Audit support
SOC readiness bookkeeping
SOC readiness bookkeeping from Finbryn keeps billing, revenue and vendor-payment records reconciled while your EU company prepares for a customer-driven service-organisation examination, common when selling to US or international enterprise customers. Our accounting team tracks finance-related evidence requests and coordinates with your security or compliance lead; an independent audit firm performs the examination itself.
Auditor request list
Illustrative client · August 2026
EUR
- Trial balance and general ledger exportDone
- Bank confirmations and statementsDone
- Receivables and payables listingsDone
- Fixed asset register with additionsIn progress
- Accruals and prepayments supportNext
Illustrative. An example of the document, not a client's figures.
An ask that comes from the customer, not the regulator
Nothing in EU or national law requires a service-organisation examination. The request almost always comes from a customer, most often a US or international enterprise buyer running its own vendor-risk checklist before signing a contract. Once that request lands, the clock on preparing for it starts regardless of where the pressure came from.
Part of what the examiner tests sits inside the accounting function: whether billing matches signed contracts, whether revenue is recognised the same way month after month, whether a payment leaving a vendor account went through the approvals your policy describes. We hold that slice steady across the whole review window, since the period usually runs several months and a gap discovered halfway through counts against you.
A tracker, not a guess
Examiners issue evidence requests on their own schedule, often through a shared portal. We log each finance-related item, pull the underlying report or document, and note who supplied it and when, so nothing gets answered twice or missed entirely. Where a request needs context outside the ledger, such as how a system access list is maintained, we pass it to whoever on your team owns that answer instead of improvising one.
The boundary we hold
We do not sit for the examination and we do not produce the report at the end of it. An independent audit firm carries out that work under the relevant attestation standard, using the evidence assembled here alongside whatever your security team supplies separately. This work runs alongside internal controls documentation, since a control an examiner asks about usually needs to already be written down before the evidence behind it makes sense to a reviewer.
Questions
Frequently asked questions: SOC readiness bookkeeping
Do you get us the examination report?
No. That report is issued by an independent audit firm under the relevant attestation standard. We keep the financial records and evidence behind it organised.
Why would an EU company need this if it is not an EU requirement?
It is usually a customer requirement, most often from US or international enterprise buyers, rather than something EU or national law asks for. We support the underlying bookkeeping either way.
Do you coordinate with our security team or the examiner directly?
We coordinate primarily with your internal security or compliance lead on financial evidence requests, and can join a call with the examining firm when a finance-specific question needs a direct answer.
Does this replace GDPR or data-protection compliance work?
No. A service-organisation examination and your GDPR obligations are separate. We support the financial-evidence side of the examination only.
How long does readiness work usually take before an examination?
Most engagements run eight to twelve weeks depending on how many controls need documentation from scratch, scoped against your target examination window rather than fitted to a fixed timeline that ignores how much groundwork already exists.
Do you perform the SOC examination or issue the report?
No. An independent, credentialed audit firm you engage separately performs the examination and issues the report. We keep the financial records and evidence behind it organized and current.
What is the difference between this and general bookkeeping?
The bookkeeping itself is the same discipline, kept to a documentation and consistency standard that holds up when an examiner asks for evidence on demand rather than at month end.
Who reviews the work before it reaches us?
Every deliverable under sOC readiness bookkeeping is reviewed by a senior reviewer before it reaches you. You keep access to the underlying file at every stage, so nothing about the work happens somewhere you cannot see it.
What is included in sOC readiness bookkeeping?
SOC readiness bookkeeping covers books and financial records kept current and reconciled through the examination window and billing, revenue-recognition and vendor-payment records organized for evidence requests. The exact scope is agreed and set out in writing before work starts, so you know precisely what is and is not covered before the first deliverable arrives.
Related services
- Audit supportInternal controls documentationFinancial process controls, such as who approves a payment or reconciles an account, written down and walked through with your team, so an auditor or funder can see how the numbers are actually produced.
- Audit supportWorking paper preparationSupporting schedules and reconciliations built the way an auditor expects to see them, cross-referenced to the trial balance, so review comments come back with fewer open questions.
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Next step
Talk to the team that would run your books
A short call covers your setup, your software and what a first month would look like. You get a written scope and price after it.