Detecting Duplicate Vendor Payments a Decade of Audits Missed
How FINFATech turned data into measurable results.
The situation
A national distribution group processed enormous volumes of vendor payments across multiple entities. Annual audits sampled transactions and had never flagged an issue — yet leadership had a persistent sense that money was leaking through the accounts payable process.
What FINFATech did
Rather than sampling, FINFATech ingested the full population of AP transactions and applied AI-assisted anomaly detection to identify duplicates, near-duplicates and suspicious payment patterns. Every flagged item was triaged by a forensic analyst before reaching the client, eliminating noise.
The result
The engagement recovered duplicate payments, closed the control gaps that allowed them, and transitioned the client onto FINFA Monitored™ for continuous integrity oversight. The deterrence value of operating under visible monitoring has proven as important as the recovery itself.
“The forensic analytics surfaced a pattern of duplicate vendor payments our annual audit had never caught.”
— Group Financial Controller, National Distribution Group
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