Manager Management

NALINI PARAMESHWAR, C.A.

**F, Reading Road, Edison, New Jersey 08817

cell: 732-***-**** home: 732-***-**** email: ********@*****.***

SEASONED AUDITING MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Internal Audits * Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Compliance * SOX 404 * Documentation & Testing

Financial Reporting * FCPA Audits * U.S. GAAP * Risk Advisory * SOP Policies & Procedures

PROFILE

Experienced, self motivated and high caliber Auditing Manager with distinguished experience specializing in leading internal audits,

SOX 404 documentation and testing, process improvement reviews, compliance and financial audits, and Enterprise Risk

Management services for Fortune 500 companies. Seeking an Internal Audit position in which I can transfer strong leadership,

value added abilities, and employee management experience to a world class, high integrity company.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional experience and a track record of upward growth and promotion leading and directing teams in

conducting internal audits requiring strong US GAAP / financial reporting knowledge and expertise

• Seasoned in the areas of contract risk management, vendor audits and FCPA audits and in drafting standard

operating procedures and policies while leading the efforts of teams

• Strong SEC, SOX reporting and compliance experience working with clients, effectively evaluating internal controls

over financial reporting for technology and business risk

• Tremendous experience leading client key processes and sub processes, demonstrating the acumen to effectively

communicate findings directly to the Controller and/or CFO as well as multiple stakeholders including external

auditors

• Specialty in control optimization, successfully reducing redundancy and hours incurred

• Highly effective in leading multi country and multi cultural resources as a global team leader

• Experienced working with clients in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical and biotech, retail, financial

research and governance, automobile, chemical manufacturing, media and entertainment, IT and financial services as

well as hospitality

• Involved in all phases of planning, monitoring of test results, tracking of remediation testing and control gap

assessment while managing multiple clients

• Enthusiastic team leader focused on inspiring, leading and motivating engagement teams in creating and maintaining

an atmosphere conducive to self directed work groups offering technical guidance and insight

• Highly effective in cultivating and managing relationships with entities including senior management, high level

business leaders and internal and external audiences

• Exceptional leadership, organizational, interpersonal, oral/written communication, analytical and problem resolution

skills with the ability to multi task and resolve issues within set deadlines

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Attained recognition for (2010) “on the job coaching” award for coaching, mentoring and developing the staff

• Awarded the prestigious “EY Gold Card” (2008) for delivering outstanding quality work and excellent leadership

• Recipient of Bravo Award (2010) – SOX audit for a large discounted retail chain

• Consistent performance appraisal rated as “Exceeds Expectations”

CLIENT RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS

• Spearheaded global team management for offshore work in India, defined advantages and parameters in achieving a

profitability increase of 8%

• Instrumental in discovering and recommending areas for improvement/process standardization that resulted in

savings of 30% for procurement and logistic costs

• Effectively designed and reassessed the frame of key controls that successfully increased reliance on automated

controls by 25%, thereby increasing efficiency and saving time and cost for the company

• Significant findings related to an FCPA audit and streamlining processes and controls around the key expense areas.

• Enacted control optimization measures that eliminated 80 controls and reduced 800 hours

• Led global teams in locations worldwide, interviewing and screening candidates to match the client needs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ernst & Young – U.S. Northeast (Manager) 09/25/06 – Present

Risk Advisory Services Practice

• Successfully affords leadership in directing a wide variety of internal audit projects (operational and financial) and

process reviews for Global SEC clients encompassing areas relating to financial reporting and all related cycles

including consolidation and financial close, purchase to pay, order to cash, entity level, payroll, treasury, and debt

endeavors

• Directly manages and leads the efforts of a team of 6 7 reports at one time, with further accountability for 2 3

additional reports in IT

• Effectively leads and directs productive endeavors drawing upon the strengths of multi cultural resources

• Played an integral role as 1 of 2 members on a development of an internal audit toolkit in the Northeast region that

contributed and collaborated to the successful results of a larger global team

• Successfully directs efforts in risk assessment and risk based audits, ensuring client’s internal control processes are

optimized in order to reduce time, costs, and maximize overall efficiency

• Afforded documentation (Process flow charts and narratives) and test of control design and operating effectiveness,

identifying key controls and drafting risk and control matrix and test strategies, performing walkthroughs, identifying

gaps and assisting clients in developing remediation plans for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley

• Successfully leads project management efforts in respect to drafting, managing and supervising budgets

• Proactively implements audit strategy by defining audit scope, audit program & audit test procedures

• Performs reviews and testing around application controls in support of business processes

• Drafts SOP and policies and procedures around accruals and foreign currency transactions

• Proactively reviews all accounts related to the balance sheet and P&L accounts determining the input, activity,

accounting impact for each account and class of accounts for acquired companies; devised process descriptions and

drafted issues and recommendations as a result of the integration

• Served as a trainer for new hires and trained a class of about 15 – 20 in GRC

Ernst & Young – India (Consultant/ Senior) 03/14/05 – 05/15/06

Business Risk Services

• Led Enterprise Risk Assessment measures covering all major Strategic, Operations, Compliance and Financial risks

• Accurately documented fraud risks, fraud schemes and the identification of controls that effectively mitigate fraud

risks

• Involved in all phases of planning, monitoring of test results, tracking of remediation testing and control gap

assessment

• Experienced in leading the execution and supervision of Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) audits

• Instrumental in designing risk and control framework as well as to test the design and operating effectiveness of the

controls.

• Executed benchmarking and KPI reviews for HR and AP processes.

Deloitte & Touché India (Staff) 08/9/1999 08/08/02 & 02/16/04 – 11/09/04

Audit & Assurance

• Effectively planned, coordinated and administered financial statement audits, agreed upon procedures and carve out

audits for both public and private companies.

• Led and executed audit engagements through creating client request lists, mobilizing engagement teams, assessing

and documenting client internal controls, preparing internal reporting memoranda, executing substantive tests of

accounts, and performing analytical procedures for various income statement and balance sheet accounts

• Proficiently conducted substantive testing on the Balance Sheet and Income Statements

EDUCATION

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Chartered Accountancy

Bachelor of Commerce (Majored in Audit & Accounting) from the best school in India

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficient in using various systems and Audit tools viz Lotus Notes, Auto Audit (GRC), Risk Navigator, AWS, MS Excel

(Advanced), MS Visio (Advanced), MS Word, PowerPoint, SAP (Beginner), Oracle (Beginner), Epicor (Beginner), Oracle

Discoverer (Beginner) and BI (Beginner)

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