Priya RS

Experience

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  Brahmayya & Co., Chartered Accountants

  Aug 2008 - Sept 2011

  Article Assistant

  Knowledge process supportFormed a part of a team involved in the study and risk evaluation of the various businesses processes of the client entity to support the knowledge acquisition process of the auditor with respect to statutory audit of a new client. Highlights• Created Business process charts for the various processes.• Undertook an analysis of the processes to assess detection and control risk levels of the entity.Data migration auditAudited the accuracy of data migrated to the new ERP system for the entity’s legacy system. Control risk evaluation and risk mitigationFormed a part of the team involved in identifying internal control weaknesses that contribute to the entity risk profile and recommending changes in areas where the risk exceeded the entity’s risk appetite. The audit process included proactive interaction with the top management to ensure operational feasibility of the changes recommended to ensure risks are effectively mitigated.Highlights1.Evaluated interaction with various applications used by the entity such as biometrics attendance systems.2.Risks evaluated included slack in the entity’s processes that presented a non value adding drain on the entity’s resources. Statutory ComplianceHeaded the team involved in certifying the Provident fund and Employee State insurance compliance of a large third party service provider and have been a part of various teams involved in the audit of income tax and service tax.Financial reportingHave been a part various teams and headed branch out teams involved in statutory financial reporting under Indian GAAP. Areas worked on include consolidation of foreign and local subsidiaries, ensuring proper capitalisation of assets, accounting for contracts, accounting for leases, accounting for employee related benefits, accounting for inventories.Formed a part of a team involved in the authentication of the entity’s implementation of XBRL. Show less

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  EY

  Sept 2012 - Feb 2017

  Interactive data visualizationWas involved in visualizing large volumes of data to enable identification of exceptions, with the ability to drill down to the grass root level Data analytics support I am currently involved in various projects that focus on analytics requirement for different client projects undertaken by the assurance and advisory teams. These assignments require me to incorporate my domain expertise in the field of finance and audit and incorporate them into the data analysis model, which in turn helps the assurance/advisory teams identify and understand the audit risk areas. Highlights• Integration of domain expertise into software models• Handling multiple teams and ensure projects are brought to successful closure within the targeted time.• Status reporting to all stake holders in the project.• Internal reporting to the leadership on resource utilization and profitability.• Actively involved in promoting and creating awareness of the Data Analytics team capability and the value add offered to teams engaged in various client pursuits. Contract Risk AnalysisFormed part of the team that undertook the review of the client’s contracts with vendors, understand the terms and conditions, rate cards and developing rule sets which can be tested with the transactions Show less

  • Manager

    Aug 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Senior Consultant

    Aug 2014 - Jul 2016

  • Consultant

    Sept 2012 - Jul 2014
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  KPMG Global Services (KGS)

  Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

  Manager

  Currently leading 12+ member team working to build the custom solutions. This solution will be bespoke or tailor made to each of the problem statement in External Audit.

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  EY

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Manager Analytics

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Manager

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
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  Palo Alto Networks

  Mar 2022 - now

  Audit Analytics Leader