Audit Simplified · Governance Strengthened
Audit Management Software, from planning to remediation.
ControlVista is a modern audit management system for internal audit teams — risk-based assurance, efficient execution, and measurable outcomes. Bilingual EN/AR, on-premise, IIA 2024.
- IIA 2024 Standards
- On-premise
- Bilingual EN · AR
- Built by practitioners
Built on the standards that audit committees recognise.
- IIA Standards 2024
- COSO Internal Control
- ISO 19011
- GCC Public-Sector Overlay
—Sound Familiar?
The audit work isn't the problem. Everything around it is.
Your methodology is sound and your team is capable. But the function runs on spreadsheets, email threads, and a committee pack rebuilt by hand every quarter — and that is exactly where the rigor leaks away.
Version sprawl
AuditPlan_v2_FINAL(3).xlsx — three copies in three inboxes, and no trail of who changed what, when, or why.
Chasing evidence
Half the engagement is hunting screenshots and supporting files by email. Evidence lives in someone's memory, not in the file.
Review by inbox
Sign-off happens in email threads. At report time you reconstruct the independence trail you should have captured as you went.
Findings that won't close
The same observations come back next year. Overdue actions sit unchased because ownership is ambiguous and nothing escalates on its own.
The two-week report
Pivot tables and manual edits stand between the last day of fieldwork and a report the committee can actually read.
The 2 a.m. committee pack
Every quarter the board pack is rebuilt slide by slide, reconciled by hand against the system that should already know the answer.
Every one of these is capacity you don't have — and assurance you can't fully defend. ControlVista isn't a generic GRC suite bent into an audit shape. It is built by practitioners who ran the function, so the rigor is produced by the work, not bolted on after.
See why it's different—The Internal Audit Lifecycle
Risk drives the plan. The plan drives assurance.
ControlVista is built around the spine of internal audit — so the board can trace exactly how risk shaped the year's work.
- 01
Audit Universe
Score every auditable entity by weighted risk. The universe decides where assurance is needed most.
Risk-ranked entities
- 02
Risk-Based Plan
Risk drives the annual plan — coverage rotation, capacity-matched scheduling, board approval.
Board-approved plan
- 03
Engagement
Planning memo, RACM procedures, fieldwork and working papers — with preparer → reviewer → approver sign-off.
Evidenced working papers
- 04
Opinion & Remediation
Staged observations, AI-drafted reports, the audit opinion, and remediation tracked to verified close.
Assurance opinion
—The Platform
Five modules for the entire audit function.
Not a generic ticket tracker. Designed around the 2024 IIA Standards and the complete internal audit lifecycle, ControlVista works in five modules — four that follow the work from the universe to the closed action, and VistaAssist drafting across them.
VistaPlan
Planning & Scheduling
Score the universe, build the risk-based plan, and match it to the capacity you actually have.
Explore VistaPlanVistaField
Fieldwork & Evidence
Walkthroughs, control testing and working papers in one workspace, with sign-off built in.
Explore VistaFieldVistaResolve
Findings & Remediation
Stage observations, run the response thread, and track remediation to a verified close.
Explore VistaResolveVistaReport
Reporting & the Boardroom
Draft the report and opinion, and give the committee a live, board-ready view.
Explore VistaReportVistaAssist · AI across every module
AI that drafts across every module — drafting, not deciding, inside your perimeter.
—Why ControlVista
Built by auditors, for the way audit actually works.
ControlVista replaces the Excel-and-email audit shop with a defensible, board-ready record of how risk drove the plan, how the plan drove the engagements, and how the engagements drove the opinion.
Talk to the teamIIA 2024, not a CRUD shop
Risk-based universe → plan → engagement → opinion is the spine. Every screen reflects the standard, not a generic ticket tracker.
Three-stage sign-off, built-in
Preparer → Reviewer → Approver on every working paper. Independence and review evidence are produced as a by-product of doing the work.
Auditee self-service
Owners respond to findings and update remediation actions in the platform. No more chasing Excel trackers by email.
On-premise by default
Deployed in your data centre or private cloud. We have no access to your engagement files. Source-code escrow is available.
Bilingual at the schema level
English and Arabic on every user-facing field. Reports and audit-committee packs render natively in both languages.
25+
Years in GCC banking & FS
5
Vista modules
2
Languages, schema-deep
100%
On your infrastructure
—Built by practitioners
Designed by IT Audit and Risk professionals with 25+ years across GCC banking and financial services.
