Protiviti introduced its second annual Audit Innovator Award to honor internal audit functions demonstrating bold strategy, cutting-edge technology and people-centered transformation. The program aims to spotlight solutions that redefine audit through intelligent automation, analytics and future-ready processes.

Five categories recognized winners in audit strategy, enabling technology, people & culture and trailblazer. Highlights include Morgan Stanley’s in-house Assurance Hub unifying risk and reporting, BNY’s Agentic AI Initiative deploying 1,000 personal agents, Microsoft’s enterprise-wide automation saving thousands of hours and IDB’s digital explorers model.

The awards reinforce Protiviti’s positioning in the consulting market as a leader in audit innovation, supporting Robert Half’s broader strategy to grow its advisory services. Showcasing high-impact deployments of GenAI and analytics may attract new clients seeking tech-driven audit transformations.