About the position

The Audit manager should have prior experience in audit attestation domain and should have proven experience in audit service delivery. Prior team and people management skills and ability to handle stakeholder relationships are essential.

Broadly, the key responsibilities are:

- Audit service delivery 

- Be the leader for a group of professionals (25-45) responsible for audit service delivery and ensure timely quality audit deliverable on the work done by self and the team. The professional will build strong relationships with the US colleagues and ET (on a case by case basis), identifying areas where Global Center can improve quality and increase the scope of work under the overall permissibly paradigm

- Industry focus and strategic initiatives : Be responsible for managing a large portfolio of US clients within the Insurance industry group and act as a Service Champion/Lead-in shaping up Global Center level strategic initiatives like Centralization/Innovation.

- People development and management: Be a performance manager for a group (10 to 15) of professionals; Play a key role in the development of the team, coach and act as a mentor for the team members on the US industry-specific areas of audit work that could be done on a remote platform

Roles and responsibilities

The manager will be predominantly responsible to -

Audit Service delivery :

- Be a coach/mentor to a team of Seniors and Associates and train them to deliver high-Quality industry-specific work on time and within the time estimates made and agreed with the US engagement teams.

- Develop and maintain productive relationships with key BIG 4 US industry leaders and contacts to grow Global Center business through 

- Establishing expectations of value to be delivered on the engagements worked on from Global Center

- Building industry specific knowledge and capabilities within the Global Center teams

- Work closely with the ET to transition new engagements and services to Global Center while maintaining high quality

- Identify opportunities to standardize and optimize audit processes across a portfolio of clients and the industry to improve efficiency

- Develop an understanding of BIG 4 Quality and Risk Management procedures, and ensure these are embedded into the Global Center team's work papers

- Proactively discuss audit procedures with the Global Center teams, allocating right resources (wherever needed) to work and monitor performance against standards by performing continuous reviews

- For identified engagements perform high-level reviews of work prepared by Global Center teams with a focus on industry specific procedures and enhance conceptual clarity of Global Center professionals

- Monitor and manage key industry specific Performance Quality metrics for the Global Center teams

- Understand scope of Global Center offerings across all lines of businesses to provide innovative solutions for engagement teams- needs

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

- Provide innovative solutions and explore opportunities to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery in efficient ways

- Contribute to technical and soft-skills training to continually develop the team's skills on industry specific areas of work

Manage people ;

- Be a performance manager to guide and coach Global Center professionals on career advancement and provide continuous feedback throughout the performance year on their development areas

- Actively participate and lead overall performance development and feedback process at team level and at overall Global Center level

- Take steps to inculcate the Global Center Culture in his/her team and strategic measures to improve the overall GPS Score of the organization

Lead projects :

- On business and industry specific knowledge development initiatives at GDC

- Lead / participate in firm's strategic initiatives and/or corporate social responsibility programs

- Improve operational effectiveness through measures of improving people utilization and generating efficiencies

- MUST HAVE 5+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE POST CA.

- MUST HAVE STRONG PEOPLE MANAGEMENT SKILLS.

- THIS ROLE DOES NOT ENVOLVE EXTENSIVE TRAVEL.

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