Manage GRC Program

EMP Trust’s GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) solution is a comprehensive enterprise platform designed to manage the complete lifecycle of corporate policies, assess and respond to risks, and report compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements across your organization. The solution can be deployed across your entire enterprise, providing a centralized framework for managing governance, risk, and compliance activities that traditionally might be handled through disconnected systems, spreadsheets, or manual processes. The GRC solution addresses the governance component by providing tools to establish, communicate, and enforce corporate policies and procedures, ensuring that all employees understand and adhere to organizational standards and expectations. For risk management, the platform enables organizations to systematically identify, assess, prioritize, and respond to risks across various domains including HR compliance, employment eligibility verification, data privacy, and regulatory compliance. The compliance component provides comprehensive tools for monitoring adherence to internal controls and regulatory requirements, generating audit reports, and demonstrating compliance to internal stakeholders and external regulators. By integrating these three critical functions—governance, risk, and compliance—into a unified platform, EMP Trust’s GRC solution eliminates silos, reduces redundant efforts, and provides leadership with a holistic view of the organization’s compliance posture and risk exposure. This integrated approach is particularly valuable for organizations operating in highly regulated industries or those with complex compliance obligations across multiple jurisdictions.

EMP Trust’s GRC solutions are designed with flexibility and configurability at their core, enabling business users to adapt the platform according to their organization’s unique governance, risk, and compliance processes without requiring extensive custom development or IT resources. The platform provides robust configuration capabilities that allow organizations to define their own workflows, approval processes, risk assessment methodologies, and compliance frameworks based on their specific industry requirements, organizational structure, and risk tolerance. Business users—not just IT personnel—can configure EMP Trust solutions through intuitive interfaces that don’t require programming knowledge, empowering HR and compliance professionals to adapt the system as their needs evolve. A key advantage of EMP Trust’s approach is the out-of-the-box integration capabilities with existing ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems), HRIS (Human Resource Information Systems), and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, which means that the GRC platform can seamlessly connect with your organization’s existing technology infrastructure. These integrations ensure that GRC processes are embedded within existing HR workflows rather than creating separate, parallel processes that employees must navigate. For example, policy acknowledgments can be automatically triggered when employees are onboarded through your HRIS, risk assessments can be initiated based on data from your ERP system, and compliance reporting can pull data from multiple integrated systems to provide a comprehensive view. This tailoring capability ensures that EMP Trust’s GRC solution adapts to your organization’s way of working rather than forcing your organization to change processes to fit the software.

EMP Trust provides a comprehensive suite of resources designed to help organizations maximize the value of their GRC solutions and continuously expand their governance, risk, and compliance capabilities. The resource library includes comprehensive documentation that covers all aspects of the GRC platform, from basic functionality to advanced configuration options, providing detailed technical specifications and step-by-step procedures for common tasks. The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) resources address common questions and challenges that organizations encounter when implementing and using GRC solutions, providing quick answers and troubleshooting guidance based on the collective experience of EMP Trust’s customer base. User guides are tailored to different roles within the organization—such as HR administrators, compliance officers, risk managers, and end users—ensuring that each stakeholder has access to relevant information for their specific responsibilities. Instructional videos provide visual, step-by-step demonstrations of key processes and features, which is particularly valuable for visual learners and for training new users who may be unfamiliar with GRC concepts or the EMP Trust platform. Perhaps most valuable is the GRC content library, which provides pre-built templates, policies, risk frameworks, and compliance checklists that organizations can adapt to their needs rather than creating everything from scratch. This content library draws on best practices from across industries and regulatory domains, giving organizations a head start in building their GRC programs. These resources collectively reduce the time and expertise required to implement and optimize GRC solutions, enabling organizations to achieve compliance faster and with less internal effort than would be required with platforms that provide only basic documentation.

