We help organizations identify overlooked risks, strengthen internal controls, and reduce financial leakage through independent assessments, targeted audits, and pre-payment compliance review.
Four practice areas designed to address the risks and control gaps most likely to affect mid-market, nonprofit, and public organizations.
Structured identification of the financial, operational, and compliance risks most relevant to your organization — before they surface as problems.
Targeted audit and control review work that follows either a known concern or a prior risk assessment. Scoped to where it matters most.
Independent pre-payment oversight of invoices and expense reports — stopping errors and exceptions before disbursement, not after.
A focused review of IT-related controls affecting security, confidentiality, continuity, and operational reliability at the system and process level.
Organizations engage Hunter Audit Services when they need independent eyes on risk and controls — without the overhead of a large firm or the limitations of an internal team reviewing its own work.
No management consulting relationships, no software products to recommend, no internal politics. The analysis reflects what we find, not what is convenient.
Engagements are scoped to specific risks, controls, or process areas — not open-ended retainers. You get focused work on what actually needs attention.
Findings and recommendations are written for CFOs, boards, and executive leadership — clear, direct, and actionable without translation.
Purpose-built for organizations that need the discipline of enterprise-level risk and controls work without enterprise-level consulting fees.
We work with organizations that carry real financial risk and governance responsibility — but don't always have the internal capacity to manage it independently.
A structured front-door engagement that identifies the financial, operational, and compliance risks most relevant to your organization — so you can act on what matters, not what's assumed.
Most organizations operate under assumptions about where their risk actually lives. Those assumptions are rarely complete. A Risk Assessment replaces assumption with evidence — giving leadership a clear, prioritized picture of what's exposed before a problem surfaces.
It's also the most efficient way to begin. Before committing to a deeper audit engagement, a Risk Assessment ensures the work goes where it will have the greatest impact.
An internal team reviewing its own processes rarely surfaces the full picture. An outside assessor, with no stake in the findings, provides coverage internal reviews cannot.
Risk Assessment deliverables are written for executive and board-level audiences — clear findings, clear priorities, and clear next steps.
A focused, time-efficient risk identification exercise designed for organizations that need a current-state picture without committing to a full engagement. Typically completed in two to three weeks.
A comprehensive evaluation across the organization's financial, operational, and compliance risk landscape. Produces a thorough risk register and prioritized remediation roadmap suitable for audit committee or board review.
Targeted audit and control review work that goes where your risk assessment points — or directly to a known concern. Scoped to where it matters most.
Internal Audit & Controls Advisory engagements are scoped to the process areas, control environments, or organizational functions where risk is most concentrated. The work produces clear, documented findings and recommendations — not open-ended observations.
Structured end-to-end review of targeted processes to identify control gaps, bypasses, and design weaknesses that may not be visible from documentation alone.
Assessment of whether controls in place are appropriately designed to address the risks they're intended to mitigate — and whether they're operating as designed.
Sample-based testing of transactions, approvals, and disbursements to evaluate whether controls are being applied consistently in practice.
A prior audit finding, a reported exception, or a process area that hasn't been formally reviewed — and you need an independent look.
Risk Assessment findings have pointed to specific process areas or controls that warrant deeper examination before remediation or reporting.
An audit committee, board, funder, or regulatory body has raised questions about specific controls, and you need an independent, documented response.
Independent pre-payment oversight of invoices and expense reports — catching errors, exceptions, and policy violations before disbursement, when it's still possible to stop them.
Most disbursement errors, duplicate invoices, unsupported expenses, and policy exceptions are recoverable — if they're caught before payment is released. After disbursement, recovery is uncertain, time-consuming, and often incomplete.
Payment Compliance Review inserts an independent checkpoint into the payment process, providing documented pre-payment verification that protects the organization from financial leakage and creates an accountability record for audit or board review.
Payment Compliance Review is independent oversight — not a shared services or accounts payable function. The work identifies exceptions, policy violations, and unsupported payments before they become permanent disbursements.
Each review produces a documented findings log — a record that can be presented to leadership, auditors, or an oversight body as evidence of pre-payment controls in operation.
Pre-payment review of vendor invoices for compliance with contract terms, policy requirements, and authorization controls. Each invoice is reviewed against supporting documentation before the payment is released.
Independent pre-reimbursement review of employee expense reports against organizational policy and applicable funder or regulatory requirements.
A focused, independent review of the IT-related controls that affect your organization's security posture, data confidentiality, operational continuity, and system reliability.
Most organizations' financial and operational risk is no longer purely process-driven — it runs through their IT environment. Access controls, change management, data integrity, and system continuity are no longer IT concerns alone. They are governance and financial risk concerns.
An IT Controls Audit examines these areas from a risk and controls perspective — separate from a technical security assessment or penetration test. The output is written for leadership, not for IT staff.
This is not a cybersecurity assessment or a technical infrastructure review. It is a governance-level audit of the controls your IT environment relies on — evaluated against what they're designed to protect.
Findings are framed in terms of financial exposure, operational disruption risk, and compliance impact — translating technical control gaps into language that matters to leadership.
