Pragyan Paramita

o Engagement Manager: Experience in Statutory Audit, PCAOB Audit engagements and FRC Audit engagements for ‘crown jewel clients’ by facilitating the engagement lifecycle starting from planning through archiving. As part of EQCR reviews received feedback as ‘Good quality’.

o Trustful client relationships: Developed trustful client relationship during the audit process by working onsite in a collaboration with the client personnel. Conducted workshops on ‘why we test what we test’ with a risk-based approach to enable stakeholders understand the value of audit.

o Setting up new teams: Facilitated set up of new teams across geographies and streamlined performance management for the teams. The teams were set up as delivery centers across European Union and India.

o Team Management: Working harmoniously by fostering inclusion with teams based out of the US, UK, European Union and India whilst being mindful of the time differences across the zones.

o Technical Reviews: Involved with the team in end-to-end testing of the General IT Controls, Risk Assessment, Understanding the involvement of IT through System and Control scoping, Cyber Security procedures, 2342, Mitigation analysis and Remediation testing.

o Reporting: As part of Audit quality meetings, facilitate the process of depth analysis of findings and presentation to the audit committee along with the Partner. Weekly touch points with Head of IT to communicate the findings and challenges during the audit process.

o Practice Development: Involved in identifying use case scenarios for Robotics process automation for redundant areas of GITC testing, Bids and proposals, Campus recruitment and Learning and Development.

Engagement Manager: Prepare an IT Audit plan for the first-year engagement by working closely with the financial audit team. Representative from IT as a specialist to identify ‘Risk associated with IT’ for the in-scope applications, databases, operation systems and tools. Performed due diligence of the processes and controls to understand if they were aligned to meet the control objectives as defined by the client. Risk Assessment, 2342, Mitigation documentation and sign-off.

Key areas of contribution:

• Spearheaded complex walkthrough meetings such as Robotics Process Automation to understand the IT environment.

Identified significant deficiencies pervasive across the IT Environment and provided proactive feedback to the financial audit team for a non-reliance IT approach.

Presented findings to team for cross learning and development.

Review ITGC testing, SOX testing and External IT Audit

• Developed test procedures and internal checklist for team to assess operating effectiveness of the IT General Computer Controls for Access Management and Change Management.
• Client Interaction, Project Management and Team Management of 25 personnel.
• Delivered Internal Technical training.

Team Performance management.

Key Areas of Contribution:

• Penetration: YoY growth across the accounts FY'19 - 24% & FY'20 - 30% with 25% & 30% KGS integration.
• Client Management: As an Engagement Manager, facilitated Risk Assessment meetings, scoping and evaluated IT considerations in all phases of an integrated financial statement audit.
• Delivery: This growth was achieved by having a sound understanding of the needs to the Application Assessments engagements, strong client and onshore stakeholder relationship management (that included both the Financial Audit and IRMeA teams), a structured approach in planning for higher KGS integration, monitoring the work delivered and maintaining high level of service quality.
• Engagement Lifecycle: Audit planning meetings, drafting Risk Assessment, attending walkthrough calls, designing process flow charts and identifying risks as an IT Specialist, enabling team to perform gap analysis and document the findings, review test work and identify gaps in form of exceptions/deficiencies.
• Reporting: Presented Quarterly findings to the Head of Internal Audit (Client.
• Partly engaged as part of PCAOB reviews from IT Risk Management team.
• Project Management: Engagement Planning, Resourcing, Budgeting and reporting to KPMG US & KGS Leadership.
• Practice Development: Trainer for Infrastructure Elements(OS, DB, Applications), IRMEa methodologies content development for usage across KPMG Global network, Use cases for Robotic Process Automation, Recruitment, Secondment and simplifying Technology Assurance on boarding process.
• Coach and Mentor professionals in my circle of influence by understanding their career aspirations and enabling them to achieve their potential and guiding them around their developmental areas.
• Fostered Inclusion by leading Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives across KPMG India offices.
• Led a cross functional team of 40 across geographies.

Key areas of Contribution:

• Driving quality by achieving 100% promoter scores
• Identified a number of process improvement opportunities which was agreed upon and appreciated by the client
• Facilitated PPMDs in PCAOB review meetings
• Ability to stay on top of evolving needs of the account and the team through quick learning agility and adaptability of IT Audit methodologies and frameworks
• Leading client calls for process understanding, evaluating audit evidence, reviewing test work performed by the team, testing complex controls form part of day to day activities
• Proficient in testing ITGCs at application and at the Infrastructure layers - Unix, Windows, Oracle, SQL, SAP, Oracle ERP
• Building trustful client relationship
• Facilitated use cases creation & deployment of BOTs across Access Security, Change Management & administrative areas for External Audit engagements
• Work closely with Partners and Directors from planning to closure of the audit cycle to ensure risk is assessed appropriately
• Adopting people centric approach while managing a team of 25.

• Proficient IT Internal Audit - Walk through meetings, understanding processes, creating process flow diagrams, testing GITCs across applications, Operating systems, Databases and tools.
• Write recommendations for Internal Audit clients and present it to management.
• Lead by example: As a part of coaching strategy, ensured that team members shadow me during the walk through meetings to understand the know hows of conducting walk through meetings, obtain audit evidences and analyse them to comprehend results.
• Oversight to new team members and bringing them up to speed to be able to deliver independently.
• Led the efforts for creating a test plan for Robotic Process Automation testing, Unix and Oracle database.
• Deloitte Faculty Excellence (DFX) certified to deliver training programs across the globe at any Deloitte office.
• Eventually led a team of 18 located across geographies.
• Extensive travel to client locations - Internationally and locally to understand processes and controls resulting in trustful client relationship.

• Experienced Assistant Manager in Business Excellence, worked in the automotive industry for more than 1.5 years in Manufacturing, Sales, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management System.
• Enabled Business to achieve goals by implementing the Excellence Model in all functions and identify Lean & Six Sigma projects to resolve chronic concerns.
  - Imparted Training on Concern Resolution - QC Story
  - Established Quality System : New Product Development System; OEM’s Mahindra Quality System.
• Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management - As a Management Representative woked towards implementing SOPs, CAPA, TPM, 5S, Kaizen & TPS learning; This helped achieve Production, Safety, Quality and Cost targets
• Sales - Performed Business process re-engineering by aggregating teams and standardizing processes.
  

Certifications and Accolades:

- Lead QMS Auditor - IMS
- Mahindra Knowledge Management Awards 2012 for Best Knowledge Contribution for ‘Cost Optimization' in improving the tool kit box from CEO.