Manager/Senior Manager - Statutory Audit - Indian Practice - Big4 - CA

Department : Audit & Assurance (Statutory Audit)

Location : Gurgaon

Position : Manager & Associate Director (Statutory Audit)

Experience required : 5 - 10 years relevant experience post-qualification

Qualification Education : CA

Job Profile :

- Viewed as a trusted business advisor by key client decision makers and develops deep working relationships at the highest levels of an organization.

- Coaches the client where relevant and assists them in assessing options, and arriving at practical and achievable conclusions that the client fully owns, always considering the regulatory environment for particular clients.

- Emphasizes and reinforces with all staff that learning and consultation, both formal and informal, are encouraged and expected.

- Actively advances the firm's people strategy through personal behaviors and demonstrates respect for diverse ideas and cultures.

- Offers ideas to enhance firm profitability through value creation, increased efficiency and development of expanded offerings.

- Confidently discusses with the client the commercial value and distinctive benefits that can be delivered through the engagement.

- Advise clients and teams on technical accounting issues relating to IFRS and/or US GAAP.

- Can actively manage multiple small and/ or medium-sized engagements simultaneously, or a large multi-location engagement, involving on an average 6 or more staff and 1 or more client staff. Adopts a holistic approach to the engagement by

(a) understanding the rationale for the engagement; as well as

(b) making a conscious effort to understand the client's industry and business.

- Contribute to quality reviews for technical tasks on own projects.

- Negotiate billing (Fees & Expenses) schedules and raising invoices accordingly.

- Is able to actively define the scope of the assignment so as to maintain a balance between the effort, cost and expected value addition by the client.

- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the Audit Framework w.r.t:

- Sampling Guidance

- Working Paper Requirements

- Re-performance Standards

- Quality Requirements

- Social Compliance reviews while guiding junior colleagues.

- Also demonstrate ability to tailor and then use appropriate methodology / practice aide /work plan for use during a client engagement.

- Technical skills - basic understanding of SOX (have done SOX related work is desirable), knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS (desirable).

Other Skills:

- Thorough technical knowledge on Corporate Law, Accounting Standards, Auditing Standards, CARO Principles, Companies Act & Basic knowledge of Indirect tax, FEMA and Transfer Pricing (Desirable)

- Project Management - Leading the project from the front, timely execution and completion, ability to foresee project pain areas and work out alternate resolutions

- Communication & Interpersonal - good communication and presentation skills, ability to discuss and handle senior management of the clients, connecting well with the client and team members.

- Report writing - clarity of thought, articulation of observation/issues, good command over written language.

- General Business Awareness & ability to prepare good proposals & have good networking skills.

- General - self-starter, highly committed, self-motivated, driven by objectives and high value system.

- Working knowledge of MS Office- word, power point and excel.