You don't know how much risk you're carrying until an auditor asks a question you can't answer quickly. Our new agent handles evidence gathering automatically, freeing finance teams to focus on value creation.
Today, we're announcing the general availability of Workday's Financial Audit Agent, which cuts the time to build audit evidence packages by 75%. The new agent works within Workday's Accounting Agent, our broader agent that empowers enterprises to remove friction and move faster—with financial integrity and governance built in.
Audit prep can consume hundreds of hours as finance and accounting teams gather documentation, chase down invoices, and demonstrate recorded process history. Nearly 7 in 10 finance employees say these kinds of administrative tasks create significant friction in their day-to-day work, according to a Workday report.
Our new agent removes that friction by automatically gathering audit evidence, freeing finance teams to focus on value creation. And early adopters are already getting that time back—we expect them to save them over 450 hours per year.
Customers already using the Financial Audit Agent have cut the time to build audit evidence packages by 75%. For many of those companies, including Genesys, that's a critical step toward a no-touch audit.
"Workday's Financial Audit Agent is the first step in my dream of getting a touchless audit," said Andy Schuleman, Chief Accounting Officer at Genesys. "Audit teams spend a lot of time and effort providing information to their auditor. With the Financial Audit Agent, that's now one step where we no longer have to pull information for our auditors."
Anyone who has prepared for an audit knows why that matters: an auditor sends a "Prepared by Client" request, and someone spends hours digging through supplier invoices, receipts, purchase orders, and journals to prove a transaction happened the way the books say it did. The process can surface real insight—but usually too late, at the end of a reporting period. In order for audits to have real value, they need to be faster, easier, and continuous.
The Financial Audit Agent is the answer. Accountants and controllers simply ask for the evidence they need—an invoice, a supplier contract, a bank reconciliation—and the agent retrieves it instantly through a natural language interface, then assembles everything into a compilation package ready to share with auditors and other stakeholders.
"Workday's Financial Audit Agent is the first step in my dream of getting a touchless audit.”
Andy Schuleman
Chief Accounting Officer,
Genesys
Today, many finance teams are still stitching together evidence from siloed HR, procurement, and finance systems—and hope the trail isn't impossible to recreate. It's the exposure so many finance leaders describe: you don't know how much risk you're carrying until an auditor asks a question you can't answer quickly.
Evidence retrieval and audit response don't happen in isolation—they depend on a complete, trustworthy record of everything that has happened, and when. Customers using Workday are already one step ahead, with a platform that unifies HR, financial, procurement, and other data sets.
Our Financial Audit Agent runs on this unified data model, bringing financial, operational, and people data together on a single platform customers have trusted for years to get the holistic evidence they need. Accounting teams get rigorous user management, data security, and a single audit trail tracking every transaction and business process from day one.
In other words, the foundation for audit-ready evidence is built in, not bolted on. That distinction is important because it means teams don't need to buy a separate audit tool or commit to multi-year implementation before seeing results.
Financial integrity is imperative. Workday was one of the first in the world to achieve ISO/IEC 42001 certification for responsible, reliable AI development and management. The Financial Audit Agent runs on this certified platform, giving finance and audit leaders built-in trust.
As more leaders are asked to vouch for the AI tools their teams adopt, that certification is quickly becoming a baseline requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
Workday was one of the first in the world to achieve ISO/IEC 42001 certification for responsible, reliable AI development and management.
Evidence retrieval is just the beginning. The Financial Audit Agent’s upcoming testing capabilities will test 100% of transactions, surface exceptions immediately, and recommend remediation—replacing periodic spot-checks with continuous, always-on testing.
That's the future of finance and accounting we believe in: audits are no longer a scramble and instead something that's always happening in the background. By moving toward continuous testing and handing the mechanics of evidence retrieval to an agent, finance and accounting teams can reclaim their time for what only they can provide: judgment and strategic counsel.
Want to see the Workday Financial Audit Agent in action? Book a demo today.
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