Closing the loop
Who checked it, and were they outside the room
251 verification checks are on the record. 62 were signed by somebody outside the team that authored the subject … more
By what is being checked
A class with no independent check at all carries no outside assurance, however many signatures it holds.
Benefit lines
190 checks
62 independent · 33% of the class
128 signed inside the authoring team
Strategy positions
61 checks
not one check in this class is independent
61 signed inside the authoring team
56 teams author the subjects being checked and 57 teams sign the checks. Independence is decided by comparing the two, not by job title.
Who is signing
Every person who has signed a check, and whether their team sits outside the one that authored the subject.
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
Finance
72 checks
self-check
Grace Abbott, Internal Audit
Internal Audit
62 checks
independent
Ana Duarte, Group Financial Controller
Finance
56 checks
self-check
VP Category Management
Category Strategy
3 checks
self-check
Chief Records Officer
Records & Information Management
2 checks
self-check
Head of Service Delivery
Service Delivery Management
2 checks
self-check
VP Regulatory Affairs
Regulatory Affairs
2 checks
self-check
VP Litigation
Litigation & Disputes
2 checks
self-check
Director, Corporate Services
Corporate Services
1 check
self-check
VP Corporate Real Estate
Real Estate Portfolio
1 check
self-check
Director, Travel & Expense
Travel & Expense
1 check
self-check
Chief of Staff, Corporate
Executive Support
1 check
self-check
Director, Fleet & Assets
Fleet & Assets
1 check
self-check
Director, Tier-1 Service
Tier-1 Resolution
1 check
self-check
Director, Field Service
Field Service Dispatch
1 check
self-check
Head of Customer Experience
Voice of Customer
1 check
self-check
VP Engineering Operations
Portfolio & Intake
1 check
self-check
Director, Security Engineering
Security Engineering
1 check
self-check
Director, Engineering Analytics
Engineering Analytics
1 check
self-check
Director, Engineering Quality
Code Review & Quality
1 check
self-check
Director, Site Reliability
Site Reliability
1 check
self-check
Director, Engineering Effectiveness
Technical Debt
1 check
self-check
VP Financial Planning & Analysis
FP&A & Planning
1 check
self-check
Director, Finance Systems
Finance Systems
1 check
self-check
Director, Management Reporting
Management Reporting
1 check
self-check
Tower Lead, Hire-to-Retire
H2R Control Tower
1 check
self-check
Head of Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
1 check
self-check
Head of Automation
Automation Factory
1 check
self-check
Director, Culture & Engagement
Culture & Engagement
1 check
self-check
Director, Performance & Talent
Performance Management
1 check
self-check
Director, Workplace Technology
End-User Compute
1 check
self-check
Director, Security Operations
Cybersecurity Operations
1 check
self-check
Associate General Counsel, Commercial
Commercial Advisory
1 check
self-check
Chief Compliance Officer
Compliance & Ethics
1 check
self-check
VP Brand
Brand & Positioning
1 check
self-check
Director, Marketing Operations
Marketing Ops & MarTech
1 check
self-check
Director, Digital Experience
Digital & Web
1 check
self-check
Director, Customer Advocacy
Customer Advocacy
1 check
self-check
Director, Payment Operations
Payment Interlock
1 check
self-check
Director, Procurement Analytics
Spend Analytics
1 check
self-check
VP Sourcing
Negotiation & Award
1 check
self-check
Director, Supplier Management
Supplier Onboarding
1 check
self-check
Director, Supplier Risk
Supplier Performance & Risk
1 check
self-check
Director, Accounts Payable Operations
Invoice & Three-Way Match
1 check
self-check
Director, Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting
1 check
self-check
Director, Research Methods
Experiment Design
1 check
self-check
Director, IP Capture
IP Creation & Capture
1 check
self-check
VP Regulatory Science
Regulatory Science
1 check
self-check
Director, Revenue Systems
Systems & Integration
1 check
self-check
Director, Renewal Operations
Renewals & Churn Ops
1 check
self-check
Director, Demand Planning
Demand Planning
1 check
self-check
VP Supply Chain Strategy
Network Design
1 check
self-check
VP Integrated Business Planning
Sales & Operations Planning
1 check
self-check
Director, Global Trade
Trade & Customs
1 check
self-check
Director, Supplier Collaboration
Supplier Collaboration
1 check
self-check
VP Sales Operations
Opportunity Management
1 check
self-check
Director, Deal Desk
Deal Desk & Approvals
1 check
self-check
VP Partners & Alliances
Partner & Channel
1 check
self-check
1 person is signing from outside: Grace Abbott, Internal Audit.
The most recent checks
Verdict, method, and the two teams the platform compared to decide whether the check was independent.
VC-B-0005
BEN-002-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-002
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Driver reconciliation, volume and rate decomposed
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0020
BEN-010-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-010
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Driver reconciliation, volume and rate decomposed
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0081
BEN-038-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-038
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Driver reconciliation, volume and rate decomposed
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0023
BEN-011-2026Q2
labor-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-011
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Driver reconciliation, volume and rate decomposed
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0084
BEN-039-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-039
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Ledger tie-out to the account and cost center balance
Ana Duarte, Group Financial Controller
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0142
BEN-073-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-073
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Ledger tie-out to the account and cost center balance
Ana Duarte, Group Financial Controller
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0159
BEN-080-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-080
Signed inside Finance, which authored the baseline. more
method: Driver reconciliation, volume and rate decomposed
Marta Alvarez, Cost Accounting Manager
checking team: Finance
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
self-check
VC-B-0148
BEN-076-2026Q2
outsourced-cost · 2026-Q2 · baseline BL-076
Signed outside Finance, which authored the baseline. This one counts as independent.
method: Sample re-performance against the posted journal
Grace Abbott, Internal Audit
checking team: Internal Audit
authoring team: Finance
partially verified
independent
partially verified 167 · held 25 · verified 23 · did not hold 20 · partially held 16. The positions being checked
What it would take to move this number
The plan that ranks the unchecked positions and names a party against as many of them as declared capacity allows. more
If every assignment completed
39.2%
122 of 311 checks
Projection. Nothing here has happened.
Assigning a check does not raise the figure at the top of this page. It moves only when an independent record is written. The order of work, who would do it, and the ceiling
Actions
What is waiting on a person
A verification count is worth nothing if the checker sits inside the team that wrote the thing. more
465
benefit lines carry no verification check
190 of 655 lines have been checked by somebody named. more
189
checks were signed by the team that authored the subject
The product used to report these as verifications. more
148
strategy positions have never been checked by anybody
61 of 209 positions carry an outcome check. more
61
subject class where not one check is independent
Strategy positions. Every check in this class came from inside the authoring team, so the class carries no independent assurance at all.
Operations
What this desk is allowed to start
A surface that only reports is not operable. more
Trigger and bound
This surface records who checked what, which team they sit in, and whether that makes the check independent of the author. more
Live observability
What the record shows right now
Every verification check on the record, split 2 ways by whether the checker sits outside the authoring team. more
Current distribution
251 checks
Independent6225%
Self-check18975%
Is policy and strategy coming to fruition
Whether the written intent is holding here
No, and the product says so. more
Not holding on the record
The written intent is that a verification means somebody outside the team looked. 62 of 251 checks meet that test, which is 24.7%. 57 teams sign checks against 56 authoring teams. more
What independence means here
A self-check is a check signed inside the team that authored the thing being checked. more