Sr Associate, Audit & Internal controls

Overview

Supervise a team of SOX testing professionals within the centralized Internal Controls Center of Excellence, ensuring timely execution of SOX testing, control assessments, external audit support, and consistent testing methodologies.

What you'll do

• Supervise execution of SOX activities (e.g. GAP, testing, risk assessment) for design and operating effectiveness controls.
• Coordinate testing across finance processes including R2R, P2P, C2C, treasury, HR and other business cycles.
• Review testing workpapers and evidence for completeness, accuracy and compliance with methodologies.
• Monitor testing progress, ensure deadlines are achieved, and escalate testing issues and resource constraints.
• Support consistent application of testing standards across the team.
• Review control designs and identify potential control gaps or weaknesses.
• Support process reviews, new system implementations and transformation initiatives from a controls perspective.
• Recommend opportunities to strengthen controls and improve operational effectiveness.
• Help standardize testing approaches and documentation requirements.
• Coordinate testing support for external audit reliance; review audit samples, documentation and evidence before submission.
• Assist in addressing auditor questions and review comments; ensure audit deliverables are complete and on schedule.
• Participate in discussions with internal and external auditors as required.
• Support execution and monitoring of Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) activities and review CCM exceptions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage automation and data analytics to improve testing efficiency.
• Provide status updates on testing progress, findings and remediation efforts.
• Build relationships with process owners, controllers, finance teams, Genpact teams and Internal Audit.
• Support preparation of management reporting and metrics.
• Review control deficiencies, support root cause analysis, track remediation plans and validate corrective actions.
• Support segregation of duties (SoD) reviews and remediation efforts.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of approximately four SOX professionals; conduct workpaper reviews and provide timely feedback.
• Support onboarding and training of new team members and drive consistency in testing quality and documentation.
• Assist with workload planning and resource allocation.
• Assess processes and controls using the SOX framework; analyze testing results, exceptions, trends and recurring deficiencies.
• Facilitate controls reviews with Genpact and partner with Genpact operational leadership and process owners.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, information systems or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in SOX compliance, internal controls, internal audit, risk management or external audit.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in people management.
• Prior experience leading teams or overseeing testing engagements.
• Strong knowledge of SOX 404 and ICFR requirements.
• Experience performing control design and operating effectiveness testing.
• Strong understanding of key finance processes, including R2R, P2P and O2C/C2C.
• Familiarity with ERP environments such as JDE, SAP, Oracle or equivalent platforms.
• Understanding of automated controls, interfaces, reports and IT-dependent controls.
• Experience supporting external audit reliance and Use of Others programs.
• Strong coaching and people development skills.
• Excellent organizational and project management abilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
• Ability to balance quality expectations with operational deadlines.
• Continuous improvement mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Delivery on time and quality output for key metrics.

Nice to have

• CPA, CA, CIA, CISA or equivalent certification.

Details

• Location: 1st Floor, Embassy Vajram Onyx, Embassy Tech Village, Outer Ring Road, Devarabisanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.