• Participating in ongoing assessment of control environment and determining compliance with policies and procedures• Monitoring, follow-up and reporting draft audit findings and outstanding recommendations to department/branch heads• Effective stakeholder management and coordinating coverage with external auditors

• Laid the groundwork for Financial Reporting Council’s 2021 Modern Slavery Report by reviewing international corporate reporting practices (particularly UK) and developments in modern slavery, identifying systematic reporting deficiencies, suggesting areas of improvement.• Investigated Modern Slavery disclosures of 100 companies (cross-section of FTSE100 and FTSE 250) against a scoring framework (disclosure quality measurement tool co-developed on Excel Macros) and ensured compliance with Section 54 of UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 & Sec 172 of Companies Act 2006.

• Working as an Ambassador for the University, promoting its ethos, opportunities and services and enhancing its reputation at events.

• Spearheaded internal audit assignments of a diverse portfolio of clients including manufacturing, distribution, construction companies and private equity owned companies, understanding and mitigating operational risks.• Set-up and implemented internal audit system for a major rice milling client (£20M turnover; £7M CC limit) • Understood potential clients and business issues and performed detailed audit testing using current and previous years’ data.• Developed Excel Macros and standardized reporting templates, resulting in simplifying data formatting and reducing turnaround time by 30% • Conducted statutory audit of nationalized bank (State Bank of India) and detected revenue leakage of up to £0.1M and identified non-performing assets of almost £0.5M, subsequently reversing the income

• Independently delivered accurate and timely NAV after careful review of Management Fee, Performance fee expenses• Reviewed Pre-pricing and Final Pricing of all portfolios and sent NAV pack to the client before SLA• Completed MIS and open high-level review of tasks to ensure compliance with audit requirements and timely escalation/resolution of open items.• Researched and validated breaks due to corporate actions, income generated on fixed income securities like MBS, ABS, Bank Loans against BLOOMBERG. • Performed Cash reconciliation between custody and accounting • Worked with internal teams like derivatives, trade processing, corporate action & conversion team to resolve the accounting breaks or any other issues.• Supported HCL Cash team and core accounting Team by giving them knowledge, tools, and resources to complete their daily and monthly tasks and made sure they meet deadlines.• Spot checked Trade Reconciliations, Cash Wire Report, Bank Balance reports, Bank Account Close and Open Report to for appropriate comments. Spot checked SMF’s for timely review• Completed Asset Reconciliation Summary Report, ensured comments are consistent• Updated client matrix for new/closed funds, SharePoint tasks, asset reconciliation database, cash apps and Investment Trade Workstation for new/closed portfolios.• Assisted manager during Internal control reviews and during transitions phase on system setup, raising access • Reviewed client-specific procedures to look for automation or processing improvements as well as one-off processing or non-compliance with best practice

• My responsibilities here included maintaining financial security by following internal accounting controls, paying invoices, scheduling and preparing disbursements, reconciling statements, resolving account discrepancies.

• Prepared and filed Income tax, Service tax, VAT & TDS returns, maintained statutory books of accounts, finalised year-end financial statements and spearheaded audit for corporate and non-corporate assesses• Assisted in preparation of audit proposals and drafting audit reports to be presented to the client as per deadline