Senior Auditor
Posted 2 weeks ago by PRIMUS Global Solutions (PRIMUS UK & Europe)
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Auditor focuses on leveraging audit domain expertise to analyze and standardize financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany. The individual will act as a Product Owner, translating complex audit workflows into a prioritized product backlog while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. This position requires collaboration with auditors, regulatory stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver a globally consistent audit platform.
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.
- Refine stories continuously based on auditor feedback, regulatory changes, and delivery learnings to evolve the global audit platform iteratively.
Key Skills:
- Audit Domain Expertise: Financial audit processes across the US, UK, and Germany.
- Business Analysis.
- User story creation.
- Requirement elicitation.
- Hands-on understanding of regulatory, methodological, and practice-level variations in audits.
- Ability to translate complex processes into structured product backlogs.
- Experience in prioritizing based on audit risk and regulatory impact.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role Title: Audit Domain SME (Expert) 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.
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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.
- CONTINUOUS REFINEMENT: Refine stories continuously based on auditor feedback, regulatory changes, and delivery learnings to evolve the global audit platform iteratively.