Audit Domain SME (Expert)
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£516 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The role of Audit Domain SME (Expert) involves providing expertise in financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany, focusing on governance, risk, compliance, and workflow. The position requires the individual to analyze and standardize audit workflows and controls, translating them into a prioritized product backlog for engineering teams. The role is critical in ensuring that audit processes are compliant and effectively communicated to stakeholders. This is a 6-month contract based in London with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deeply understand and compare US, UK, and Germany audit processes, including planning, execution, evidence handling, review, reporting, and sign-off, along with local regulatory and professional standards.
- Identify commonalities and justified regional differences, and define a standardized global future-state audit process with regional overlays where required.
- Translate standardized audit processes into well-structured epics, features, and granular user stories, complete with acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done.
- Prioritize backlog items based on audit risk, regulatory impact, practitioner value, and platform scalability, not just feature completeness.
- Ensure user stories clearly express auditor intent, judgment points, evidence expectations, and compliance outcomes, enabling engineering teams to build with minimal ambiguity.
Key Skills:
- Audit Domain Expertise: Financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany
- Business Analysis
- User story creation
- Requirement elicitation
Salary (Rate): £516 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Role Title: Audit Domain SME (Expert)
Contract duration: 6 months
Location: London- 2 days onsite
Rate range: £516 per day all inc. (PAYE through Umbrella)
JOB DETAILS
CA/Audit Background/Domain-> Information Security-> Governance Risk and Compliance, Audits, Workflow
Must have skills:
-Audit Domain Expertise: Financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany
-Business Analysis
-User story creation
-Requirement elicitation
A senior audit-domain Product Owner with hands-on understanding of financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany, including regulatory, methodological, and practice-level variations. This role analyses country-specific audit workflows, controls, documentation, and compliance requirements, abstracts and standardizes them, and defines a harmonized future-state global audit operating model.
The role owns translation of this future-state model into a clear, prioritized product backlog, breaking down complex audit processes into epics, features, and implementation-ready user stories with unambiguous acceptance criteria. Acting as the bridge between auditors, regulatory stakeholders, and engineering teams, the individual ensures that every user story is auditor-intent driven, regulator-aware, testable, and traceable, enabling incremental delivery of a globally consistent, compliant audit platform.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (EXPLICITLY HIGHLIGHTED FOR THIS ROLE)
Multi-country audit understanding:
Deeply understand and compare US, UK, and Germany audit processes, including planning, execution, evidence handling, review, reporting, and sign-off, along with local regulatory and professional standards.
Process standardization & future state design:
Identify commonalities and justified regional differences, and define a standardized global future-state audit process with regional overlays where required.
User story & backlog ownership:
Translate standardized audit processes into well-structured epics, features, and granular user stories, complete with acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done.
Prioritization with audit lens:
Prioritize backlog items based on audit risk, regulatory impact, practitioner value, and platform scalability, not just feature completeness.
Audit-to-engineering translation:
Ensure user stories clearly express auditor intent, judgment points, evidence expectations, and compliance outcomes, enabling engineering teams to build with minimal ambiguity.
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.