EMP Trust’s reporting and dashboard capabilities provide users at every level of the organization with real-time visibility into HR issues and GRC initiatives, delivering the information they need to complete tasks and make informed decisions about governance, risk, and compliance matters. The dashboards offer a current view of your organization’s GRC posture, presenting key metrics, trends, and alerts in visually intuitive formats that allow users to quickly understand the status of compliance initiatives, identify emerging risks, and track progress toward governance objectives. These dashboards are role-based, meaning that executives see high-level strategic metrics about overall compliance posture and risk exposure, while compliance officers see detailed operational metrics about specific compliance programs, and individual managers see metrics relevant to their departments or areas of responsibility. The reporting capabilities go beyond standard dashboards to provide comprehensive, detailed reports that can be customized to meet specific stakeholder needs, whether for internal management reviews, board presentations, or external regulatory submissions. Reports can be generated on-demand or scheduled to run automatically at regular intervals, ensuring that stakeholders receive timely information without requiring manual effort to compile data. The reporting system can aggregate data from multiple sources across the integrated HR technology ecosystem, providing a comprehensive view that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with disconnected systems. Advanced filtering and drill-down capabilities allow users to move from high-level summaries to detailed transaction-level data, enabling root cause analysis when issues are identified. This comprehensive reporting and dashboard infrastructure transforms GRC from a reactive, compliance-focused activity into a proactive, strategic function that provides leadership with the insights needed to make informed decisions about risk tolerance, resource allocation, and strategic priorities.

Building a comprehensive GRC program with EMP Trust involves deploying the platform’s solutions across your enterprise to create an integrated framework for managing corporate policies, assessing and responding to risks, and ensuring compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements. The first component is policy lifecycle management, which involves creating, reviewing, approving, distributing, and tracking acknowledgment of corporate policies across the organization, ensuring that all employees have access to current policies and that the organization can demonstrate that employees have been informed of their obligations. The second component is risk assessment and management, which provides structured methodologies for identifying potential risks across various domains—such as employment eligibility verification, workplace safety, data privacy, and discrimination—assessing the likelihood and impact of those risks, and implementing controls or mitigation strategies to reduce risk to acceptable levels. The third component is compliance monitoring and reporting, which involves establishing controls to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies, continuously monitoring compliance status, and generating reports that demonstrate compliance to internal stakeholders and external regulators. The fourth component is audit management, which provides tools to plan, execute, and document internal audits of HR processes and compliance programs, track findings and remediation activities, and maintain audit trails that demonstrate the organization’s commitment to continuous improvement. The fifth component is integration with existing systems, ensuring that GRC processes are embedded within existing HR workflows through connections with ATS, HRIS, and ERP systems rather than creating separate processes. Together, these components create a comprehensive GRC program that transforms compliance from a reactive, checkbox activity into a strategic capability that protects the organization from risks while enabling business objectives.

EMP Trust’s GRC solution is specifically designed to address the unique compliance challenges that HR departments face in managing a complex web of federal, state, and local employment regulations, internal policies, and industry-specific requirements. HR departments must navigate compliance obligations related to employment eligibility verification (Form I-9 and E-Verify), equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour regulations, workplace safety requirements, benefits administration, data privacy and security, and numerous other regulatory domains that vary by jurisdiction and industry. The GRC solution provides a structured framework for managing these diverse compliance obligations within a single platform, eliminating the need for HR teams to juggle multiple disconnected systems or rely on manual tracking methods that are prone to errors and gaps. The platform includes pre-built compliance frameworks and content libraries that address common HR compliance requirements, giving organizations a foundation to build upon rather than starting from scratch. The solution’s policy management capabilities ensure that HR policies are consistently communicated, acknowledged, and enforced across the organization, reducing the risk of compliance violations due to employee ignorance or inconsistent application of policies. The risk assessment tools help HR departments identify and prioritize compliance risks based on factors such as the organization’s industry, geographic footprint, workforce composition, and historical compliance issues, enabling more strategic allocation of limited compliance resources. The audit and reporting capabilities provide the documentation needed to demonstrate compliance during government inspections, internal audits, or legal proceedings, which is critical for avoiding penalties and defending against claims. By providing these specialized capabilities within an integrated platform that connects with existing HR systems, EMP Trust’s GRC solution enables HR departments to manage compliance more efficiently and effectively than would be possible with general-purpose GRC tools not designed for HR’s specific needs.