The Saintilco Sponsored Award Review is an independent set of six working documents for organisations running sponsored awards in Workday Financials. It tests whether effort certifications, award setup, cost transfers and supporting records can be produced and reconciled before an auditor asks.
Built around what federal audits actually find, not around what is interesting to configure. Written for grants administration, finance and internal audit.
Licensed to your institution rather than per seat. Two of them are the objects the other documents tell you to build, already built.
Forty-four scored checks across seven domains, weighted to ninety-seven points. The checks take about twenty minutes and the workbook is about an hour end to end, including the ranked gap list it returns. Faster per question than the free health check, because it assumes you already know your own configuration rather than sending you to look.
An eight-question defensibility test, a two-hour self-sampling protocol, and a printable worksheet. Effort is where the money is in almost every published finding.
Your tenant against your signed rate agreement, rate by rate and date by date. It then prices the gap in both directions, because under-recovery is a real loss nobody books.
The eight blocks a one-award report has to contain, a field-level source table, and six acceptance tests. Written to be handed to whoever builds your reports.
Block, Warn and Route design, rules by award tier, a six-test protocol, and a rollout that does not stop the institution. The companion file carries drafted wording for all thirteen rules plus the five rollout announcements, editable, because these get pasted into config and into email.
The first seventy-two hours, how to answer a sampled item, and the six ways institutions make it worse. The log counts requests per item and flags the third one, because three requests on one item is a finding forming.
Here is a full run on a specimen institution six weeks out from a sponsor review.
| Weighted score | 50 of 97 |
| Checks answered | 44 of 44 |
| Percentage | 52% |
| Critical checks failed | 4 |
| Critical checks passed with no evidence held | 3 |
| Band | At risk |
Fifty-two percent sounds survivable until you read the two rows above the band. The workbook names effort substantiation as the weakest domain rather than averaging it into a number that reads fine.
Every check has a second column asking whether you hold the evidence today. A critical check marked Pass with nothing behind it counts as an exposure, identically to a failure.
Answer every check Pass with no evidence held and the workbook returns one hundred percent and the band At risk. That contradiction is deliberate, and it is exactly the conversation an auditor starts.
Every figure in the effort pack traces to a published federal audit report you can pull yourself.
| $7,469,306 unsupported, $73,515 unallowable | HHS OIG A-04-20-03583, 10 May 2024 |
| 6 of 31 sampled items failed, $42,578 questioned | HHS OIG A-07-20-05127, 1 June 2023 |
| Review of NIH award recipients running through FY2027 | HHS OIG work plan item SRS-A-25-014 |
The work plan item describes the population of institutions holding NIH awards, not a count of institutions under audit, and the document says so in those words. Nothing here derives from any client engagement or from any Workday training material.
This is not an audit and nothing in it produces an opinion. It tells you what an auditor would look for and whether you could answer, which is a different and cheaper thing.
If the answer turns out to be that your award setup has to be rebuilt, these documents will say so plainly. I do not bid on the rebuild, which is the whole reason the finding can be trusted.
Start with the free health check if you are not sure this is your problem yet.
The health check has sixteen checks and no evidence dimension. The Sponsored Award Review has forty-four and asks about evidence on every one, which is the whole difference between knowing and being able to prove it.
Pay by card or bank transfer and the six documents arrive by email within one business day. If your finance office needs a PO and a W-9 before it can raise payment, ask for an invoice instead.
Intuit handles the payment and your card details never reach me. Bank transfer is offered at checkout and is usually the easier route for an institutional purchase. Thirty days to change your mind, no questions.
Not sure yet? Take fifteen minutes first and I will tell you if this is the wrong thing to buy.