Description & Requirements
The Manager, Blockchain Products & Internal Audit Methodology - Digital Assets leads the development and continuous improvement of blockchain products and scalable internal audit methodology. The role partners with engagement, technology, risk, and business stakeholders to turn emerging digital asset needs into practical tools, guidance, and solutions that support quality, consistency, and practice growth.
What You Will Do:
- Own the digital asset product lifecycle, including discovery, business-case development, design, testing, launch, adoption, enhancement, and retirement.
- Develop product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, success measures, release plans, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead workshops, interviews, workflow mapping, prototypes, data models, proofs of concept, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing.
- Evaluate build, buy, partner, and configure options and prepare business cases addressing value, effort, risk, and support needs.
- Build and maintain blockchain and digital asset internal audit methodology, including risk assessments, control objectives, audit programs, testing procedures, workpapers, evidence expectations, and quality review considerations.
- Support complex engagements and convert recurring needs into reusable guidance, training, accelerators, and product requirements.
- Lead product initiatives, governance, methodology, and stakeholder meetings; track scope, milestones, budgets, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions.
- Manage and coach Associate and Senior Associate team members and review work for quality and completion.
- Monitor market, technology, audit, and regulatory developments and represent the practice in relevant industry associations.
- Travel as required for business needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Five to nine years of relevant experience.
- Experience applying product development or software development lifecycle practices, including implementation, testing, release management, and adoption.
- Ability to design risk-based internal audit approaches, control objectives, procedures, and documentation for blockchain and digital asset activities.
- Knowledge of blockchain architecture, smart contracts, tokens, wallets, nodes, bridges, decentralized applications, on-chain transaction flows, custody models, and related controls.
- Experience managing roadmaps, backlogs, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, vendors, and stakeholders across concurrent initiatives.
- Ability to draft methodology and explain technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in an accounting or consulting firm, an internal audit function, or a digital asset risk and controls role.
- Experience developing audit methodology, risk and control frameworks, workpapers, or quality review processes.
- Experience with product management, prototyping, workflow design, blockchain analytics, digital asset subledgers, data management, or evidence evaluation.
- Experience with automated workflow, low-code, business process management, governance, risk, compliance, or audit-management systems.
- Experience with cloud computing, application programming interfaces, databases, data transformation, or analytics solutions.
- CPA, CIA, CISA, or another relevant audit, accounting, product, technology, or digital asset credential.
About Forvis Mazars, LLP
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