Internal Audits and Internal Financial Control testing for clients across India, South Africa, and Middle East Region
• Led and executed of multiple Internal Audit engagements, IFC testing for core business processes like ...see more
Internal Audits and Internal Financial Control testing for clients across India, South Africa, and Middle East Region
• Led and executed of multiple Internal Audit engagements, IFC testing for core business processes like Procurement to Pay, Hire to Retire, Robotics Process Automation, Presales, Sales Incentive Planning, Contract Management, Asset Management. Key deliverables include designing the Planning Meeting Document, Risk and Control Matrices, Gap Trackers and Internal Audit Reports gaps with recommendations and improvement opportunities
• Responsibilities held included: Project scoping, conducted pre-planning meetings, conducting process walkthroughs, documenting detailed as-is-process flows, risks and underlying internal and IT controls, performing data analytics and highlighting gaps in the current operations, serving as liaison between the business teams and management and proposing improvement opportunities and changes in the to-be state operations
• Led a team of 5+ resources and while handling delivery of multiple engagements across clients and geographies and ensured timely execution and delivery while acting as a key liaison between business teams, management and delivery team. Working closely with Audit & Assurance Management to support the Division’s mandates by leading activities such as Audit Committee & Stakeholder Relationships, Governance Documents, Resources, Performance, Knowledge and Assurance Coordination
• Developing engagement decks, including Board and Audit Committee Reporting packs, and discussing the key insights from the engagements with the Shareholders and Executive Leadership Team on a periodic basis.
• Engaging in follow up of actions committed by the Management to strengthen controls across the organization and assure that control environment is improved upon implementation of actions.
Led risk assessment workshops for technical and business support functions to facilitate development of comprehensive risk registers and prepared the bottom-up risk information reporting approach to prepare the process level risk register for reporting to Board of Directors and Senior Management
• Actively involved in business development initiatives starting at initial evaluation of requirements, developing answers to RFP, and final layout and collation of the finished product SOX IT General Control Testing and IT Application Controls testing for multiple clients across Telecom, Manufacturing and Retail across India, US, South Africa geographies
• Acting as a Team Lead for 20+ clients across multiple sectors and leading a team of 10+ resources to manage the documentation and review of ITGC Controls in line with PCAOB Standards.
• Led and executed internal IT Audits, SOX engagements including testing of IT General Controls and IT Application Controls for areas such as Hire to Retire, Procurement to Pay. Helped identify significant design level gaps and SOD conflicts across functional roles assigned to users.
• Conducted ITGC testing to provide reasonable assurance on the design and operating effectiveness of controls multiple ERPs (including SAP, Navision, Workday, MS Dynamics and several in-house applications) across areas including Access Management, Change Management, Program Development, Backup and Recovery controls. Tested the underlying Operating system and database layer controls for Access Management controls and privileged access.
• Conducted IT Awareness and training sessions within the practice addressing an audience of 100+ resources on introduction to IT Audits, ITGC and IT Application Control testing.
