Manthan Thakkar

Experience

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  K.C. Mehta & Co.

  Dec 2007 - Jun 2011

  Article assistant

  During articleship I worked under different Areas of Auditing and Consulting. Gist of it :Internal Audits - which included Cost Audit and HR Audit as well,Statutory Audits of Pvt. Ltd. Co.,VAT Audits, andFilling of Tax Returns.

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  Infosys

  Jun 2012 - Feb 2014

  Associate Consultant

  Worked as an Associate Functional Consultant for SAP FICO in manufacturing vertical of Consulting and System Integration (CSI) domain. Got trained and certified in SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) module by Enterprise Solutions Academy (ESA) of Infosys Technologies Limited.Job responsibilities include Understanding of the issue; diagnosing its root cause, seeking clarifications; identifying and short listing solution alternatives in order to resolve the issues according to guidelines. Understanding business requirement and testing the developed solution in different practical scenarios. Deliver full knowledge support to client on varied areas of FICO – GL accounting, Cost center accounting, Intercompany transactions, Taxation, Accounts Payables, Account receivables, Asset Accounting, Planning and Product Costing and Bank Accounting. Customizing and configuring various areas of IMG like Defining Basic data, Structure, global Settings and assigning the same to respective areas. Supported in month end reporting activities like FI-PCA transfers and Depreciation runs. Handled issues pertaining to WBS elements and Project systems as well. Had been a part of team handling development of BI module of SAP for providing different reports as per client’s requirement and provided support for the same post implementation.Client : Rio Tinto Group of Companies. Show less

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  PwC India

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2016

  Working with the System and Process Assurance department, supporting the Statutory Audit team.Job responsibilities covers areas like Business process understanding, Testing automated controls through configuration, performing access rights analysis through ACL, JV analysis, analyzing system reports, testing IT General Controls and observe system migration activity.Business process like Purchase to Pay, Revenue Receivables, Asset Management & Payroll covered in SAP reviews.Expertise over data analytics tools like ACL (Standard) and ACE (Internally developed for SAP Accesses).Checking the controls in system through walk through procedures taking into considerations Internal control Framework (like COSO). Further analyzing the impact of control weaknesses over Financials.Evaluating and testing the controls identify in the whole population and analyzing the impact in case control is not implemented or if any discrepancy is found. Testing changes made to customized reports used by client and audit team. Analyzing the impact of same on the purpose of report and confirming the accuracy of data.Experience over auditing different systems like SAP ECC6, Oracle 11 and JD Edwards. Show less

  • Senior Associate

    Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Associate

    Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
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  Marico Limited

  Mar 2016 - Oct 2019

  Manager

  Manager Governance & Operations - IT * Controller - SAP GRC (Access Control) - Includes managing and reviewing existing risk rule sets and user accesses.* Lead for implementing and reviewing existing IT general controls around financially significant applications like SAP.* Responsible for conducting System and Process controls audit for global subsidiaries of Marico. Also team member in implementing audit findings in SAP.* Audit coordinator for Internal as well as Statutory auditors. Primarily responsible for process and system controls and RACM for IFC reporting. Show less

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  Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group

  Nov 2019 - now

  Key Responsibility* Assisting Chief Internal Auditor reviewing and updating Audit department’s KPI.* Review existing audit function processes and driving automation.* Quarterly reports of Audit status and periodic findings for presentation to Management.* Managed end-to-end migration of audit related data analytics dashboards from Tableau to PowerBI and managing it post migration.* New system implementations reviews Key Responsibilities:* Performed multiple full-scope audit assignments for sub-group companies.* Review of audit conducted by team members.* Implemented Security Enforcer, a tool for monitoring SAP access and SOD conflicts.* Performed IT Cost Charge-back review for whole group.* Conducted multiple incentive policy reviews. Key Responsibilities at ESAG:* Surprise Audit Assignments.* Periodic review of IT Application Controls.* Conducted Business Fraud assessment assignments.* SAP Access Control Monitoring and Review.

  • Manager

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Assistant Manager

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Internal Audit Supervisor

    Nov 2019 - Dec 2020