DRK Resources Tech is Proud to Announce New Business Partner GAP Resources
GAP Resources, LLC is a successful Chicago-based professional services firm offering accounting/finance, compliance, business process and IT consulting, with the same or better results as much larger firms at a fraction of the cost. GAP team members average more than 20 years of experience in multiple practice areas, much of it working with and for extended warranty companies. GAP professionals foster success by employing a tactical approach that is process-oriented, data-driven and cost-effective.
GAP Professionals make accounting process change happen successfully by providing subject matter expertise and change management skills. You know where you want to go – and we can help you get there.
Accounting and reporting tasks don’t just stop to address change from new automation, staff changes, control requirements or accounting policies. GAP Resources helps clients navigate those changes.
The GAP Resources team can assist with your accounting and finance process changes, supplementing your project team, or in a part-time or full-time ongoing support role addressing such areas as:
Accounting System Change or Staff Integration – Assistance with current processes to be maintained or improved during a transition, planning or execution related to IT system and/or business processes and monitoring results during changes through account reconciliations and analysis.
Accounting System Implementations – Accounting subject matter expertise applied in traditional roles for new systems implementation including functional requirements, test case execution, conversion reconciliations and post implementation process documentation.
Change Management – Change management expertise to assist finance organizations with its own projects or in projects where finance is a key stakeholder.
SOX and Other Regulatory Accounting Controls – Assisting with the significant scrutiny and oversight of a control deficiency, including remediation plans, verification of improvements and assisting in control execution for a sustainable solution. Correcting potential control issues before they become an issue. Change management communication to stakeholders, providing both an accounting and audit perspective.
Compliance - Efficiently supporting your compliance requirements. We assess your organization’s processes so that control and compliance activities can be tailored to and integrated within your organization. As a result, control execution is better understood, sustainable and cost-effective.
The GAP Resources team can also assist with IT specific projects. Clients have leveraged our expertise to design control execution right – the first time. We help clients develop the most efficient approach to meet the required objectives. Once an approach is put into place your organization can leverage it for years to come. GAP can provide part-time or full-time ongoing support addressing such areas as:
Control Automation and Transformation – Control process assessment, change implementation and coordinating with audit stakeholders to demonstrate that changes address control requirements and also improve efficiency, effectiveness and auditability.
New Control Program Implementation – Based on the control criteria, (SOX, SOC, etc.) identifying current or new control processes, assisting with change management, providing an audit “perspective” and leveraging the multiple approaches our experienced team has encountered.
IT Controls – IT controls expertise spanning security, infrastructure, change management and user recertification addressing SOX and SOC implementation and/or improvements. Monitor controls execution, manage external compliance requests (external auditors, internal auditors, and customer auditors). In a compliance role, GAP can assist with control execution and/or documentation.
Internal Audit Outsourcing or Temporary Support – A dedicated role to cover assigned internal audit activities executed efficiently while adopting any requirements and documentation of our client.
Audit Preparation or Control Deficiency Remediation – Anticipate audit requirements, manage required changes, assist control executors to effectively communicate their controls.
GAP Professionals fluently “speak” 3 languages – accounting, IT and controls. Our ability to execute both detailed tasks, as well as providing a more complex level of analysis, is highly valued as we resolve the immediate issue, facilitate change, and identify opportunities for long-term improvements. We are problem solvers, always focused on our clients’ needs.