AM - Offshore Audit/Statutory Audit - Big4

Having an urgent opening with one of the Reputed Big4 Consulting Organisation for thier Shared Service centre in Bangalore.

About the Position

- The Assistant Manager should have prior experience in Audit domain and should have proven experience in service delivery, process improvements and operational excellence. S/he should have prior people management skills (may be required to manage upto 40+ employees directly) and ability to handle stakeholder relationships in a shared services organisation.

Broadly, the key responsibilities are:

- Operations management – Be responsible for day to day operations to ensure error free Audit service delivery (refer Operations R&R below)

- Relationship management – Be a extended team member for key client engagement teams(ET)

- Employee development – Ensure strong performance management and enabling employees to meet career aspirations through coaching, mentoring and targeted training interventions

- Strategic Initiatives - Contribute to GDC’s growth plans and implement industry best practices to take GDC up the value chain

- Process excellence – Ensure highest level of Quality by implementing QMS, building a strong Quality culture and focusing on continuous process improvements

- Content & industry focus – Build strong domain expertise (accounting & auditing) and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with ET and improve GDC’s market share

- All other duties assigned

Detailed Operations R&R

Responsible for:

- Responsible for deliverables within TAT

- Ensure all the deliverables are error free

- Plan and organize the daily work flow among the teams particularly coordinate with other AM’s during busy season for planning the work to ensure all the work is delivered timely

- Provide clarification, guidance to team members on all the processes related questions

- Interact with Secondee for clarification, review, estimate of hours etc

- Interact with ET on regular basis or as required

- Perform quality reviews (AM review) as required by the process guideline

- Provide timely update to teams about the changes in process, policies etc

- Analysis Internal/external errors of the teams and provide guidance to team members to minimize the errors

- Organize the refresher process trainings for the team members based on the feedback from team leads, quality, efficiency etc

- Update training manual regularly with all the recent update

- Regular meeting with other AM’s for process improvement, consistency in the processes, process improvement, efficiency etc.

- Manage teams, solve team issues and escalate the issues to Managers as required

- Have a team lead/one to one meeting with all the team members regularly or as per the guideline provided by Manager.

- Keep the attrition to minimal,

- Ensure team utilization to optimal

- Minimize OT hours by proper planning and reallocating the work among all the team members

- Responsible for succession planning for key people

- Create Back up, provide training on all responsible jobs/metrics

- Perform Additional Tasks as assigned by the Manager.

- Participate in Hiring and Training

- Perform half yearly/annual appraisal of team members

Candidate qualification, experience and competencies required

Educational Requirements

- CA qualified

Experience Requirements

- Minimum 5 years of experience including 2-3 years of post qualification experience

- Experience with Big 4/leading Audit firms or their shared service center

- Good knowledge of MS Office (excellent Excel Skills)

- People Management Skills

Competencies

- Attention for detail and quality conscious

- High-energy, independent decision maker with ability to manage priorities & conflicts

- Strong communication abilities (both written and spoken English skills)

- Proactive problem solver with good planning and organizing skills

- Ability to lead change by effectively building commitment and winning support for initiatives through influencing, negotiation, collaboration and relationship building skills

- Should be willing to stretch in terms of working hours based on the business needs including working on weekends during peak season

Candidates from Big 4 or any leading CA audit firm can absolutely apply.

Interested candidates may apply at kirti.saxena@abcconsultants.in or may call at 9910846444 for further details.

Looking forwartd for your kind responses.

Kirti Saxena
9910846444