Flagship course

Reconciliation Audit Essentials

A practical programme for analysts and leads who drive a reconciliation audit app through every month-end — from match design to exportable evidence.

Desk with calculator, coffee, and financial papers

Learning outcomes

  • Design match rules that reduce false greens without flooding the manual queue.
  • Triage exceptions by risk, age, and owner — not by whichever line looks easiest.
  • Write variance notes that answer the next auditor question.
  • Assemble an evidence pack from your reconciliation audit app that a reviewer can follow unaided.
  • Map a close calendar that keeps bank, subledger, and intercompany work in a sane order.

Informational pricing

Match Desk

£480

Self-paced access

Variance Studio

£1,150

Live cohort with labs

No checkout on this site. Contact us to enrol. Full tier comparison on pricing.

Modules

  1. 01
    Close anatomy

    How reconciliation work sits inside the UK month-end calendar, and where the app should — and should not — be the system of record.

  2. 02
    Match rule craft

    Thresholds, tolerances, partial matches, and the cost of silent auto-clears.

  3. 03
    Exception triage

    Ageing, materiality, and routing so high-risk breaks surface first.

  4. 04
    Narrative evidence

    Comment standards, attachments, and cross-references that survive review.

  5. 05
    Intercompany & timing

    Common UK patterns: VAT timing, FX, and delayed counterparty postings.

  6. 06
    Sign-off rehearsal

    Export an audit pack and defend it in a structured peer review.

Instructor

Portrait of course instructor

Owen Fairchild

Former SSC lead for a FTSE-adjacent services group. Owen has designed reconciliation controls for multi-bank environments and now facilitates Insight Analytics cohorts.

Who it suits

Reconciliation analysts, team leads, and controllers who already open a reconciliation audit app each close. Not aimed at absolute beginners to double-entry bookkeeping.

FAQ

Do you teach a specific vendor’s reconciliation audit app?

No. Screens are modelled on common mid-market patterns. Methods transfer; button labels will differ in your stack.

How much time should I set aside?

Self-paced Match Desk averages six to eight hours. Variance Studio adds six live sessions of ninety minutes plus lab homework.

What is a real limitation of this course?

We do not remediate poorly designed ERP integrations. If your feeds arrive late or incomplete, training improves how you document the gap — it will not fix the feed itself. Teams sometimes underestimate that constraint.

Can internal audit join?

Yes for Assurance Circle bookings. For open Variance Studio cohorts, observers are welcome if seats remain after learners enrol.

Course reviews

Module four’s comment standards replaced our vague “timing difference” habit. Short, specific, and immediately usable.

Aisha K., Group Finance · Birmingham

★★★★☆

Exception triage was excellent. I wanted one more worked example on FX breaks — we covered that in office hours instead.

Client in logistics finance