Event Type: Virtual
Cost: Member Pricing – $FREE / Non-Member Pricing – $25.00
CPEs Available: 1
Across the Department of War, leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate sound financial stewardship, maximize constrained resources, and ensure auditability across complex mission portfolios. Yet—as in the private sector—many risk management and internal audit functions struggle to move beyond compliance-driven routines. Too often, they generate static reports that satisfy oversight requirements but do not provide the timely, data-driven insight needed to guide resource allocation, strengthen controls, or support mission-critical decisions. The missing element is meaningful risk analytics that can convert dispersed financial, operational, and audit data into information for leaders to make sound and timely decisions.
This session, Harnessing Risk Analytics for Audit and Decision Support, explores how the Department of War and other federal agencies can apply analytics to enhance internal audit, modernize oversight, and improve financial integrity. Participants will see how analytics can identify emerging risks earlier, highlight anomalies that may affect budget execution or contracting outcomes, and continuously monitor high-value areas such as cybersecurity, logistics, workforce readiness, and financial reporting. Real examples and case studies will demonstrate how modern analytics turns audit results and risk indicators into practical guidance for leaders responsible for resource decisions and operational performance.
The session will also introduce an analytics maturity curve tailored to helping organizations assess their current capabilities and chart a path toward continuous monitoring, automated controls testing, and real-time decision support. Attendees will leave with concrete approaches for integrating analytics into risk, audit, and financial stewardship functions—strengthening accountability, improving auditability, and enhancing mission readiness through better-informed decisions.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of risk analytics in decision-making: Learn how analytics transforms audit and risk management from compliance activities into tools that directly support mission outcomes.
- Apply analytics to audit and oversight functions: Explore practical techniques for using analytics to detect issues earlier, strengthen assurance, and provide leaders with curated, actionable insights.
- Advance along the analytics maturity curve: Identify where your organization currently stands in its use of analytics for risk and decision support, and outline practical next steps for integrating analytics into DoD operations, resource allocation, and strategic planning.
Webinar Presenters
Jason Venner is a Solutions Sales Director and subject matter expert for Diligent, where he helps customers learn how they can mature and strengthen their Enterprise and operational risk, internal controls, IT risk and compliance, and audit capabilities using the integrated analytics and automation of the Diligent One platform. Prior to joining Diligent, Jason spent 23 years as a practitioner in audit, risk, and compliance functions in the public and transportation sectors, including several leadership roles. He started his career working with some of the most complex organizations in the world, the defense and national security agencies of the U.S. government. He then moved to the transportation sector, working at working at Amtrak and Metro in Washington DC, and he has also worked for public accounting and consulting firms.
Paul Gass joined the Diligent team to support the DoD’s efforts to improve audit, risk, and compliance management through modern automation, data analytics, and governance. Prior to Diligent, Paul served as a CTO for a consulting firm. He spent more than 20 years as a leader within the DoD and Federal government. As an SES, Paul served as the CFO, an Operations Executive, and the CIO at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service supporting audit, internal controls, data analytics, AI/ML, automation, system modernization, financial reporting, cybersecurity, and process improvements for finance and accounting operations across the globe. Paul’s experience across finance, operations, and IT allow for wide perspective of governance, risk, and compliance efforts.
