Audit Domain SME (Expert) -6months-London
Kirtana consulting is looking for Audit Domain SME (Expert) for 6months rolling contract in London.
Job description:
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.
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