Worked Walkthrough: verify a bank-change request
Process a bank-change request with verification and approval controls intact.
A vendor requests that tomorrow’s payment be routed to a new bank account and says the old account should no longer be used. Separate the request, the verification, and the approval. The trap is to let a familiar thread and a plausible business story substitute for independent verification. Before Email looks familiar, AP is under time pressure, temptation is to update the record and keep the payment run moving. After Bank-change request becomes a control event with verified callback, documented evidence, and second sign-off. 1. Flag the control event Treat any destination-account change as high risk, even when it arrives…
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