Genpact - Senior Consultant/Manager - Control Self Assessment

Key Responsibilities:

The position is responsible to lead the CSA "Control Self Assessment" vertical in an IC COE set up for a Global major with operations across regions. The position reports to the IC COE leader and would lead a team of 15-20 people. This position would be required to drive end-to-end planning and implementation of the CSA solution covering key aspects such as:

- Play a key role in leading teams for planning, designing, implementation and reporting

- Drive the overall understanding of the CSA program with teams and its cross linkages with the SOX program for effective implementation.

- Establish close working relationship with all the business and controllership groups across countries and geographies

- Drive and monitor mechanism to troubleshoot queries from business users in responding to CSA questionnaires

- Provide guidance to the team and lead them to complete the required tasks / testing with defined timelines for providing assurance to concerned stakeholders.

- Supervise teams of multi-location professionals/ professionals operating from a delivery center; approximately 15-20 depending on coverage as outlined from time to time

- Plan work, assign responsibilities, guide team on the allotted tasks, troubleshoot issues in completing assigned tasks, manage quality of deliverables and completion of projects within budgeted time and defined timelines

- Enable cross leverage of knowledge sharing between team members of a stream / multiple stream

- Participate actively in the design / Operations build-up. Identify areas of improvement on an ongoing basis and co-ordinate with respective stakeholders for driving implementation

- Provide timely updates to management on various activities and highlight challenges faced

- Making presentations to senior management on findings / deliverables

- Play an active role in development, roll-out of training initiatives, cross training of team members to enhance the existing skill base

- Evaluate and provide inputs on team performance for the R&R program

- Plan team's career progression in consultation with the IC CoE leader

Key Qualification and Experience requirements:

- Should have a professional qualification - CA or an MBA from a reputed business school. Additional qualifications such as CIA, CISA, CFE are an advantage.

- Required overall experience of 6 years plus in Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Process Reviews, Controllership function for a Global diversified company or in a risk management function at a Top Corporate with at least 4-5 years of experience in managing end-to-end Internal Audit function. The IA experience should span and cover the following

1. Risk assessment and drawing up an IA plan

2. Finalizing the risk scale

3. Assigning audits, planning and monitoring execution

4. Finalizing the audit observations and root causing

5. Providing recommendations to mitigate the gap

6. Present audit reports to the Senior Management / Audit Committee

7. Implementation status review and reporting

- Should have been involved in designing and implementing a Control Self Assessment / Internal Controls framework over a technology platform.

- Experience in CPG/ FMCG industry in Internal Audit/SOX would be preferred

- Should have exposure in SAP (at least FICO module) or at most in any other ERP like Oracle, Peoplesoft etc.

- Strong report writing and presentation skills, an analytical mind, and problem solving abilities.

- Position requires the ability to work effectively with all levels of staff and handle confidential information discretely and professionally.

- Must be able to react to deadlines with flexibility and professionalism.

- Strong PC skills, including Word, Excel, Visio.

- Excellent communication, teaming skills, ability to carry out work in an offshore environment, strong executive presence

- Ability to travel

- Prior experience in Risk Consulting would be a big plus

Notes - Experience as per MSA

- Stream Manager - 7-10 years work experience and Masters degree/CA/ICWA/MBA - Finance.

- Specialist /Senior Consultant - 2-6 years specific process experience and Masters degree/Qualified Accountant or 5-8 years experienced Graduate in commerce/ accounting.

- Specialist - Team Lead - 1-3 years experience and Masters degree/Qualified Accountant or 3-6 years experienced Graduate in commerce/ accounting.