Associate 2

Associate - 2, Audit

Company : Client of Miles Education (One of the Big 4s)

Location : Kolkata

Qualification : CA Qualified (May 2024/Nov 2024 pass outs)

Experience : 0 to 1 year (freshers preferred)

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

Key Responsibilities:

• Audit service delivery: Be a part of the team that is responsible for audit service delivery and ensure timely and quality audit deliverables on the work done by self and by other junior team members.
• Content & industry focus: Build strong domain expertise (accounting & auditing) and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with US ET and improve quality of work performed from GDC.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Be an integral part of teams assigned as Dedicated teams for US audit engagement teams.
• Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of industry specific audit procedures.
• Ensure the work is performed with high quality and completed within agreed turnaround time.
• Timely raise any issues identified to the GDC Seniors, Managers and ET so that the quality and turnaround time are not impacted.
• Provide clarifications, train and mentor junior associates on a timely basis on industry specific audit and accounting knowledge and client specific matters on audit work papers.
• Perform upfront reviews wherever required for deliverables and as advised by the team lead.
• Plan and organize the work in such a way that the Quality and Efficiency are not impacted on the deliverables.
• Interact and seek clarifications from US rotational and ET points of contact.
• Understand and capture comments during Quality and Risk Management team (QRM) review and from ET to provide feedback to junior associates.
• Work on improvement in audit work papers based on ET feedback.
• Continuously adopt process improvements and work towards improving efficiency in the performance of audit.
• Develop self by participating in and developing others by facilitating audit conceptual training.
• Participate in firms strategic initiatives and/or corporate social responsibility programs.

Technical Skills:

• Audit and accounting knowledge.
• Good knowledge of MS Office (with an emphasis on MS Excel skills).
• Strong English communication skills (Oral & Written).

Enabling Skills:

• Attention to detail and quality consciousness.
• Be a quick learner and demonstrate adaptability to change.
• Should be willing to and capable of delivering under tight timelines, basis the business needs including working on weekends.