7 Ways to Improve Visibility and Compliance Across Your Third-Party Services
A practical guide for Finance leaders
Every third-party services engagement relies on a supplier’s delivery team working alongside the business. To do the work, those teams are often given access to systems, data and premises. Yet unlike employees, who move through structured joiner, mover and leaver processes, they’re rarely onboarded and offboarded with the same consistency. Responsibility is often split across Procurement, IT, Facilities and the business, so access can remain in place long after an engagement has ended. Workers may also be classified incorrectly without anyone noticing.
This guide looks at how access, onboarding, offboarding and worker classification are governed across third-party services, from the start of an engagement to its close. It sets out seven practical ways Finance can work with Procurement and the wider business to bring this risk into view. Each section includes questions to help you test how exposed your organisation may be.
Inside the guide:
Why visibility of who is working on your behalf starts with how suppliers are selected
How to get worker classification right from the start
How to apply proportionate checks before work begins
How to maintain visibility of access to systems, data and premises
Why offboarding matters just as much as onboarding
How to keep an audit trail of every decision
How to give the board an accurate, evidenced view of third-party risk