“The vendor-tracing module assumed more log access than my firm actually had, so I had to improvise with screenshots. The sampling worksheets still transferred cleanly into our Q3 KYC application review.”
Niall P.
West Dean teaching yard · GB
Audit the application.Then audit the money that followed.
Identity Yard Grid is a studio for people who financially audit KYC verification applications. You leave with sampling worksheets, vendor-trace maps, and a habit of reconciling onboarding events to ledgers — not another slide pack about “identity.”
Cohort 07 meets in remote rooms from West Sussex. One primary path: the KYC Application Audit Lab.
Flagship lab
KYC Application Audit Lab
Six modules that treat a verification product as a financial-reporting surface: what the app claimed happened, what the vendor attested, and what the general ledger actually booked. You work synthetic UK case packs — never live customer files.
From last winter’s rooms
Notebooks, not slogans
★★★★☆
Used the Control Ledger page as a spine for a second-line paper. The “event-to-fee” reconciling drill was the piece my team kept.
What the yard actually drills
Sampling without theatre
You size a KYC application population the way a financial auditor would: strata, exceptions, and a written reason for every skip. No “look at five happy paths and call it done.”
Money follows identity events
Passports scanned in a vendor UI are not evidence that a fee, a reserve, or a blocked payout was booked correctly. We teach the join.
Vendor seals, read cold
SOC-style letters and IDV certificates get a finding language, not a halo.
GB-shaped paper
Write-ups that a UK second line can file without translating American banking slang.
Limitation, named
We do not grant professional-body credit. That is printed on the lab page on purpose.
Four desks in the yard
01
Scope desk
Name the application, the vendors behind it, and the financial assertions you are actually testing.
02
Sample desk
Pull onboarding cases with a documented method. Record why a file was in or out.
03
Trace desk
Walk an identity event into logs, tickets, and — when it exists — a cash movement.
04
Finding desk
Write a control gap that a finance partner can argue with, not a vague “process improvement.”
Field notes
Recent writing from the benches
Bring a live control question, not a brochure request.
If you are scoping a financial audit of KYC verification applications for a UK firm, write to the desk. We answer with lab fit, not a sales funnel.