An external auditor or risk assessment has identified IT controls as an area of concern — and you need an independent, documented response before the next review.
An unauthorized access event, a data integrity issue, or an access control failure has raised questions about the reliability of your IT control environment.
A financial system implementation or migration is underway, and controls need to be reviewed before go-live or shortly after to confirm they're operating as designed.
Independent risk and controls advisory for growing organizations where complexity has outpaced internal oversight capacity — and the stakes of getting it wrong have increased.
Mid-market organizations face a specific challenge: they've grown large enough to carry material financial and operational risk, but their internal controls, audit function, and governance infrastructure haven't always kept pace. The processes that worked at $30M don't automatically scale to $150M.
CFOs and Controllers at this scale often recognize the gap but lack the internal capacity — or the independence — to address it comprehensively. That's where outside advisory works best.
The right starting point for an organization that hasn't had a formal, independent review. Establishes a current-state risk picture and tells leadership exactly where to focus remediation and audit resources.
Targeted audit work on the specific processes or control areas most relevant to your stage of growth — often following a risk assessment or prompted by a known concern.
Pre-payment independent oversight for organizations where disbursement volume or complexity has grown faster than internal review capacity.
A focused review of IT-related controls — particularly access and change management — for organizations implementing new systems or facing external audit scrutiny of their IT environment.
Independent advisory for nonprofit organizations navigating board fiduciary obligations, restricted fund compliance, funder accountability, and the limits of internal oversight capacity.
Nonprofit leaders are accountable to boards, funders, regulators, and the public — all with varying expectations about financial controls, compliance, and stewardship. Most nonprofit organizations carry these obligations without a dedicated internal audit function or compliance staff.
When a funder asks questions, an audit surfaces a finding, or a board member raises a concern, having documented, independent controls work on record matters significantly.
A structured review of financial, operational, and compliance risks — particularly those most relevant to board fiduciary obligations and funder accountability. Often useful as preparation before an external audit.
Pre-payment oversight of disbursements, expense reimbursements, and vendor payments — with documentation suitable for grant audits and board review.
Targeted review of specific process areas or control environments identified through a risk assessment or prompted by a funder inquiry, audit finding, or board concern.
A governance-level review of IT controls — particularly user access and data integrity — for organizations where a system audit or funder review has raised questions about IT risk.
Independent advisory for special districts, authorities, and public-adjacent entities that operate under heightened oversight expectations and public-funds accountability requirements.
Public and quasi-public organizations operate under a layer of oversight that private organizations don't face: legislative scrutiny, public records requirements, audit committee mandates, and the expectation that public funds are being managed with documented discipline.
When that oversight arrives — through a formal audit, a legislative inquiry, or a public complaint — having a record of independent, proactive controls work changes the nature of the conversation significantly.
An independent, documented review of the risks and control gaps most relevant to a public-accountability environment — structured to support audit committee review and management response.
Targeted internal audit work on procurement, disbursement, payroll, or specific process areas identified through prior risk assessment or external audit findings.
Pre-payment oversight of procurement disbursements, contractor payments, and expense reimbursements — with documentation designed to support public accountability requirements.
Governance-level review of IT controls for organizations facing external scrutiny of their system access, data integrity, or change management practices.
An independent advisory firm focused exclusively on risk assessment, internal audit, payment compliance, and IT controls — for organizations that need practical, high-value outside work.
Hunter Audit Services is an independent outside advisor. We do not manage operations, provide staffing, sell software, or operate as a traditional management consulting firm.
The firm focuses on four service areas — Risk Assessment, Internal Audit & Controls Advisory, Payment Compliance Review, and IT Controls Audit — each of which shares a common purpose: giving leadership and governance bodies an independent, documented view of where risk lives and whether controls are doing their job.
This work is most valuable when it's truly outside the organization — free from internal politics, management relationships, and the constraints that prevent internal teams from surfacing what actually needs to be seen. Every engagement is structured to produce findings and deliverables that leadership can act on and governance bodies can rely on.
We work primarily with mid-market organizations, nonprofits, and public or quasi-public entities — organizations that carry material risk and governance responsibility, but whose internal capacity to manage it independently is often limited by size, resources, or structural conflict.
Most engagements begin with a Risk Assessment, which establishes the priority areas for deeper work. From there, Internal Audit, Payment Compliance, or IT Controls work follows — scoped specifically to what the risk picture demands.
The starting point — establishing where risk lives and what needs attention.
Targeted audit work on the process areas and controls identified as priorities.
Ongoing or periodic pre-payment oversight to prevent financial leakage.
Governance-level review of IT controls tied to financial and operational risk.
You don't need a fully defined scope to start the conversation. A brief description of your organization, your concern, or what you're trying to accomplish is enough.
We work with CFOs, Controllers, COOs, Executive Directors, and finance and governance leaders across a range of organizations. If you're not sure whether an engagement is the right fit, that's what the initial conversation is for.
Many engagements begin before the client fully knows what they need. A short description of the issue, concern, or objective is all that's necessary to start.
The fastest way to start the conversation is by phone or email. A brief description of your organization and what you'd like to discuss is enough.
Initial consultations are handled directly by phone or email.
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