SOX Product Implementation Expert
$1,400
A course will be available for 365 days upon enrollment
Certifications / Product Implementation Expert

SOX Product Implementation Expert

Overview:

This certification curriculum includes both the product implementation course and the platform administration course. Successfully completing the course content and certification exam will yield the user an SOX Product Implementation Expert Certificate.

Level – Advanced

Duration – 45 Hours

Course Completion Requirement – 2 weeks from date of assignment

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with SOX concepts

 

Practice, Assessment & Certification:

Once courses 1 & 2 have been completed, please reach out to your trainer at [email protected] for the following:

  1. Practice Instance: MSU will provide access to a practice instance for a duration of 2 weeks.
  2. Facetime with Instructor: Collate all questions you may have on the course and send to your trainer; the trainer may host a dedicated 1hr session to address any questions.
  3. Assessment & Certification: You are expected complete the assessment in 2 weeks from the assignment of this course

Curriculum content

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    The MetricStream SOX Compliance app allows you to resolve Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance challenges by designing, assessing, and improving the internal controls.   The product monitors compliance processes in detail and provides evidence to auditors on the internal control testing results. It also provides control and visibility into compliance issues, statuses, and plans.  Using the SOX, Executive Management can review and certify the risk and control assessments according to SOX Act Section 302 requirements. Level – Advanced Course Duration – Course Duration – 4 Hrs of Training Content + 4 hrs of Practice + 2 Hours of Q&A with MSU Instructor Course Completion Requirement – 2 weeks from date of assignment Pre-requisites: Familiarity with SOX concepts Learning Objectives:  The training is focused on the features, process, workflows, and functionalities of the SOX application. At the end of the training, practice and certification, resources will be able to understand:  §       Product Functionality & Use Case  Workflow  Usage ·           Understand how to navigate the app ·           Create and/or upload SOX compliance content ·           Create and approve Library Content ·           Create, approve and manage compliance plans ·           Execute compliance assessments ·           Create, approve and manage Risk Assessment plans ·           Execute risk assessments ·           Create, approve and manage surveys & certifications ·           Respond to surveys & certifications ·           Log, approve, manage, monitor and close issues ·           Administer and manage the SOX app §       Product Functionality & Use Case  Workflow  Usage ·           Configuration Workbooks ·           Updating SOX LOVs ·           Updating SOX Data Tables ·           SOX Configuration Parameters §       Product/Use Case Setup ·           Perform SOX Setup ·           Perform Risk Assessment Setup ·           Import Data

    • Lesson SOX App – Comprehensive Course (250 Minutes)

    • Lesson Overview and Navigation

      MetricStream SOX Compliance Management enables enterprises to effectively address SOX compliance challenges, and reduce the time and costs involved in managing compliance. The product supports the process of setting up a SOX framework, planning and scheduling risk assessments, and performing control tests and assessments. It also helps in managing evidence collection and other documentation, performing certifications and sign-offs, and remediating issues.

    • Lesson Libraries

      The GRC Foundation is a comprehensive set of libraries and visualizations that provides the business users the capabilities to model their specific enterprise libraries requirements.

    • Lesson Self-Assessment and Testing

      Testing or Compliance Testing determines the extent to which the staff follow prescribed policies and procedures in actual practice. It compares procedures as executed against required or expected procedures. Testing provides objective evidence on how well the controls are executed.

    • Lesson Risk Assessments

      The Risk Assessments  module enables you to identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and manage enterprise risks in an integrated manner.

    • Lesson Certifications

      Use the Certifications module to conduct one-time or periodic certifications and sub-certifications to check if the organization pays particular attention to an area that is perceived as being weak or having poor systems and controls in place.

    • Lesson Issues

      The Issues module helps in issue reporting, loss event tracking, task management, and status reporting. It supports the identification and evaluation of issues as well as case investigation and tracking leading to an elaborate remediation or corrective action process.

    • Lesson SOX: Product Setup

      MetricStream components can be tailored to specific requirements of an organization in different ways. This unit covers the most common requirements and functions performed by an 'Apps Administrator" in the SOX application.

    • Lesson SOX Product Administration

      This unit will enable you to provision, deactivate and map users to various roles in the SOX app.

    • Lesson SOX Product Configuration

      This unit covers configuration topics enabling you to populate configuration workbooks, updating LOVs and Data Table on forms and defining workflow parameters

    • Lesson SOX: Use Cases

    • Lesson SOX Practice

      Please reach out to your trainer for credentials to the practice instance before starting this unit.

  • This certification requires the following assessments to be completed:   Assessment – I: The test has 60 questions that need to be answered and you will have 120 minutes to complete the assessment once started. You may start this at any time before the closure date, however once started the test cannot be paused. Hence ensure that you have set aside time to complete this assessment before you hit the  START  button. 2.   Assessment – II: This is a scenario-based assessment that ought to be completed before the assessment closure date. Since there is no time limit, you may start the test right away and complete it in any order you see fit. Please ensure that all results are captured and filled before the assessment closure dates.