Defining Process Design
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Introduction
Purpose of this paper
This document sets out an approach to completing the
Process Design. It covers the some of the rationale behind the choice of
sections of the associated template, and gives guidance as to how to
complete them.
Worked examples are shown throughout the document.
For clarify these are shown as shaded box-outs.
Note: for details on how to obtain the template
for this deliverable, please visit the
templates section.
Purpose of process design deliverable
The work process design is a formal deliverable, with
one per significant stage of the process (usually sub-process). The
deliverable has the following purposes:
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To give guidance to how the process is to be
executed (from a functional perspective) |
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To gives audit the opportunity to asses
sub-processes’ ability to satisfy control and risk |
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To specification artefacts required to support the
business process (e.g. reports, business rules etc) |
But is not:
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To replicate user manual (i.e. won’t reference
screenshots) |
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To provide detailed design or architecture document |
It should be sourced largely from the Process and
Ownership documents, but will also require new input (which will need
end-user verification) to satisfy:
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Specific needs to relevant participants |
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System and infrastructure changes (e.g. changes in
processing from data sources) |
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Additional controls. |
Context of process design deliverable
This deliverable is process design – describing the
“how” as apposed to the process and owner deliverable’s “what”. As well as
describing the steps the process will follow in a SOX/audit compliant
manner, it must also describe in detail the design of the controls, the
impacted roles responsibility and any informational needs. It is subject
to its own template to cover how this is to be set out, described in the
following sections.
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