Audit Analytics and Evidence Design Director

The mandate

This commission will redesign how audit analytics contribute to sufficient, appropriate evidence. It is not a catalogue of dashboards or scripts. The project must connect analytical procedures to audit objectives, population completeness, exception investigation, contradictory evidence and final conclusions, then prove the method through a bounded pilot.

Five contracted artifacts are an analytics-evidence standard, data-reliability protocol, test-design library, three-engagement pilot report, and quality-and-transfer handbook. Every analytical test must state what assertion it addresses, what it cannot establish and what human follow-up remains necessary.

The five delivery gates close after 4, 9, 14, 20 and 24 weeks. The Audit Methodology Sponsor accepts standards and protocol; the Quality Director accepts the library and pilot; the Chief Audit Executive delegate accepts transfer. Acceptance requires source reconciliation, reproducible tests, documented exceptions, reviewer sign-off and internal reuse.

The client will provide approved extracts, population owners, relevant control descriptions, audit objectives, secure analysis access and three pilot engagements. The consultant will not cleanse source records, operate continuous monitoring or issue findings. Incomplete data will change the planned procedure or conclusion, not be hidden by technical transformation.

What you will own

• Define when analytics serve risk assessment, population testing, substantive evidence, anomaly identification or corroboration.
• Establish data-reliability work covering source authority, completeness, accuracy, transformation, access and period cut-off.
• Create test-design templates linking audit objective, assertion, population, logic, threshold, expected exception and follow-up.
• Build a reviewer protocol that can reproduce outputs and trace every conclusion to investigated evidence.
• Pilot the standard on three engagements with differing evidence needs and record design changes and limitations.
• Measure coverage, precision, investigation burden, evidence contribution and conclusion impact rather than test volume.
• Specify secure retention, version control, parameter change and workpaper requirements for analytical procedures.
• Transfer the library through an internal team-led test design, execution and review completed independently.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 14 years in internal or statutory audit and audit analytics, including Director responsibility for evidence methodology.
• Chartered Accountant membership with ICAI in good standing, supported by CISA, CIA or a recognised analytics-assurance credential.
• Evidence of an analytical procedure that changed an audit conclusion only after exceptions were properly investigated.
• Deep knowledge of audit assertions, sampling alternatives, population completeness, data lineage, contradictory evidence and documentation.
• A case where you rejected a technically impressive analysis because it did not address the audit objective.
• Experience building reviewer reproducibility and quality control into analytic workpapers.
• Demonstrated transfer through internal design and review of a new audit test, not presentation-led training alone.

Working terms and boundaries

• The six-month project is delivered five days weekly through five formal milestones and named acceptance owners.
• Scope includes evidence standards, design library, three pilots and transfer; data remediation, monitoring operation and report issuance are excluded.
• The consultant can recommend procedures but cannot approve audit findings or override the engagement leader's conclusion.
• Approved data, owner access, control information, audit objectives, secure environments and pilot teams are required client inputs.
• Completion requires reproducible pilots, closed critical quality defects and one independently designed and reviewed internal test.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 12 October 2026. Mandate reference AUD-CON-2026-BLR-25.