Assistant Manager

Assistant Manager

Experience required - 5 to 7 Years

Role & responsibilities

• Oversee a team of 12-14 junior team members all based in Pune.
• Lead and direct multiple IT External Audit engagements across UK-based clients.
• Own engagement planning, including scope definition, risk assessment, timelines, resource allocation, and budgeting.
• Monitor budget versus actuals and proactively address financial variances.
• Challenge and refine risk assessments to ensure key IT, cybersecurity, and data risks are appropriately addressed.
• Oversee testing of ITGCs, ITACs, IPE, system interfaces, and automated controls across complex IT landscapes.
• Evaluate control environments against SOX, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, GDPR and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Review workpapers with a risk-focused lens, ensuring technical accuracy, completeness, and alignment with firm methodology (MAM).
• Act as primary point of contact for client IT leadership, finance teams, and audit stakeholders.
• Lead formal planning meetings, status updates, and closing meetings with senior client management.
• Escalate significant risks, control failures, or scope deviations to Senior Managers and Partners in a timely and structured manner.
• Ensure reporting is clear, balanced, commercially aware, and defensible.
• Drive consistency and quality across engagements, strengthening documentation standards and review discipline.
• Lead, mentor and develop Assistant Managers and junior team members through structured feedback and regular 1:1 discussion.
• Identify high-potential individuals and actively support succession planning within the practice.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and psychologically safe team environment.
• Manage team capacity effectively, ensuring delivery continuity during resource transitions.
• Stay ahead of emerging risks including cloud transformation, AI adoption, cybersecurity threats, and data governance developments.
• Promote innovation through the use of data analytics and automation within IT audit testing.
• Contribute to methodology enhancements, training initiatives, and firm-wide quality improvement programmes.
• Support recruitment, talent pipeline development, and cross-service collaboration within Technology & Digital.

Preferred candidate profile

• 710+ years of relevant IT Audit experience, including demonstrable experience leading IT External Audit engagements within Banking or Financial Services.
• Extensive experience performing and overseeing ITGC, ITAC and IPE testing across complex and integrated system landscapes.
• Strong exposure to core banking platforms, lending systems, trading platforms, and enterprise ERP environments (e.g., SAP, Oracle or similar).
• Deep understanding of regulatory and control frameworks including SOX, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, GDPR and relevant FRC expectations.
• Strong technical knowledge of infrastructure environments including Windows Server, Unix, Linux, and database platforms such as SQL, and Oracle.
• Proven experience managing a portfolio of engagements, including planning, resourcing, budget monitoring and delivery oversight.
• Ability to challenge control environments, identify thematic risks, and assess impact from both a technical and commercial perspective.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including interaction with senior client IT and finance leadership.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and signing off work to a high technical standard.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management and talent development.