Customer story
McKonly & Asbury
Waterschap Scheldestromen (Zeeland Water Board) is a Dutch regional water authority responsible for water management, flood protection, and wastewater treatment in Zeeland. Headquartered in Middelburg, this public-sector organization ensures safe embankments, clean water, and navigable roads across the region, serving residents and businesses through sustainable and efficient water governance.
This success story is in collaboration with the Internal Audit team at Waterschap Scheldestromen (Zeeland Water Board) in the Netherlands.
Waterschap Scheldestromen (Zeeland Water Board), a public sector organization responsible for managing water infrastructure and environmental services in the Netherlands, identified the need to formalize and streamline its internal audit processes. With increasing responsibility over compliance reporting and internal validations, the requirements for more standardized and efficient methods became clearer than ever. The organization needed a solution that would both elevate internal audit capabilities and enable cross-functional collaboration over time.
“I’ve been using DataSnipper for four years now, and from my experience, performing the audit goes about two times as fast. And for the review, which I also do, it’s five times faster. A review that cost me a full day — with DataSnipper, it only takes one hour.”
DataSnipper was implemented as a core part of the internal audit framework from day one. Audit scoping, execution, and review processes were centralized in Excel using DataSnipper’s automation features. This allowed the team to work faster, maintain complete traceability, and generate more standardized documentation.
Validation Snips and Exception Snips are used to test and document controls, while Document Matching helps streamline sample testing by automatically linking transactions to their supporting documents. Review time has been significantly reduced—procedures that once took a full day now take just an hour.
DocumentMatching is used to link large invoice samples to their supportingdocumentation, significantly reducing manual effort and improving traceability.
PDFs of financial statements are annotated in Excel using Snips, enabling easy preparation of insights and commentary for stakeholder meetings.
To meet the unique needs of a government organization, a structured compliance checklist was developed by the IA team at Waterschap Scheldestromen. Legal frameworks are imported into Excel, specific articles are extracted using Text Snips, and compliance is documented clearly below eachrule. This method ensures transparent reporting and aligns with public sector expectations for internal audit rigor.
Internal audit reviews that previously took a full day now take just one hour, resulting in up to 87% efficiency gains.
Legal articles are linked using Text Snips to create structured, reproducible compliance checklists - enabling precise documentation with reduced risk of manual errors.
The team adopted DataSnipper quickly through Excel-native workflows, with audit procedures completed twice as fast and usage expanding across the finance department.
