Fraud Detection & Financial Controls Monitoring

During the first 2-3 months, you'll calibrate rules and thresholds based on your organization's actual patterns. Keboola allows iterative tuning – for example, refining duplicate payment logic to consider invoice dates and reference numbers, dramatically reducing false hits. Machine learning assigns risk scores so you focus on top 10-20% highest-risk alerts. Most clients reach steady state of 5-15 meaningful alerts weekly with false positive rates below 20% – very manageable workload providing enormous value. The alternative – no monitoring – means zero false positives but guaranteed missed fraud costing far more than investigating occasional false alerts.

ERP controls are valuable but basic, siloed within one system, and often can be overridden. Keboola operates at a different level – correlating data across multiple systems (ERP, HR, banking, procurement, expenses) which individual systems cannot do. It provides detective controls analyzing patterns over time, while ERPs focus on preventive controls at entry. Think of it as an intelligence layer above all systems. It also incorporates external data (sanctions lists, fraud pattern libraries, background checks) and applies ML models trained on industry fraud cases. This dramatically expands both scope (what systems are monitored) and depth (what patterns can be detected) beyond default ERP features

Position it correctly: as protecting the organization and honest employees from bad actors. Most employees appreciate strong controls that ensure fairness and catch their honest mistakes before they become problems. Automated monitoring feels more impartial than subjective human oversight. Be transparent about what's monitored (policy compliance and unusual transactions, not trivial performance issues), provide training on rules, and ensure consistent application. In practice, after initial adjustment, continuous monitoring becomes accepted as normal operating procedure – like security cameras in stores. Good employees appreciate the protection; only those with bad intentions remain worried. The morale risk of not having controls – fraud occurring, regulatory problems, or layoffs after financial crises – far exceeds the cultural adjustment of implementing fair, transparent monitoring.