Partner - Statutory Audit - Big4

Description:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Strategic Leadership devise and lead the execution of the Organization Collective Strategy and Audit/Business priorities at a member firm level. Maintains a current understanding of the Global Audit strategy, the relevant regulatory and legal requirements and the Business Audit Strategy to enable Member Firms to transform their Audit Delivery model

- Business Coaching capable of advising and coaching leadership on the countrys Audit strategy and contributing to Audit thought leadership

- Brand Awareness & Risk Management - able to manage our Brand in line with Global requirements/guidance. Works to develop an internal and external profile within the business community and with our employees. Will manage risk and market perception through key relationships.

- Maintain strong connections with the Business Solution Leads and other Delivery Centre leads to ensure seamless service delivery and alignment with overall business objectives.

This role requires a qualified auditor who has experience leading high quality audit engagements, signing audit opinions, and leading teams implementing new audit methodology. In particular:

- Contributing to regional and/or global strategic priorities

- Enabling the Organization strategy to be delivered effectively through the Biz India delivery centre

- Collaborate closely with the Biz Solution leads and Solution team for the promotion and growth of the Biz solutions through Biz and for the identification of additional areas or opportunities to centralize, standardize and automate Audit work into a consolidated delivery team

- Embedding priorities resulting from the Global Audit Quality Transformation Program

- Demonstrating a wider contribution to audit quality as shown through quality and compliance indicators

- Consistently implement our Collective Strategy, including incorporating into your annual member firm business plan and adopt relevant global policies

- Ensure that each solution line and Member Firm delivery team has established structures, reporting lines, and appropriate authorities and responsibilities, including assigning operational responsibility for the applicable system of quality management

- Put in place professional development and human resource processes that support audit quality objectives in accordance with the professional standards and the system of quality management. This will include:

(a)Provision of investments and processes to build the capability of the audit workforce to meet the requirements of regulation and the skills needed for the future

(b)Effective processes to assign audit professionals with sufficient capacity and ability to engagements in line with the firms quality commitments

(c)Detailed workforce planning in line with the audit client portfolio

- Motivate, and commit funding to support the resource management accountabilities in support of audit quality

- Perform activities or carry out responsibilities in relation to the operation of the system of quality management

- Ensure that the Firm Audit quality control policies and procedures, and requirements to perform work that complies with professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements,

- Determine that the Firm Audit teams in Biz have established policies or procedures for dealing with complaints and allegations about the commitment to quality of the firm or its personnel, including clearly defining channels within the firm that enable reporting by personnel or external parties to appropriate individual(s) without fear of reprisal and enabling the investigation and resolution of the complaints and allegations

- Determine that the strategic decisions and actions, including financial and operational priorities of the Firm teams, demonstrate a commitment to quality and to the firms role in serving the public interest, by consistently performing quality engagements

- Drive adoption of a data-driven and technology-enabled audit across the Firm Audit teams to drive quality, efficiency, innovation and market differentiation

- Drive the adoption and use of globally developed standardized audit procedures in centralized locations to enable quality consistency, efficiency and market differentiation

- Oversee the workforce planning/shaping and building capability of Firm teams to future proof workforce.

- Support global consistency to help drive cohesiveness across the regions/global through countries working closer together

Qualifications:

This role is for you if you have the below

Educational qualifications:

- Professional accounting qualification

Work experience:

- 20+ years experience with a reputed firm.

Other information:

- Mode of Interview: Virtual / In person

- Job Location: Gurgaon / Bangalore

- Clean room Policy (Specific to business): No

- Does the job role involve travelling: Yes

- Does the busy season apply to this role? : Yes

Location:

Bangalore & Gurgaon