Case Study: Société Générale achieves integrated, standardized global audits and enhanced risk transparency with MetricStream RADAR

Integrating and Standardizing Global Internal Audits and Risk Assessments

Société Générale, a global financial services group, faced fragmented internal audit operations—1,500 auditors across 101 teams in 50 countries using different processes, systems, and scattered spreadsheets—making risk assessment, audit planning, and regulatory responses slow and inconsistent. Rising complexity and regulatory pressure led the bank to create a centralized global internal audit department to standardize methodologies, tools, and processes.

Using a three-fold strategy and MetricStream’s RADAR solution, the bank standardized risk language, centralized audit mission and recommendation data, deployed common templates, and built a knowledge repository. The initiative delivered a consolidated enterprise view of risk that improved audit planning and prioritization, standardized audits worldwide, accelerated recommendation follow-up (accessible to 15,000 auditees in 15 languages), produced richer management dashboards, and drove broad adoption of shared methodologies.

Societe Generale

Pierre Josse

Head of Internal Audit Tools, Trainings and Methodologies