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Mississauga, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hyderabad Area, India

o Lead multiple GITC Audit Engagements across different industrieso Liaison with Onsite team in planning work assignments and managed team to deliver high quality deliverable s by strictly adhering to the deadlines.o Responsible for performing reviews and help team members with audit queries.o Perform walkthroughs for different control areas and help clients in addressing gaps identified.o Demonstrated strong organisational capabilities with the ability to handle multiple priorities and fluctuating workloads while adhering to strict deadlines.o Demonstrated business professionalism, respect for confidentiality and appropriate handling of sensitive information.o Testing the design and operating effectiveness of the controls

Chennai Area, India

• Demonstrated strong organisational capabilities with the ability to handle multiple priorities and fluctuating workloads while adhering to strict deadlines.• Demonstrated business professionalism, respect for confidentiality and appropriate handling of sensitive information.• Liaison with the Control Owners to ensure compliance with the Risk Management framework• Testing the design and operating effectiveness of the controls falling under SOX compliance requirement and other internal controls.• Performed additional testing as per the Risk Management framework to ensure that the risk is appropriately mitigated by compensating controls.• Timely communication of the audit findings and reporting exceptions.• Liaise with process owners, control owners and application owners to discuss issues with the operation of the control and assisting them in better implementation of the controls.• Following up with the respective process, controls & application owners after the audit in order to ensure that issues and recommendations are addressed and implemented to be SOX and other industry compliance ready.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Responsible for performing operational information technology audits across multiple industries to assess internal control structures and evaluate compliance with policies, procedures and management objectives.• Information Technology General Controls / General Computer Controls as part of statutory audit support• Review information security of an organization by testing IT general computer controls.• Performed Service Organization Controls Reporting (SOC I – Type II) by testing controls around organization's process, logical access security, physical security and environmental security.• Perform physical and environmental Data Center audits as part information security audits.• Performed SOX Compliance audit.• Perform physical and environmental Data Center audits as part information security audits.• Review of Windows operating system security parameters, settings and system logs.• Review of UNIX, LINUX, SUN operating system's security parameters, settings and system logs.• Review of SAP, Oracle, POS, ACCPAC, PAYROLL and other in-house application’s security parameters, settings and system logs, change management, patch management, user management and incident management.• Third party vendor assessments.• Worked as a Business Development analyst. Major role was in to Federal contracting with the US Government, Negotiating with companies for possible Teaming options, Preparation and Drafting of various documents, Capability Statement and other documents required for teaming.SOX-Audit: • SOX Compliance Audit for a leading Liquor Manufacturing company.ERP: • Assisted in ERP Implementation Project for a Leading PSU in Mining Industry.• Study of the organization’s existing business process of different departments and modules.• Documentation of the As-Is study Process for Implementation.

Hyderabad Area, India

Education record

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.)