Embark on a career journey at EY, where global scale, supportive culture, and cutting-edge technology empower you to achieve your full potential. Contribute your unique perspective to enhance EY's success and help build a better working world for everyone. This Senior role within EY GDS FAAS (Control and Compliance) focuses on providing expert advisory services in accounting and regulatory matters, including accounting change, special projects, and robust control frameworks.

As an SOX professional, you will leverage your qualifications as a CA/CPA/ACCA/MBA and your experience in Internal Financial Controls (IFC) and SOX audit processes. The position involves managing significant projects encompassing SOX implementation, documentation, control testing, internal control evaluation, financial reporting reliability, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Your core responsibilities will involve technical delivery and subject matter expertise. This includes executing SOX and IFC designs, walkthroughs, and implementations; performing business process reviews with flowchart and RCM creation; conducting risk assessments to identify key accounts; preparing comprehensive SOX documentation; testing control design and operating effectiveness with a focus on improvements; and leading SOX compliance phases from walkthroughs to reporting. You will also support audit planning and execution, clearly communicate control deficiencies, and oversee remediation efforts. Decision-making, process optimization, resource management, and team supervision are crucial for task execution and performance evaluation.

Furthermore, you will contribute to business development and solution development. This entails leading pursuit teams to understand client needs and formulate solutions, developing client-specific strategies, leading proposal development, and collaborating with market teams to foster relationships and drive business growth. Cross-service line collaboration is key for smooth project execution. You will also lead internal capability development, conduct training sessions, and spearhead operational initiatives within practice areas.

To excel in this role, you need strong business, technical, and human skills. Essential business skills include robust business development, solution conceptualization, product build capabilities, and excellent project management. Human skills encompass exceptional written and oral communication, a flexible work attitude, proven ability to lead diverse global teams, strong collaboration, quick comprehension of complexity, comfort with ambiguity, entrepreneurial ownership of problems and solutions, strong problem-solving abilities, and effectiveness under pressure. Willingness to travel on short notice is also required.

Professionally, you must be a CA/CPA/ACCA with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience. Specifically, 2-7 years of experience in SOX/IFC implementation is necessary, along with proven experience in RACM, control testing, and remediation. A strong understanding of the COSO framework and PCAOB requirements is essential. Knowledge of financial statements (Indian/US GAAP), strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, and proficiency in Excel, Word, Visio, and MS Office tools are also mandatory. Experience with international clients and previous Big4 or multinational consulting firms is preferred.