What a Deloitte Workday Audit Actually Delivers
A Deloitte Workday audit (or any Big 4 equivalent) is a serious piece of work delivered by genuinely experienced people. It is also routinely scoped narrower than the proposal implies. Here is the honest read on what the engagement delivers, what it doesn't, and where the value really is.
What the proposal implies
A 'comprehensive Workday tenant assessment.' What that means in the SOW is usually security and access controls — sometimes business processes, rarely calculated fields, almost never AI readiness or release readiness.
What the engagement actually delivers
- Stakeholder interviews and process documentation.
- Manual sampling of security groups, ISUs, and a handful of business processes.
- A risk register with severity ratings.
- A remediation recommendation document.
- Optional: SOX 404(b) attestation if engaged for it.
Where the real value is
Brand-name attestation for external auditors. Stakeholder change management. Peer benchmarking from a large client base. These are real and they justify the engagement — for some companies, every year.
Where the value gap is
Coverage. A Big 4 engagement will not enumerate every calculated field with a deprecated reference, every BP routing to a terminated worker, every ISU with stale credentials. Yoetz.ai does that part in 2 hours.
The hybrid that actually works
Yoetz.ai for discovery — 100% coverage, 2 hours. Deloitte (or Big 4 equivalent) for execution and attestation on the highest-severity findings. Cuts total spend significantly while increasing coverage.
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