Regulators & Auditors

The ICCE intention is to shift temporary-labour fulfilment and insight from a process of competitive risk appetite and retrospective reconstruction of delayed and fragmented records into a space where the direct examination of a coherent, attributable single thread of market evidence is possible through an engineered, commercially attractive and transparent operating environment which balances fair treatment of individuals, tax compliance and related outcomes.

What ICCE provides

Regulators and auditors need to be able to establish what actually happened inside a temporary-labour transaction without first assembling a position from separate supplier, timesheet, employment, payroll and payment records. Where those facts are distributed across different organisations, scrutiny can begin with reconstruction rather than examination, making chronology harder to establish and accountability more difficult to locate before substantive judgement even starts.

ICCE is designed to create a connected evidential thread through normal operation. Relevant participant actions, employment, work activity, payroll and statutory treatment, payment outcomes, exceptions and corrections remain attributable to the transaction and can be presented through permissioned, scope-specific evidence views for the organisation, project, period, worker population or issue being examined.

The result is clear accountability, transaction-level scrutiny and less reconstruction. ICCE does not replace regulatory, audit or assurance judgement; it provides a stronger evidential starting point from which that independent judgement can be exercised.

Clear accountability

Transaction-level scrutiny

Less reconstruction

How this is achieved

The ICCE system creates the evidential thread before scrutiny begins. The employment route, operating activity and resulting financial outcomes are processed in a way that preserves their relationship to one another, allowing later examination to begin from a coherent record instead of requiring separate organisations to reconstruct the transaction first.

ICCE Controlled Employment

ICCE Controlled Employment places ICCE-routed temporary work inside a clear PAYE employment environment and keeps that employment position connected to the engagement, worker rights, payroll and supporting records.

This makes the employment route used in practice materially easier to establish and gives scrutiny a clearer basis for examining worker treatment and employment responsibility.

ICCE Transaction Core

ICCE Transaction Evidence preserves the connected history created as the engagement progresses.

Participant actions, work, employment, time, payroll, statutory treatment, payment, project context, exceptions and corrections remain attributable within the same evidential thread, allowing the reviewer to examine how the outcome was formed rather than receiving only a final declaration about it.

ICCE Reporting & Intelligence

ICCE Reporting & Intelligence produces permissioned transaction-level and aggregated views from that same record.

The relevant accountable party can provide evidence for a defined population, period, project or issue while maintaining traceability back to the activity supporting the report and without turning the report itself into a competing source of truth.

The resulting model makes the market easier to scrutinise because evidential quality is created through normal operation. Regulators and auditors receive a stronger starting point for independent judgement, while the same controls also support the fair-treatment, tax and commercial outcomes that make the route valuable to the organisations expected to use it.

The Cubes above are the system capabilities most directly relevant to regulator and auditor value creation within ICCE. For the complete architecture and full Cube set, view the ICCE System Architecture.

Evidence and outcomes

For regulators and auditors, the value of ICCE becomes tangible in a coherent evidential thread formed through temporary-labour transaction processing. Participant activity, employment, work, payroll, statutory treatment, payment, exceptions and corrections retain their relationships throughout the engagement, creating evidence that supports clear accountability, transaction-level scrutiny and less retrospective reconstruction.

Clear accountability

Evidence identifies the relevant participants, their roles, the engagement and employment route attached to the work, and the worker-facing processes connected to it.

Regulators and auditors can establish who was responsible for which part of the transaction and examine the employment position actually used rather than beginning with disconnected organisational assertions.

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Transaction-level scrutiny

Finalised working information remains connected through to gross pay, PAYE, National Insurance, statutory records and later payroll corrections.

Scrutiny can therefore move into the treatment of the individual transaction and examine how the work recorded became the payroll and statutory outcome under review.

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Less reconstruction

Exceptions, challenges and corrections retain attribution, timestamps and linkage to earlier records, while reporting can be scoped to the relevant project, population, period or issue.

Reviewers receive a defined view that preserves the route back to source, reducing the amount of work required to assemble chronology and reconcile separate versions before substantive examination can begin.

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The outcome is direct examination of a coherent evidential thread of market activity. Regulators and auditors gain a stronger basis for examining employment, tax, worker-treatment and financial outcomes because those outcomes remain connected to the transaction processes that produced them.

Regulator & auditor participation

Regulators and auditors do not require a routine ICCE operating workspace. Their interaction begins when a regulatory, audit, assurance or investigative requirement defines the organisation, project, reporting period, worker population or issue that needs to be examined.

The regulator or auditor therefore has very little platform administration to learn. Their role is to define the scope, examine the evidence and exercise independent judgement; ICCE's role is to make the underlying evidence structured, attributable and readily capable of examination.

The relevant accountable ICCE participant produces a scope-specific evidence pack or audit view covering the required activity.

That output can include supply-line context, engagement and employment records, payroll and statutory outcomes, payment evidence, exceptions, disputes, corrections and the supporting references needed to follow findings back through the transaction history.

Access to ICCE

ICCE is seeking regulatory, audit and assurance feedback on evidential scope, attribution, reporting boundaries, source traceability and the practical usability of outputs produced for independent scrutiny. Early engagement will help test whether evidence can be examined proportionately and effectively without requiring reviewers to participate in the operating environment itself.

ICCE intends to engage selected regulatory, audit and assurance organisations as the evidence model develops. Participation can help shape the reporting structures, disclosure boundaries and review pathways needed for credible examination while preserving the independence of regulatory and audit judgement. Interested organisations are encouraged to register through the Stakeholder Interest form.

Stakeholder Early Access

Stakeholder Access is for organisations that want to understand ICCE more closely before general release. It provides a controlled route to see the current product direction, understand the stakeholder experience relevant to their role and explore what practical participation could look like in their own operating environment.

Stakeholder access