Jigar Gaglani

Experience

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  Ernst & Young LLP

  Jul 2009 - Jul 2010

  Consultant
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  Crowe

  Oct 2010 - Dec 2011

  Senior Auditor
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  PwC

  Feb 2012 - Sept 2018

  • Manager

    Oct 2015 - Sept 2018

  • Assistant Manager

    Oct 2013 - Sept 2015

  • Senior Associate

    Feb 2012 - Sept 2013
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  PwC

  Nov 2018 - Dec 2022

  Senior Manager
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  PwC Middle East

  Dec 2022 - now

  Director

  • Leading an audit service portfolio (non-FS) of over 30 clients including MNCs and iconic family businesses in Oman. • Building genuine relationships with my clients by ensuring that they receive deeper insights into their businesses and value beyond plain vanilla audits.• Effectively motivating and leading a team of over 50 onshore professionals (nationals and expatriates) to deliver highly coordinated, risk-focused, and efficient statutory audits. • Leading the ‘Clients and markets’ initiative in Oman for business development alongside the country and regional partners. I am directly responsible to create and manage the audit pipeline, rotation analyses, contributing towards complex channel choice considerations and senior client relationships pursuit management for the non-FS clients in Oman.• Successfully identifying and winning cross selling opportunities for other lines of services including taxation, deals (valuations) and consulting and Risk & internal controls assessments. • Leading the initiative for improving net margins and achieving overall audit efficiencies in terms of phasing of the work through effective use of our global technology and our offshore service delivery centers. • Leading the ‘People’ initiative in the Oman office. I have brought forward significant man-hours on my portfolio clients to Q3 and Q4 periods away from the peak Q1 and Q2 periods thereby helping to cut down the typical busy season peak and contributing towards a sustainable work-life balance of my team.• Formally mentoring and coaching several professionals in the manager & senior manager grade and contributing towards their upskilling. • I have been conducting multiple regional quality reviews (EQRs) across PwC network in GCC since the past 5 years to ensure compliance with the audit quality standards. • Delivering local and regional trainings related to IFRS, auditing standards and ongoing changes in the firm’s audit methodology practices up to Partner grades. Show less