Asmita Sharma *

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Career Objective:

Bring ambition to work and ensure that the business consistently grows leaps and bounds. The numbers matter. Professionally delivered business made simple.

Ernst & Young LLP

Analyst 3 – Risk Advisory

June 2019 to Present

My stint with EY continues to teach me that Technology and innovation are at the forefront of every Internal audit or SOX engagement and unless we know how to integrate these ideas with our work, we are running behind. Some of my accomplishments with EY are:

Initiated Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on a SOX engagement, which led to a more efficient utilisation of time and cost savings upward of $ 100 per resource per day.

Assessed the COVID-19 impact on the total shrink on all the stores for a footwear and apparels client.

Ensured compliance of FASB Accounting standards, by ensuring that the accounting considerations as highlighted in the standards are fully complied with, by the client. (ASC 450/310/ 810).

Cross verified the pricing term sheet of an SEC Registered firm, to ensure that all it’s notes are set at a redemption price by using the most appropriate treasury rates.

Designing, testing, reporting and maintaining IT General Controls and Application level controls in support of SOC -1 / SOC – 2 audits and client service level agreements.

Handled processes around revenue recognition, inventory management, warranties, fixed assets and made recommendations for process improvements and efficiency enhancements.

Designed process control flow charts to facilitate identification of key controls, performed root cause analysis, carried out remediation plans wherever necessary and SOX development and testing for diverse clientele.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC),

Senior Analyst – Risk Advisory

May 2018 to May 2019

Performed internal audits and business process improvements with an intent to figure out and eliminate design gaps and consequently strengthen the internal control systems of my clients. Some responsibilities for major clients at PwC include-

Business process reviews of marketing covering ATL, BTL, Partnerships and procurement and distribution of merchandise, checking controls around merchant on-boarding, customer management, review of change and access management for master database to test their system controls, incentives to sales personnel – for a (Food delivery app) Client.

As part of the outbound logistics and POS warehousing controls, tested compliance of the agreement with vendors, Space utilization, inter warehouse stock transfers, load optimization and transport infrastructure, selection/renewal and SLA Monitoring of vendors for an optical products Company.

Performed capability assessment covering all core functions across the value chain, customer due diligence, detected the possibility of frauds and excess pay-outs for a diversified real estate client.

Introduced and put in place new processes and structures while performing Entity Level Controls (ELC), that helped achieve better administration of risk management and financial reporting systems of the client.

Deloitte &Touché LLP,

Audit Associate – Advisory (Finance)

Jan 2018 to March 2018

Performed market value testing, Equity testing, Mutual Funds Redemptions and subscriptions testing, hedge funds testing, master and feeder funds testing, dividend, interest income testing, management fees, other expenses testing, and various other forms of financial testing.

Designed and executed audit procedures based on my understanding of the client’s business, the risk it faces and its internal control processes.

Key Contributions

Got INR 65 million reimbursed from the Central Government to one of my clients, by claiming retrospective concession, under the Act.

Prepared a checklist of up to 50 pages upon analyzing agreements over 5000 pages, because of which the checklist got updated in the master file records of our office, which is now a mandatory compliance for all audit managers and trainees as well.

Trained the staff of one of my clients on the pros and cons of installing software and automating their key operations which led to their staff having faith on the software. Asmita Sharma 2

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Bansal & Co. (A public accounting firm in New Delhi), Audit Assistant – Risk Advisory

April 2013- April 2016

My three-year CA Internship experience allowed me the opportunity to align myself with teams that cater to various business verticals such as pharmaceuticals, hospitality industry etc. Also undertook third party solutions to reduce cost and prevent revenue leakage for my client. Some of the major clients have been –

Settlement of investment transactions I.e., mutual funds, reverse repos, equity, and debt instruments etc., Net Asset value calculation, updating and reporting to Bloomberg – For the treasury team of Insurance Co.

Application of The US Government’s Accounting and Auditing standards; Preparing Fund accountability Statement (FAS), Compliance of service & sub-grant agreements, drafting the requisite reports and submitting to the white house, U.S.A. for a US based NGO. Computer skills

EMS Deloitte Audit Software, R programming language, M-Fund software, Tally ERP accounting package, case ware auditing software, MS- Visio

MS-office.

Basic working knowledge of Spotfire, Django and Python, Power BI and Power Apps, Alteryx, Microsoft Azure for AI

Educational qualifications

Chartered Accountancy (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Executive MBA from Hult International Business School and EY (Joint degree) - Pursuing

Bachelor’s degree in commerce with Major in Accounting and Finance from Indira Gandhi National Open University

Accreditations, certifications and Conferences

Bronze badge on Design Thinking – Innovation, issued by EY

Ernst & Young Global Limited’s certification on High Yield debt, Equity Options and Warrants.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by Deloitte University, Leadership Centre, Texas.

A certificate course on “Credit Risk Management” by Delft University of Technology, Netherland which covered Basel II and Basel III, basic measures of risk like Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, Important credit risk models like Merton’s model, the Moody’s KMV model, Credit Metrics™ and Credit Risk Plus™)

A certificate course on “Introduction to Corporate Finance” by The Corporate Finance Institute which covered the Capital raising process, Business valuation- both enterprise and equity value, Financing M&A, structuring considerations, debt and equity financing.

Basic French language course by Alliance Francaise. Personal attributes & Hobbies

Singing, travelling, Passionate blogger, constant reader, willing to be a Ted-X speaker. Volunteering Experience

Education for under-privileged children in association with an NGO “Free Pathshala.

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