Director - NON FS Statutory Audit

Proposed designation: Director - NON SF Statutory Audit

Leadership

§ The Audit Director (D) should have prior experience in audit attestation domain and should have proven strong and extensive experience in audit service delivery. Prior team and people management skills and ability to handle stakeholder relationships are essential.

• Reporting to: Associate Partner

• Geo to be supported: United States of America (US)

• Work timings: 11 AM to 8 PM (India time)

• Work mode : Hybrid (2-3 days weekly WFO, base location)

Roles & responsibilities

Broadly, the key responsibilities are:

• Audit service delivery – Be the leader for teams of professionals responsible for audit service delivery and ensure timely and quality audit deliverables on the work done by self and the team. The professional will build strong relationships with onshore colleagues and engagement teams, clients (on a case-by-case basis), identifying areas where GDC can improve quality and increase the scope of work

• Planning: Develop an annual work plan that specifies staff accountabilities, key performance indicators and expected outcomes of success. Drive effective budgeting, business planning, and program evaluation frameworks to optimize the delivery of the services programs and services.

• Industry focus – Be responsible for managing a large portfolio of industry clients. Experience in respective industry is preferred.

• Relationship Management - Build deep relationships with KPMG US, KPMG India, KPMG Global Services stakeholders to be in a position to influence decisions.

Roles & responsibilities

• Strategic Initiatives - Contribute to GDC’s growth plans, provide thought leadership by researching trends & implementing industry best practices to take GDC up in the value chain. Use technology (on specific areas of work), continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery.

• Process orientation - Continuously engage with Stakeholders & Operations team to understand their needs and define/refine policy, procedures, or systems accordingly.

• Business Development – Build strong domain expertise and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with ET, clients (in approved instances) and improve GDC’s market share.

• People development and management – Be a performance manager for a group of 10 to 15 Associate Directors and Managers; Play a key role in the development of the team, coach and act as a mentor for the team-members on the industry specific areas of audit work that could be done on a remote platform

• Innovation - Foster a culture of innovation where professionals are encouraged to ideate, use and come up with ideas to use the tools and technologies

• Innovation - Partner with US Core Audit industry practice and GDC Technology solutions to identify opportunities for automation on standardized audit areas to bring efficiency and quality

Educational qualifications

• CA/CPA/ACCA (should hold license) and minimum of Bachelors’ degree in Finance & Accounting with first division (60%)

Work experience

• 12-14 years of post qualification experience with Big 4/leading Audit firms or their shared service center is essential