Experience – 3 to 8 yrs

Location – Chennai

About the role

As a Senior Associate, Client Audit Team, you will drive impactful contributions and focus on outcomes. You will be a key member of the Client Audit team, collaborating with Client account teams, functional teams, management, and senior leadership while reporting to the Director, Client Audit.

You will support and lead client-initiated and pre-emptive audit engagements, helping provide risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight aligned with organizational strategies, objectives, and risks. You will have opportunities to work in a global environment, gain exposure to multiple audit types, develop new skills, and contribute to continuous improvements in audit delivery.

In this role, you will:

- Lead audit engagements across the planned scope and risk areas, including understanding engagement objectives, business processes, functions, and systems, and developing audit procedures and planning documentation for review.
- Coordinate client-initiated and pre-emptive audit activities with Client account and functional teams, including audit calls, responses, testing, deliverables, reporting, and Resolution Action Plan updates.
- Assess identified gaps and improvement opportunities, evaluate their significance, recommend appropriately aligned remediation actions, and support discussions on detailed audit findings before final report issuance.
- Produce complete, accurate, organized, and clear audit work products independently while ensuring audit documentation and worksteps are promptly recorded in the Client Audit tool.
- Manage project status, milestones, special projects, and ad-hoc requests while leveraging approved AI tools and developing fit-for-purpose agents to improve audit efficiency, accuracy, and insight generation.




- Embrace Cognizant's culture by striving for excellence, focusing on meaningful outcomes, collaborating effectively, prioritizing quality, staying curious, taking ownership, building relationships, and committing to continuous learning.

What you must have to be considered

- A minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in audit, accounting, finance, operations, risk, or compliance.
- Ability to work independently within a large, multinational, geographically dispersed environment.
- Ability to effectively engage and build working relationships with various levels of management and senior leadership.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage large quantities of information and data, think critically, multitask, and solve problems effectively.
- Demonstrated professional standards, integrity, and ethical behavior.
- A strong sense of ownership, a desire to create meaningful outcomes, and passion for work that serves customers, communities, or global challenges.
- Embodiment of Cognizant's Values: Work as One, Dare to Innovate, Raise the Bar, Do The Right Thing, and Own It.

These will help you succeed

- Working knowledge of approved AI tools and the ability to identify practical opportunities to use AI and fit-for-purpose agents in audit activities.

- Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), MBA, or comparable graduate degree in business or finance.
- Experience coordinating client-initiated or internal audit engagements from planning through testing and reporting.
- Experience assessing control gaps, developing remediation recommendations, and tracking Resolution Action Plans.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development through relevant training, seminars, feedback, and certifications.

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