Senior Associate 2

Description

Roles & responsibilities

The Audit Senior Associate should have prior experience in financial statements audit and have proven experience in service delivery. Prior team management skills and an ability to handle stakeholder relationships are essential.

Broadly, the key responsibilities are:

a.Audit service delivery –execute a high-quality audit and ensure timely and quality audit deliverables on the work done by self and the team.

b.Content & industry focus – Demonstrate and Build strong domain expertise (accounting & auditing) and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with ET and improve quality of work performed from GDC by self and team

The Audit Senior Associate will be predominantly responsible to -

a.Coordinate the day-to-day activities of audits and client interactions and ensuring efficient information flow from the client to the audit team.

b.Demonstrate a working knowledge and staying current on developments in accounting literature including those specific to assigned industries.

c.Supervise GDC audit associates on engagements including audit documentation review, coaching and providing timely feedback.

d.Review engagement audit documentation prepared by U.S. Audit Associates and Interns, including providing review notes and timely feedback on the work.

e.For identified and approved engagements work requests, perform reviews for work prepared by GDC teams.

f.Raise any issues identified on a timely basis to the US engagement team , as well as seek possible resolution from them.

g.Understand and capture comments from ET to provide feedback to team for self and team development, including feedback on how to improve audit documentation.

h.Identify more areas of work on US audits and transition those to GDC.

i.Identify more areas of work on US audits and transition those to GDC.

j.Identify and communicate opportunities for audit efficiencies and process improvement to US engagement team.

k.Demonstrate professionalism, industry competence and clarity of communication when dealing with the ET.

l.Develop self by participating in and developing others by facilitating audit conceptual trainings and ensuring that team members are trained.

m.Participate in firm's strategic initiatives and/or corporate social responsibility programs.

n.Support the design and execution of an engagements audit approach and procedures in accordance with relevant regulatory professional auditing and assurance standards and applicable US firm guidance and KPMG methodology.

o.Completes Goal Setting, Interim Reviews, Year-End Reviews of the team members (including self) and provides feedback on a timely basis. Encourages and rewards people for pursuing new ideas and solutions, drive employee engagement /GPS for the cluster effectively.

Preferred Technical Skills

a.Research skills

b.Risk assessment

c.Critical thinking

Key Behavioral attributes, requirements 

a.Attention to detail and quality consciousness

b.Quick learner

c.Adaptable to change

d.Agile to deliver under tight timelines, based on business needs including working on weekends

e.Collaborative

f.Proactive

Responsibilities

Roles & responsibilities

The Audit Senior Associate should have prior experience in financial statements audit and have proven experience in service delivery. Prior team management skills and an ability to handle stakeholder relationships are essential.

Broadly, the key responsibilities are:

a.Audit service delivery –execute a high-quality audit and ensure timely and quality audit deliverables on the work done by self and the team.

b.Content & industry focus – Demonstrate and Build strong domain expertise (accounting & auditing) and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with ET and improve quality of work performed from GDC by self and team

The Audit Senior Associate will be predominantly responsible to -

a.Coordinate the day-to-day activities of audits and client interactions and ensuring efficient information flow from the client to the audit team.

b.Demonstrate a working knowledge and staying current on developments in accounting literature including those specific to assigned industries.

c.Supervise GDC audit associates on engagements including audit documentation review, coaching and providing timely feedback.

d.Review engagement audit documentation prepared by U.S. Audit Associates and Interns, including providing review notes and timely feedback on the work.

e.For identified and approved engagements work requests, perform reviews for work prepared by GDC teams.

f.Raise any issues identified on a timely basis to the US engagement team , as well as seek possible resolution from them.

g.Understand and capture comments from ET to provide feedback to team for self and team development, including feedback on how to improve audit documentation.

h.Identify more areas of work on US audits and transition those to GDC.

i.Identify more areas of work on US audits and transition those to GDC.

j.Identify and communicate opportunities for audit efficiencies and process improvement to US engagement team.

k.Demonstrate professionalism, industry competence and clarity of communication when dealing with the ET.

l.Develop self by participating in and developing others by facilitating audit conceptual trainings and ensuring that team members are trained.

m.Participate in firm's strategic initiatives and/or corporate social responsibility programs.

n.Support the design and execution of an engagements audit approach and procedures in accordance with relevant regulatory professional auditing and assurance standards and applicable US firm guidance and KPMG methodology.

o.Completes Goal Setting, Interim Reviews, Year-End Reviews of the team members (including self) and provides feedback on a timely basis. Encourages and rewards people for pursuing new ideas and solutions, drive employee engagement /GPS for the cluster effectively.

Preferred Technical Skills

a.Research skills

b.Risk assessment

c.Critical thinking

Key Behavioral attributes, requirements 

a.Attention to detail and quality consciousness

b.Quick learner

c.Adaptable to change

d.Agile to deliver under tight timelines, based on business needs including working on weekends

e.Collaborative

f.Proactive

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements

a.Qualified CA,US CPA, and/or ACCA and minimum of Master's degree in Finance & Accounting with first division (60%),OR

b.Be eligible to sit for the US CPA exam and meet the minimum educational requirements for CPA licensure.

Work Experience

a.24-36 months post qualification of which 2 years sign off experience either as Senior or Assistant manager  / 3 busy seasons  and operating as a senior post qualification along with strong Articleship experience from a mid-size or a Big 4 firm in case of CA OR

b.Relevant audit experience of at least 4 years in case of possessing certifications other than CA.

c.Recent client facing audit experience with Big 4/leading Audit firms or their shared service center in a senior associate program on end-to-end audits required.

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