Kunal Shah

• Leading and managing IT audit engagements (External audits, Service Auditor reports, SOX compliance and Data migration) from planning to reporting, and producing quality deliverables to both department and professional standards.
• Managing the largest external audit client in the firm.
• Supported successful planning, execution and finalisation of 20+ statutory audits.
• Maintained profitability by constantly monitoring assignment progress against budget goals.
• Balancing multiple banking and asset management IT audit engagements simultaneously, whilst ensuring high quality output and team wellbeing.
• Recognising the confidential nature of internal team/client communications and access to information; exercising discipline in protecting the confidentiality and security of information in accordance with firm policy.
• Communicating and finalising findings to the financial audit team and using judgment to provide an overall opinion on the control environment.
• Developing recommendations for clients helping improve their system, processes and internal controls.
• Effectively managing teams where required, performing timely review of work performed and providing honest and constructive feedback.
• Part of the diversity and inclusion group, helping ensure all colleagues feel welcomed within the team and the wider firm.
• Ensuring that projects are completed in a timely manner and any deviation from the timelines is flagged immediately.

Key Achievements

• Received the quarterly award by the firm for having exceptional performance during the quarter.
• Identified a fraud whilst auditing a Crypto exchange platform client. Assisted the financial audit team in performing substantive mitigation testing and re designing the audit approach.

• Performed walk throughs for revenue and FRCP cycles to identify and test IT automated controls and identify key risks for banking and crypto currency exchange platforms.
• Led and executed on a number of audits for banking clients (Retail and commercial Banking) where I was assigned to long term audits for some of the top global banks.
• Recognised the importance of quality and attention to details and continuously improved existing skills via training, guidance from senior management and working on a large number of projects in the financial sector.
• Mentored and helped develop junior team members via delivering training courses, knowledge sharing calls and honest constructive feedback.
• Developed a strong understanding of regulatory requirements in the financial services sector.

Key Achievements

• Auditor on a 50000 hour audit for one of the leading banks globally.
• Conducted a control gap analysis in line with the AAF guidelines for a middle eastern bank based in London and helped them design appropriate controls to meet the AAF and ISAE 3402 requirements.

• Supported business development activities, including preparing proposals and meeting prospective clients.
• Involved in the assessment of IT Business Continuity, Disaster recovery, 3rd party risk management and data migration projects.
• Managed the wellbeing of the team, organising weekly events, and organising one to one calls with team members.

Key Achievements

• Completed a long term remediation project for one of the largest banks worldwide, helping remediate over 200+ controls. The work included designing new controls and KPI’s, remediating existing controls and testing the controls after implementation. Once completed the controls were rolled out by the bank globallyacross all its regions.

• Performed IT Audit engagements and provided assurance services for the financial services sector.
• Developed a strong understanding on testing ITGC's, automated controls, databases, server OS and network-level controls.
• Developed professional communication skills and assertiveness by indulging with senior stakeholders of world-renowned corporations.
• Gained experience on various systems - ERP systems SAP, SQL, legacy systems and custom systems via working on various projects.