How Orion Ensures Global Mobility Programs Stay Audit-Ready All Year

When it comes to relocation tax compliance and payroll alignment, audit season isn’t a season—it’s a mindset.

At Orion Mobility, we know that staying compliant and audit-ready isn’t just about scrambling at year-end. It’s about building systems, checks, and workflows that keep your mobility program clean, consistent, and defensible all year long. 

Why Audit-Readiness Matters

Mobility-related tax issues are some of the most commonly flagged items during corporate audits and reviews, especially when multi-jurisdictional payroll, gross-ups, and relocation expenses are involved.

Audit readiness protects your organization from:

  • Payroll tax penalties

  • W-2 reissuance headaches

  • Budget bloat from overpayments or duplicate reimbursements

  • Risk to your employer brand from poor employee experiences

The best time to prepare for an audit is before you need to.

How Orion Keeps You Audit-Ready, Always

Orion builds audit-readiness into your process with five key capabilities:

  1. Smart Data Collection from Day One: We eliminate manual guesswork by capturing expense and tax data directly from employees, vendors, and systems in real-time. This includes mobile tools for receipt capture, automated expense categorization, and digital audit trails for every relocation file—so nothing slips through the cracks.

  2. Built-In Gross-Up Logic That Adapts to Jurisdictional Complexity: Whether it's a cross-border assignment or a multi-state U.S. move, Orion’s tax engine applies the correct gross-up methodology—no spreadsheets required. It supports flat, marginal, and inverse methods while accounting for state-specific rules.

  3. Integrated Payroll Alignment and Reconciliation: Our platform generates reconciliation-ready payroll files and ensures relocation earnings are correctly coded, transferred, and tracked before final reports are due. This includes seamless file delivery to payroll partners.

  4. Automated Policy Compliance & Threshold Checks: We ensure transactions follow your policy design and financial rules. Our system auto-checks for exception approvals, tracks airfare and housing limits, and flags discrepancies before reporting or reimbursement, preventing costly overspending.

  5. Real-Time Reporting & Audit Documentation: Every action taken within Orion is time-stamped and stored, providing you with audit-ready records instantly. You'll always have PDF relocation summaries for every transferee, alongside real-time dashboards for management review.

Final Takeaway: Audit-readiness isn’t an event. It’s a habit. By building it into your process, you don't have to panic in Q4. Orion Mobility gives HR, mobility, and finance teams the tools they need to move talent efficiently and defend every dollar.

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