Standards
Aligned with IIA Standards 2024. The Global Internal Audit Standards are the spine of the product, not a checklist bolted on.
Sectors
Supports audit functions across banking, insurance, government and regulated industries — purpose-fit for GCC compliance posture.
Pedigree
Founded by practitioners who built and ran second- and third-line functions inside GCC banks. We know the committee's questions because we have answered them.
—Built for the GCC
Native Arabic, not an afterthought.
English and Arabic live on every user-facing field. Working papers, observation narratives, audit opinions and committee packs render natively in both languages — built for the GCC from the schema up.
Audit Simplified · Governance Strengthened
منصة إدارة التدقيق الداخلي
تدقيقٌ داخليٌّ متكامل، على بنيتكم التحتية.
كنترول فيستا منصةٌ ثنائية اللغة تعمل على بنيتكم التحتية، وتغطّي دورة التدقيق الكاملة وفق معايير الـ IIA 2024 — من نطاق التدقيق إلى إغلاق الإجراءات التصحيحية. يدخل مدير التدقيق إلى اللجنة بسجلٍّ واحدٍ قابلٍ للتتبّع عن خطّة التدقيق، والملاحظات عالية المخاطر، وحالة الإجراءات.
إدارة التدقيق، مُبسّطة · حوكمةٌ أقوى
—AI That Earns Its Keep
A working assistant for the team. Drafting, not deciding.
VistaAssist accelerates the slowest, most repetitive part of the engagement — writing — so auditors spend their time on judgement, not the keyboard. Every output is an editable draft attributed to a human owner, and it runs inside your perimeter.
Explore VistaAssistDraft engagement reports from working papers, observations, and management responses.
Generate executive summaries tuned to the audit-committee voice.
Suggest audit procedures from the RACM and prior-year findings.
Assist with finding narratives — condition, criteria, cause, effect, recommendation.
Accelerate committee packs from live engagement and remediation data.
—Security & On-Premise
On-premise by default. Sovereign by design.
Audit evidence is some of the most sensitive data an organisation holds. ControlVista runs where your governance requires it to — not where a vendor finds convenient.
Your data centre or private cloud
ControlVista is deployed on infrastructure you control — not a multi-tenant SaaS holding your engagement files.
Zero vendor access
We have no access to your working papers, observations, or evidence. Data residency stays entirely within your perimeter.
Source-code escrow available
Continuity guaranteed. Independent escrow of the source code is available for procurement and risk sign-off.
—For the Audit Committee
A board-ready view of assurance. Live, not retrofitted in Excel.
The Chief Audit Executive walks into the committee with a single, traceable record of where the function is — and where the risks are sitting. The dashboards are the system's view of itself, not a parallel slide deck.
What the committee seesReal-time plan progress — planned vs in-progress vs completed, with variance.
Outstanding high-risk findings across all engagements, by owner and ageing.
Management action status — on-track, slipping, overdue, verified closed.
Coverage reporting against the audit universe and the multi-year rotation.
Board-ready dashboards exportable to the committee pack in English and Arabic.
—Resources
Practical guidance for audit leaders.
Standards·11 October 2026
Internal audit and Qatar's State Audit Bureau: coordinating under IIA Standard 9.5
For heads of internal audit in Qatari ministries, public bodies and state-owned companies: what Law No. 11 of 2016 (as amended in 2026) lets the State Audit Bureau see and require, how the Bureau evaluates internal audit units, and how to coordinate with it under the 2024 IIA Standards.
7 min readGovernance·11 October 2026
Saudi Arabia's unified regulation for government internal audit units: a practical guide
What the Unified Regulation for Internal Audit Units in Government Entities (Council of Ministers Decision 129 of 1428H) requires of internal audit in Saudi ministries, universities, authorities and public institutions — article by article, with its amendment, the decision that abolished follow-up units, and how it meets the IIA 2024 Standards.
9 min readGovernance·10 October 2026
Qatar's 2025 Governance Code: what changes for the audit committee and internal audit
QFMA's Governance Code for Listed Companies (Decision No. 5 of 2025) moved internal audit's reporting line to the audit committee, gave the committee the annual audit plan, and made the Internal Audit Director a direct channel to QFMA. What the Code actually says — and what it doesn't.
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A 30-minute walkthrough with the team that built it — from the audit universe to the board-ready committee pack, in English and Arabic.
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