Risk and Compliance Analyst - Gurgaon - ref. l05069219
Designation: Risk and Compliance Analyst
Qualifications:Any GraduationYears of Experience:3 to 5 years
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What would you do? You will be aligned with our Risk and Compliance vertical and help us perform compliance reviews, publish reports with actions and provide closure guidance as needed. We design & recommend effective controls to mitigate risks and help service delivery team prepare for upcoming client / external audits.
You will be working as a part of the Risk & compliance team which is responsible for helping clients and organizations identify risks and create mitigation plans.In Risk Management you will be responsible for anticipating, plan for, and react to risks and issues to the project, including categorizing their severity, taking into account the likelihood of occurrence, mitigation & contingency planning. You will be expected to follow an agile approach that builds risk management into scrum roles, artifacts, and events and helps in continuous project delivery.
What are we looking for? ? Education: On going Public Accounting or equivalent
- Recommended Certifications, License’s, etc.: CIA, CISA
- Work Experience: 4+ years’ experience in a Finance or Audit function for a publicly held US traded company (including Accounting, Internal Audit and/or Internal Controls) or equivalent if employed in a non-US country (preferred)
- Strong Microsoft excel, google suite skills
- Strong process-related skills
- Organized and detail oriented
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and presentation skills to effectively interact throughout the company
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Willingness to work flexible hours, as necessary, in order to meet monthly and quarterly deliverable deadlines and to provide extended-hour customer support.
- Evaluate and document the design and Operating Effectiveness of the assigned controls/contracts in GRC Tool by the defined due dates.
- Evaluation of Operating Effectiveness includes:
- Inspecting evidence to ensure control activities are performed accurately and consistently.
- Documenting the findings in the GRC Tool.
- Concluding on the Operating Effectiveness of each internal control.
- For those controls assessed as ineffective, notifying the responsible party that an action plan is required.
- Create reports to monitor completion of OE Testing process.
- Report and escalate issues to supervisor
- Develop an understanding of relevant team tools and systems (SAR Box, Archer, SharePoint sites, SAP, Peoplesoft, Blackline, Teammate, etc.).
- Develop standard email notifications / communications in order to facilitate the proper and timely execution of the control’s procedures (reminders, calendars, lessons learned, etc.)
- To oversee and review the various KPI’s and deliverables of the team.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies (audit methodology and risk management) and obtaining, analyzing and evaluating documentation, reports, data, flowchart etc.
- Play an active part in identifying process gaps and establishing new processes, automation with emphasis on internal controls
- To ensure all required controls are implemented, documented, and monitored to ensure full audit compliance.
- Support the testing of IT general controls (such as access management, change management, Segregation of Duties, System Development Life Cycle, etc ) and automated / configuration controls in SAP and any other systems.
- Support the testing of interface controls between different systems and middleware controls
- SOX tester needs to have knowledge around business aspects of technical updates that might be needed
would be primarily responsible for performing the walkthroughs and testing the design and operating effectiveness of controls, coordinating with the control owners for data gathering and documenting the results