Mridul Sood

Performing as an audit senior to assess quality risks and evaluate whether the firm's processes are appropriately designed to mitigate the identified risks in adherence with the ISQM1 Standard.

Facilitating client calls and serving as the primary contact to address any lingering questions that may arise.

Exhibiting adeptness in adapting and prioritizing tasks, partaking in internal initiatives such as developing an onboarding toolkit for new hires, constructing the SQM SharePoint site, and processing access requests as needed.

Collaborating with senior executives across multiple service lines for several processes, including Tax, FAIT, Ethics learning/Hotline, Risk Management, and CPE Compliance.

Maintaining professionalism with EY leadership to keep them informed about the progress of assigned processes.

Performing gap analysis between ISQM1 and QC1000 (New quality standard issued by PCAOB) to identify areas for improvement and at the same time providing suggestions for improvement.

• Allocation of controls to the team members, leading status update calls with the client, preparing, and updating the control status tracker.
• Performed risk assessment and process reviews for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and Record to Report.
• Identification of deviation and providing recommendations for improvement areas.
• Preparation of data requirement list and follow-ups on pending data to client.

• Secondment to EY Philadelphia Office.
• Reporting SOX testing results to the client.
• Planning and conducting internal audit for telecommunications, media and entertainment, real estate companies, and FMCG companies.
• Preparation and finalization of audit report.
• Preparation of Risk and Control Matrix for all business processes.

• Performed comprehensive audit procedures on areas including Fixed Assets, Stock, Taxation, debtors, Creditors, Overheads, and Cash/Bank, Budget Analysis, etc.
• Planning audit in terms of onsite visits and client meetings, preparing data requirement lists.
• Deep Dive analysis of cost overrun occurrence and identifying the root cause.
• Performed reviews for functional areas in scope - Accounting and Reporting, Procurement, Revenue, HR & Payroll, Fixed Assets, Inventory, etc.
• Identification of deviation, root cause analysis, providing recommendation, and agreeing on a remediation plan with the client.

• Working as an Internal Auditor for GMR Group.
• Preparation of consolidated financial statements of parent company.