Akhil M R

A consulting professional with more than 6 years of experience in business process and IT risk and control reviews looking out for new challenges and new experiences. Positive, ambitious and motivated, has performed impactful reviews for clients in variety of sectors – ITeS/ IT, FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Real Estate, Cab aggregators. Proven background in working with cross cultural teams and providing supervision and mentoring opportunities to associates

Amazon Development Centre (India) Pvt Ltd Hyderabad

Finance Operations Specialist, Payroll

Current Assurance support for statutory audit, testing controls on applications, IPEs, IUCs,

automated business controls

SOX audit support to Operations team by preparation of documents for SOX 302, review of data, testing of controls, identify gaps and support closure of non-compliance

Perform independent inspections basis key KPI and matrix, to identify process improvement or gaps and support in effective implementation of recommended actions

Conducting walkthroughs with process stakeholders, identifying design and operating deficiencies, reporting deficiencies and remediation testing

Responsible for recommending controls in automated environments, reviewing system process design and suggesting governance framework for key processes

Support processing team with providing feedback on SOP’s for key processes

July 2018

January 2021

EY LLP Bangalore

Consultant

Project managed risk reviews for clients in sectors such as ITeS/ IT. Lead team reviews covering various areas such as Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Contract management, Inventory and other areas covering operations and subsidiaries based out of

India, UK and China which involved interactions with the overseas regional teams.

Delivered operational risk reports with observations having meaningful impact to the board

Was responsible for process understandings and system walkthroughs, developing risk and control matrices, testing of application controls, identification of design and operational gaps, discussing observations with process owners, identifying improvement opportunities and system enhancements through automation and integration and the drafting of reports,

co-ordination with implementation partners to ensure timely actions for issues / challenges

Skills

Internal Audit

IFC

SOX 302, 404

GDPR

Governance Risk and Compliance

MS Visio

Project management

Stakeholder management

Professional summary

MS Office Data analytics

Was responsible for project planning, adequate and appropriate resource allocation,

leading and guiding team members on the project, timely and quality execution and closure

Carried out administrative and QRM (quality risk management) tasks – engagement code creation, drafting of engagement letters, delivering transmittal letter to clients, reviewing and ensuring documentation upload by team members, timely generation of invoices and collection

Played a key role in transformation projects for one of the largest IT companies in India involving design review of various process. Part of an operational review for a multibilliondollar

IT company which involved assessment of project delivery framework

December 2017 EY LLP Bangalore

Associate Consultant

July 2018

Played key roles in completing SOX & IFC engagements for large IT clients.

Rationalization exercise and preparation of Risk Control Matrix and Process flow documents.

Support

Senior team members with preparation of engagement letters,

proposal document and revenue tracking

October 2015

March 2017

KPMG Resource Centre, Bangalore Bangalore

Audit Associate, Assurance

Part of the UK offshore support team involved in the planning, risk assessment, control testing, substantive procedures and conclusion phase of the audits. Substantive &

controls testing: Fixed Assets (reconciliation, depreciation, additions and disposal testing), Cash and Bank (bank reconciliation and review), Payroll testing

(including NIC and pension contribution), Equity reconciliations, Impairment review,

Unrecorded liabilities testing, Inter-company balances testing, Inventories testing and cut-off testing

Ratio Analysis, Trend Analysis of data: Performing planning and final analytics to identify changes in trends, verify material changes to gain comfort over assertions

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Member