United Kingdom filing seasons collide with school holidays and year-end leave. A regulatory filing audit app cannot invent coverage, but it can make absence visible.
Name a primary and a deputy per severity band
High-severity exceptions need a human who can decide within a day. Medium items can wait for a deputy with a documented playbook. Low items belong in a digest — not in a personal inbox that goes quiet for a fortnight.
Write the handoff note inside the tool
External spreadsheets drift. Put the standing instruction — who covers which entities — next to the queue so temporary owners do not hunt Slack history.
Rehearse once
During Ledger Assurance Path dry runs we ask one primary to step away for a half-day. The gaps that appear are cheaper to fix in rehearsal than on a Friday before a portal deadline.