Statutory Audit

Job Position Title: Manager – Audit - Statutory Audit – Assurance Location: Chennai Client: Big 4 Accounting Firm Year of experience required: 5 years+ relevant experience post Qualification Qualifications: Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well-known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information. Our team helps financial organizations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, broker dealer, Asset managers, NBFCs, private equity, AIFs, insurance, investment advisors and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy and fair presentation of our client’s information.

Responsibilities

• Should possess sound technical knowledge of Indian GAAP, Ind AS as well as IFRS and working knowledge of US GAAP. • Should have worked with reputed India firms (candidates from Big 4 firms or from industry with prior audit experience – not away for more than 2 years from audit – would be preferred). • Can actively manage multiple small and/ or medium-sized engagements simultaneously, or a large multi-location engagement, involving on an average 3 or more staff. Adopts a holistic approach to the engagement by (a) understanding the rationale for the engagement; as well as (b) making a conscious effort to understand the client’s industry and business and (c) having skeptical and critical thinking • Contribute to quality and timely reviews. Guiding the junior team members on timely basis. • Negotiate billing (Fees & Expenses) schedules and raising invoices accordingly. • Is able to actively define the scope of the engagement so as to maintain a balance between risk, effort, cost and expected value add to the client. • Apply rigorous financial controls and focus on successful completion of agreed deliverables while maintaining quality and risk management priorities. Mandatory skill sets: • Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the Audit Framework w.r.t: • Sampling guidance • Working paper requirements (including re-performance standards) • Overall quality requirements • Demonstrate ability to tailor and use appropriate methodology/ practice aids/work plan for use during a client engagement. • Technical skills – recent amendments and regulatory requirements, ind AS, RBI regulations, IFCFR, basic understanding of SOX, basic understanding of ERP systems like SAP/tally Oracle, etc. • Stay at the forefront of technical, industry and business issues, regulations and developments and maintain all required qualification(s)/ credentials. • Demonstrate knowledge of risk management and the protection of intellectual assets including Firm policies and procedures; perform work in accordance with standards. • Contribute to learning and education, design activity or instruct at training events. Other Skills

Qualifications

CA, MBA