Case Study: Leading Energy and Utility Company achieves rapid fraud detection and scalable audit efficiencies with Arbutus Software

Leading Energy and Utility Company - Customer Case Study

Leading Energy and Utility Company, a worldwide energy and utilities group of ~7,000 employees and $19B+ in assets, faced complex fraud and control risks across corporate credit cards and vendor master data fed from multiple disparate systems. The internal audit team needed a scalable, repeatable way to examine hundreds of thousands of transactions and master records to detect out-of-policy purchases and control breakdowns, so they turned to Arbutus Software and its Arbutus Analyzer solution.

Using Arbutus Software’s Arbutus Analyzer, the audit team analyzed an entire year of data — 250,000+ credit card transactions reduced to 2,000 records for further investigation — and examined 750,000+ vendor master records to surface 160 high‑risk employee/vendor matches. The tool cut weeks of work to hours, exposed issues such as personal purchases, outdated employee status, multiple cards per employee and excessive limits, and enabled ongoing monitoring and timely remediation to strengthen controls.