EXL - Manager - Governance, Risk & Compliance

Roles & Responsibilities:

This is a supervisory position reporting to the AVP- Governance, Risk and Compliance (Financial Service), Finance Transformation. The person will lead service delivery for small to medium teams engaged in Assurance and Accounting support engagements for global clients in Insurance, Healthcare and Banking & Capital Markets verticals. The Manager GRC-FS will be responsible for supporting the leadership team in developing and executing the delivery methodology and framework, establish a QA process, help develop new products, service offerings and value propositions:

- Manage small to medium sized teams of staff and senior consultants engaged in delivering complex assurance, accounting and advisory engagements

- Innovate and implement best practices to improve service delivery

- Manage to measurable key performance metrics

- Collaborate with onshore teams and engage clients effectively from offshore

- Analyze processes and controls, perform root cause analysis and articulate control deficiencies and remediation techniques both internally and with client senior management

- Provide assistance and advisory services to clients and perform an ongoing risk assessment of anticipated organizational changes and emerging control issues; support and monitor remediation activities, as necessary

- Develop and maintain adequate control and process documentation (i.e. control matrices, flowcharts, testing documentation) in accordance with engagement objectives

- Maintain ongoing awareness of significant changes related to new statutory and US GAAP pronouncements or other factors that may affect SOX, MAR or Federal Reserve Reporting scoping and control activities for assigned areas, and make adjustments to assigned programs as necessary

- Coordinate and manage interactions with multi-functional and cross-geographical teams both internally and externally, as necessary

- Participate in key Transformation pursuits, including competitive RFI/RFP’s

- Travel up to 20% may be required based on client requests/commitments

Desired Profile-

- Highly motivated team leaders who are willing to go the extra mile

- High level of self-confidence, strong people and client management skills and demonstrated leadership ability

- Excellent presentation and written communication skills

- CA, CPA or MBA with strong quantitative skills from a top tier business school (preferred)

- 6-8 years of assurance and advisory experience, preferably with a Big 4 or leading accounting firm

- Knowledge of current accounting, auditing principals and internal control concepts

- Exposure or understanding of control concepts and processes with practical experience in regulatory compliance, internal audits, risk management, accounting / process advisory and finance transformation / improvement