Technology Strategy & Governance
Threaded Consulting takes on the work that is high-stakes, highly visible, or already behind schedule: walking into ambiguity, establishing structure, and delivering results that leadership and auditors actually trust. Risk and controls is where it's proven, from standing up SOX programs to rescuing struggling projects and remediating the issues others can't close.
Why Threaded
The name comes from how we work: pulling the threads of complex environments (systems, processes, people, findings) into a control fabric that holds up under audit, year after year.
Experience across SOX audit cycles, industries, and company sizes, including remediation of significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. Fluent in how external auditors think, test, and conclude, so work is built for reliance and fewer surprises.
Stalled implementations, failing process redesigns, teams without a clear strategy of attack: turned around by bringing organization, sequencing, and a finish line everyone can see.
Ambiguous, high-pressure, behind-schedule engagements owned end to end. Point us at the problem and get progress reports, not questions.
Deliverables built for the audiences that matter: audit committees, boards, and external auditors. Big 4 caliber speed and precision.
Practical, sustainable control design focused on root cause, not documentation that checks a box for one audit cycle and falls apart the next.
Complex environments, sprawling documentation, and messy system landscapes read and understood faster than most tools built to do it.
Offerings
A look at the engagements that come up most often, from board-level advisory to hands-on remediation. Each can run as a scoped project, a retainer, or hourly support, whatever fits how you need to work.
For boards, audit committees, and executives navigating a major implementation, transformation, or a difficult conversation with management.
Technical risk translated into language boards can act on, including the hard messages. Independent perspective on management's handling of implementations, control posture during transformation, and what external auditors will care about next.
Track recordRegular audit committee presenter, typically multiple committees per quarter. Trusted by chief audit executives for candid assessments of critical work products ahead of eight-figure transformations.
For projects that are behind schedule, over budget, or quietly failing, especially when a remediation or audit deadline depends on them.
An independent, unvarnished read on where the project actually stands, the critical risks no one has said out loud, and a phased plan that gets delivery, compliance, and leadership aligned on the same finish line.
Track recordOn a two-year, board-visible platform build meant to remediate a revenue material weakness: critical-risk findings issued within one month, then a phased go-live plan built with the CFO, CAO, and compliance teams that put remediation back on track.
For companies carrying a material weakness, significant deficiency, or a finding that keeps resurfacing every audit cycle.
Root-cause remediation, not finding whack-a-mole. Each deficiency traced to the process, system, or design flaw underneath it, fixed with controls that hold up across audit cycles, and validated before the auditors re-test.
Track recordMultiple material weaknesses and significant deficiencies remediated, including ITGC failures tied to system functionality issues impacting an entire revenue cycle.
For emerging and pre-IPO companies facing their first year of SOX, sized so a dedicated program architect, not an army of consultants, is the right answer.
The architecture for a complete first-year SOX program: scoping, risk assessment, risk and control matrix design, and the executive reporting structure. Your team executes against a clear blueprint and clear direction, and you end up with a program built to pass its first audit and be maintained in-house afterward.
Track recordThree SOX programs built from scratch as pre-IPO or first-year builds, across six-plus programs led or served as core lead.
For organizations implementing SAP S/4 HANA, custom applications, or other major systems, before go-live locks in the risk.
It starts with a pre-implementation review: an independent read on whether the project will meet audit and control requirements. From there, the control architecture for the new environment, with the risk and control matrix rebuilt around it, controls specified for your project team and integrators to embed during the build, and a pre-testing approach that positions external auditors to rely on the work instead of duplicating it.
Track recordThree SAP S/4 HANA implementation control workstreams led, including a large-scale migration with zero significant findings at pre-implementation or go-live.
For internal audit teams that are strong on business process but stretched thin on IT: specialized depth without a specialized hire.
Deep IT audit capability plugged into your existing function: scoping and executing IT audits, reviewing workpapers and reports before they go out, and covering the specialized areas generalist teams should not have to master alone. Selective audit season capacity for the teams we already support.
Track recordIT SOX compliance delivered across multiple public companies simultaneously, plus risk-based audits spanning energy, payroll technology, and manufacturing, from all three lines of defense.
How We Work
A defined engagement with a defined finish line: readiness build, implementation workstream, remediation sprint, or risk assessment. Scoped upfront, owned end to end.
Ongoing access to senior IT risk counsel without a full-time hire: recurring advisory, audit committee support, and a standing resource when questions come up.
Lighter-touch support billed as you go, for one-off reviews, second opinions, or questions that don't need a full engagement to answer.
Extra depth when the calendar demands it, offered selectively to the internal audit teams we already support: testing, review, and coordination through the crunch.
About
Threaded Consulting was founded by Skye Wickersham, a Big 4 Senior Manager in Digital Risk with more than a decade across IT audit, IT risk consulting, and in-house program ownership, spanning all three lines of defense.
Skye has led controls workstreams for large-scale SAP S/4 HANA migrations, owned a public company's IT SOX program end to end through multiple clean audit cycles, chaired a Change Advisory Board, and served as a trusted advisor to audit committees and boards across the energy, payroll technology, and manufacturing sectors.
Beyond the audit lane, Skye has turned around failing projects and process redesigns, negotiated vendor contracts down, and built a public company's IT financial plan from scratch, starting from nothing but a general ledger download.
That range, consultant and client, builder and auditor, practitioner and board advisor, is the difference between advice that sounds right and controls that actually work.
Contact
Every engagement starts with a conversation. Reach out to discuss your control environment, upcoming audit, or IT risk concerns. No obligation.