Rajarshi Mukherjee

Rajarshi Mukherjee, CIA, CISA, is an accomplished internal audit, internal controls and risk management professional with over eight years of experience across the Manufacturing, Power, Retail, and IT sectors. He most recently served as the Team Lead in Assurance Risk and Internal Control at Hitachi Energy, where he managed a global team for Management Testing. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Manager in Risk Advisory at Deloitte India, leading North & South American testing teams and contributing to global risk-based audit initiatives.

Rajarshi holds an M. Tech in Power Electronics, an MBA in Operations Management, and certifications in Six Sigma Black Belt (Kennesaw State) and Supply Chain Management (Rutgers). Committed to professional excellence, he is currently pursuing his Advanced AI Audit (AAIA).

Team Lead – Assurance Risk and Internal Control at Hitachi Energy Technology Services Private Limited (2022-07 – Present)

• Determined the annual testing scope across 45+ countries and 800+ controls (business process and IT general controls), applying quantitative and qualitative risk criteria to align with parent-entity governance requirements, then allocated testing workload across a 15-person team based on business and risk priorities.
• Led testing design and operational effectiveness (TOD & TOE) of Internal Controls based on J-SoX requirements.
• Responsible for Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) for 250+ business and IT controls organization-wide, coordinating testing timelines and outcomes with external auditors, and served as the primary point of contact for testing methodology, results, and audit queries — ensuring consistent Second Line oversight of First Line control execution.
• Led the TOD & TOE management, testing 400+ controls across North & South America as Testing Manager, directly coaching and supervising up to 8 team members.
• Partnered with a newly onboarded entity's stakeholders as project coordinator and point of contact, responsible for aligning Business Process and Entity-level controls, identifying process & control gaps, designing remediation plans, and validating implementation as part of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Automated control-testing dashboards with Power BI, cutting manual effort by 80%; produced the organization's annual deficiency and root-cause reporting (80+ items) for senior stakeholders; and managed loan-staffed consultant resourcing across 100+ controls and 8 consultants — work recognized with multiple individual/team awards and a CFO webcast feature.
• Maintained the GRC tool by coordinating with the in-house specialists and the vendors.

Assistant Manager – Risk Advisory, A & IC: IT & Specialized Assurance at Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu India LLP (2021-11 – 2022-07)

• Led as a Testing Manager on a Global J-SOX engagement for a power grid manufacturing conglomerate, delivering TOD & TOE reviews across 400+ Internal Controls for the North & South American region, including direct engagement with the Global CFO on Business Process control testing.
• Managed a distributed team of 5 across multiple locations, overseeing work paper review and deficiency/remediation discussions, while drafting status reports and weekly utilization reports for the broader 20+ person team and presenting internally to the Delivery Manager (SOX Head, India).
• Recognized with multiple "Best Testing Manager" awards for collaboration and contribution to the engagement.

Consultant – Risk Advisory, Operational Risk at Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP (2018-07 – 2021-02)

• Collaborated with the Human Capital transformation team for a business transformation engagement for a major retail (jewelry) client identifying process gaps and drafting SOPs for Hire to Retire process across national and international entities, also highlighting brand image and processes misalignments through in-store visits.
• Responsible for multiple internal audits field works and risk-based audit testing across Order to Cash, Contra-COGS, Reimbursements, Inventory Management, Non-Retail Procurement, and Hire to Retire processes.
• Presented audit reports to the clients' Audit Committees.
• Managed a team of up to 9 members spread across geography for a SOX engagement where focused on Internal Control testing for North & South America location for a global manufacturing conglomerate (500+ controls), including designing and implementing post-merger SAP integration procedures for Order to Cash SOX compliance.

Associate 2 – Risk Assurance Service (RAS), Assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP (2021-02 – 2021-11)

• Led teams of (3–4 members) across engagements, including a brand-sensitive & time-critical CSR assignment and a local-client audit where the quality of deliverable and stakeholder management converted it into a key regional client.
• Responsible for the fieldwork, chargeability, and deliverables for a team of up to 5 members for a fraud risk analysis engagement, identifying several high-value fraud instances that were recognized by the client.
• Headed the fieldwork for an internal audit of a not-for-profit organization (20MUSD+ annual revenue), driving significant changes to finance, accounting, and payroll processes and recommending Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) for Grant Management and Travel Reimbursement.

Assistant Professor – Electrical Engineering at Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management (2014-06 – 2016-06)

Assistant Professor – Electrical Engineering at Bengal College of Engineering and Technology for Women (2013-08 – 2014-05)

MBA in Operations Management – Symbiosis International University (2016-06 – 2018-04)

M.Tech in Power Electronics – WBUT (2011-06 – 2013-04)

B.E. in Electrical Engineering – Pune University (2006-06 – 2010-04)