers.
WBC helps growth-stage and PE-backed companies design the financial control environments their auditors expect — before audit season reveals they don't have one. Big 4 backgrounds. National practice.
Big 4 Alumni
National Practice
4 Focused Services
Every engagement is led by former Big 4 audit and advisory professionals.
Clients across the US and internationally, serving regulated and growth-stage companies.
SOX & Controls. Internal Audit. AI Governance. Technical Accounting & SEC Reporting. No generalist work.
WHY COMPANIES COME TO WBC
Growing companies face an audit gap. We close it.
When a company grows fast, its finance team moves fast too. Controls exist — but they live in people's heads, not in documentation. Processes get automated before governance catches up. AI tools get adopted before anyone asks who owns the output.
Then the auditors arrive — or the PE firm mandates a controls review, or the S-1 process begins. And suddenly the gap between where the company is and where it needs to be becomes very visible.
WBC comes in before that moment — or helps you recover from it. We work alongside management to shape a control environment that should have existed all along: documented, defensible, and built to hold up under the scrutiny that comes with growth.
WHAT WE DO
Four focused services. Designed for the companies that need them most.
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SOX & Controls Advisory
WHO THIS IS FOR
Pre-IPO companies. PE-backed companies post-acquisition. Public companies needing SOX co-sourcing or project support.
We work alongside management to assess, structure, and document financial control environments for companies navigating SOX for the first time, preparing for a public offering, or needing ongoing compliance support. Our work spans the full controls lifecycle — from initial scoping and assessment through remediation and audit readiness.
DELIVERABLES INCLUDE
SOX implementation and scoping
Pre-IPO control readiness assessment
Process narratives and risk & control matrices (RCM) — facilitated and documented with management
SEC reporting liaison and coordination (filing support handled under Technical Accounting service)
Entity-level control (ELC) mapping
SOC 1 CUEC mapping (where applicable)
Control design assessments and gap analysis — management-led with WBC facilitation
Remediation planning and execution support
02
Technical Accounting, SEC & Financial Reporting
WHO THIS IS FOR
Pre-IPO companies approaching their first SEC filings. Public companies needing SOX or reporting support. Companies undergoing M&A transactions, carve-outs, or restructurings. Organizations needing interim finance leadership during transitions.
We support management and finance teams on complex accounting matters, SEC reporting obligations, and critical transaction events. This service focuses on accounting judgment, financial reporting, and transaction support — not on control design or audit readiness, which are covered under SOX & Controls Advisory.
DELIVERABLES INCLUDE
M&A finance due diligence
10-Q and 10-K SEC reporting support
Technical accounting of complex transactions (revenue recognition, lease accounting, business combinations, and more)
Audit support and auditor liaison (providing technical accounting explanations to external auditors — distinct from internal audit services)
Staffing and interim accounting and controller support
Carve-out accounting and reporting
03
Internal Audit
WHO THIS IS FOR
Companies without a dedicated internal audit function. Organizations supplementing an existing team during periods of growth or transition.
We provide co-sourced and fully outsourced internal audit services for companies that need the function without the full-time overhead. Our team brings Big 4 methodology and regulated industry experience to every engagement.
DELIVERABLES INCLUDE
Annual audit plan development
Control testing and evidence evaluation
Individual audit engagements (operational, financial, compliance)
Audit findings, recommendations, and management reporting (control remediation support provided under SOX & Controls Advisory)
Risk assessment and audit universe development
Audit committee reporting support
04
AI Controls Advisory
DELIVERABLES INCLUDE
AI usage inventory within financial processes
AI is already inside most financial processes — often without formal governance.
We work with your team to identify every AI and automated element in your finance function, assess the control and audit risk, and help management build the governance structure your auditors will increasingly require.
Risk categorization (low / medium / high impact)
Governance framework facilitation and documentation
Output validation control design — developed with and approved by management
WHO THIS IS FOR
Any company using AI tools, automated workflows, or ERP rule engines in their finance function. Available standalone or as an add-on to SOX & Controls Advisory.
Monitoring and oversight structure
AI policy drafting support
Audit readiness assessment for AI-enabled environments
HOW WE WORK
A few things we believe about how good advisory work gets done.
These are not policies. They are the commitments we make to every client — and the reasons most of our clients stay.
01
Partner-led. Always accountable.
Every WBC engagement is led and overseen by a partner with direct Big 4 experience in controls, SOX, and regulated industries. We stay present and involved from the first conversation to the final deliverable. You will always have a senior advisor who knows your engagement inside and out — and who owns the outcome.
02
Scoped clearly. Priced transparently.
We define what we will deliver, by when, and for how much — before we start. Whether the engagement is a defined project or an ongoing advisory relationship, you will know exactly what you are paying for and why. If scope or circumstances change, we have that conversation early — not after the invoice arrives.
03
We tell you what we find. All of it.
Our job is not to make your control environment look good on paper. It is to make it actually good. That means telling you what is wrong, what is missing, and what it will take to fix it — even when that is a harder conversation than the one you came in expecting. You hired us for our judgment. We do not water it down.
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The work outlasts the engagement. By design.
Everything WBC produces is built to be owned and maintained by your team — not to create dependency on us. The narratives, the RCMs, the governance frameworks are management's controls, documented in management's voice, and defensible by management when we are gone. If you want us to stay involved, we will. If you do not, you are set up to move forward on your own.
WHO WE SERVE
We work where control risk is highest.
PE-Backed Companies
Your investors expect enterprise-level controls. Your finance team was built for a smaller company. We close the gap — fast.
Pre-IPO & SOX Readiness
The path to SOX compliance starts earlier than most companies realize. We help management build the right control architecture before the auditors arrive.
Regulated Industries
Insurance, financial services, and other regulated companies face heightened control expectations. We understand the landscape and build for it.
GET IN TOUCH
Let's talk about your control environment.
Start with a free 30-minute consultation — no pitch, no obligation. Tell us what you are navigating and we will tell you honestly whether and how we can help. We respond within one business day.
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