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 secure 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.

📌 Assistant Manager (Pune)
🏢 Forvis Mazars
📍 Pune