100% SOX compliance achieved with Kforce's hybrid delivery model

100% compliance with no fiscal audit findings for more than three consecutive years

Before partnering with Kforce, the client managed compliance engineering services through another provider. While the approach worked, it required significant hands-on involvement and relied on manual processes that slowed turnaround times. The client wanted a solution that could maintain strong compliance standards while introducing greater efficiency and ease.

Kforce offered a model designed for flexibility and streamlined collaboration. By reducing the need for day-to-day client oversight and enhancing visibility, we created a process that supported timely information flow and confident decision-making. This gave the client assurance that transitioning to Kforce would be smooth and secure, without introducing any risk to SOX compliance.

• Enhance compliance management and streamline workflow integration
• Improve task monitoring and decision-making processes
• Ensure seamless offshore transition of engineering workstreams without productivity loss
• Maintain high team efficiency and collaboration

Kforce’s managed service model transformed the client's compliance engineering function into a proactive, audit-ready operation. Key components of the solution included:

Automation-driven compliance
Introduced automation to streamline previously manual processes, enabling faster turnaround of compliance tasks and reducing the risk of human error. This included automating evidence collection, task tracking and reporting across User Access Reviews (UAR) and Elevated Access Reviews (EAR) cycles.

Executed a coordinated process to capture and organize audit trails from quarterly UARs and daily/biweekly EARs ensuring all access to production workloads are secure and well-documented. Evidence was attached to Azure DevOps for traceability, enabling auditors to easily verify compliance. The team built custom workflow automation to optimize this process.

Developed a workflow to engage engineers directly, equipping them with tools and guidance to resolve compliance issues or provide necessary artifacts, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.

Provided the client with direct access to Kforce’s engineering team while maintaining a structured leadership model for performance oversight and daily task management.

Implemented a hybrid onshore/offshore model to support a continuous compliance workstream, ensuring global time zone coverage and operational efficiency.

The collaboration between Kforce and the client’s compliance engineering team resulted in compliant workstreams, improved task management, enhanced communication and effective risk mitigation. The structured approach and daily cadence ensured tasks were completed successfully and any issues were addressed promptly, leading to a more efficient and compliant operation. The offshore transition component provided immediate and ongoing value while minimizing disruption to current business operations, allowing for efficiency gains, cost reductions and ensured compliance with the client’s audit processes.