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This week on The Audit Podcast, we're doing something a little different.

It's an end-of-year, blooper-style episode that pulls back the curtain on the show. You'll hear the unscripted moments, side comments, and behind-the-scenes bits that usually get edited out—including just how many times Trent says, "Mary Charles cut that out." throughout the episodes (hint it's a lot).

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

This week on The Audit Podcast, there's a new host in town… and it's not me. Eric Wilson steps in and leads a reverse interview where I finally take a turn as the guest.

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Timecodes:

0:39 – What Made Trent Start The Audit Podcast

4:09 – The Origins of IA on AI

6:09 – Understanding the "How"

10:34 – Trent's Most Memorable Podcast Episodes

13:11 – Where to Listen to The Audit Podcast

14:13 – Skill Sets New Auditors Should Focus On

15:36 – The Biggest Shift in Internal Audit

16:25 – What Keeps Trent Motivated

17:04 – Trent's Green Thumb Challenges

18:56 – Final Thoughts

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

This week on The Audit Podcast, there's a new host in town… and it's not me. Eric Wilson steps in and leads a reverse interview where I finally take a turn as the guest.

Be sure to connect with Eric on LinkedIn.

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1:30 – Lightning Round of Questions for Trent

6:23 – Trent's Career Journey

13:25 – Trent's Work–Life Balance

16:39 – Greenskies Analytics: How Tech Has Changed Things

19:50 – The Footprint of Greenskies Analytics

20:42 – Using Copilot to Accelerate Analytics in Your Company

25:10 – What's New for Greenskies Analytics

26:15 – How Trent Started Running The Audit Analytics and AI Conference

32:50 – New Conferences

35:33 – A Sneak Peek at Future Conferences

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

This week on The Audit Podcast, our guest is Mike McDonald, Chief Audit Executive at BorgWarner.

This episode is a little different—it's a replay from one of our sessions at the Audit Analytics and AI Conference, sponsored by Supervisor. Mike has been in the CAE role at BorgWarner for about a year, and he walks us through what that first year has really looked like.

We get into what he expected going into the role, what surprised him, and the biggest lessons he learned in his first hundred days.

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2:14 — What It's Like Stepping into the CAE Role

8:19 — Understanding Internal Audit's Mission

9:31 — How CAEs Allocate Resources

11:09 — A CAE's Perspective on KPIs

13:52 — Using Full-Population Testing Effectively

16:16 — How to Implement Supervision

17:26 — Building In-House Solutions vs. Using External Tools

20:31 — Identifying What Truly Matters with Population Testing

22:32 — The Skill Sets CAEs Want

24:30 — How Internal Audit Teams Are Using AI

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

This week on The Audit Podcast, we're joined by three members of Snowflake's internal audit team: Amrita, Pooja, and Ajay.

Amrita Kapoor, Head of Internal Audit at Snowflake, walks us through how their team is using Snowflake's native tools to build practical analytics and AI solutions. She shares several real use cases their internal audit function has deployed—many of which Snowflake customers can replicate with the tools they already have.

We're also joined by Pooja K., who takes us inside the AI tool she built for the audit team. And here's the part that might surprise you: Pooja has no technical background—no analytics, no IT, no engineering—and yet she built her AI solution in a single evening. She breaks down exactly how she approached it, what she created, and why auditors without a tech background should feel empowered to start experimenting.

Finally, Ajay R., Internal Audit Manager at Snowflake, walks through additional AI and data analytics use cases their team has implemented, highlighting what's possible when internal audit fully leverages Snowflake's capabilities.

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Timecodes:

4:38 - Snowflake: Team Introductions

14:08 - Leveraging Data Analytics for ITGCs

20:07 - Testing Termination Controls

24:16 - Strengthening Collaboration Between Internal and External Audit

27:46 - How AI Is Shaping Resources and Hiring

30:17 - Final Thoughts

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics. the services firm that helps auditors leapfrog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.

This week on The Audit Podcast, our guest is Jamie Meziere, Chief Audit Executive at FedEx.

Jamie shares what FedEx's analytics and AI program looks like today and the one thing she wishes every auditor would start doing now. She also talks about the early career goal she set to become a CAE—and how she created a plan, executed on it, and ultimately stepped into the Chief Audit Executive role at one of the largest organizations in the world.

We also get into what happens after you reach that milestone: what her first year as CAE has looked like, how she approached her first performance evaluation, and the criteria she believes matter most when evaluating CAEs.

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3:15 - Jamie's LLM History

6:10 — Leveraging AI for Vision and Strategic Planning

8:54 — Jamie's Top Advice for Auditors

11:20 — Early Career Goals and Jamie's Path to Becoming a CAE

16:02 — Goal-Setting and the Importance of Mentorship

22:40 — Guidance for CAE Evaluations

24:30 - Final Thoughts

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

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This week on The Audit Podcast, our guest is Clarissa Lucas, author of Beyond Agile Auditing.

Back by popular demand, Clarissa discusses whether auditing with agility is more of a mindset or a methodology—and why focusing on the why matters more than the how. She shares practical ways teams can move from a "practice-first" approach to an agile mindset and highlights key agile practices supported by recent research she's translated for the audit community.

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Timecodes:

2:15 – Clarissa's Favorite AI Prompt

10:46 – Auditing With Agility

14:18 – Shifting the Mindset Around Agile Methodology

17:04 – Anchoring to the "Why"

19:02 – Why a "Practices-First" Approach Doesn't Work

21:50 – How to Effectively Measure the "Why"

27:43 – The Importance of Feedback Loops

31:17 – Breaking Work into Smaller, Manageable Batches

32:09 – Helpful Resources for Auditors

36:10 – Use Case Corner: Managing Too Many Stand-Ups

41:10 – Final Thoughts

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.