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Senior audit consultant - III,II,I; Audit consultant - III,II,I
Department: Assurance and business advisory services, Consumer and industrial products
Responsibilities:
• Managing of audit projects and related teams consisted from 2-5 people
• negotiation of audit timing, issues and audit report with the clients
• planning of projects including proposition of number of specialists broken down by grade, estimating of number of hours according to level of expertise needed
• searching, selecting and booking of specialists needed for a project according to budget
• task allocation between team members based on their experience, skills, difficulty of task and set deadline
• developing of junior colleagues through coaching process, helping them in difficult situations and obtaining of feedback from them
• setting of objectives for each team member of each project and evaluation of each team member by providing an appraisal and rating
• controlling and review through ensuring that required procedures are undertaken by team members and required high standards of quality of procedures and documentation are met
• communication with tax department ensuring that agreed scope, set materiality are followed, known key risks and suspected risks are addressed, tax memo is delivered within deadline
• communication with other specialists, e.g. valuation department, including setting of objective to review valuation report prepared by external valuator and applying of their results to financial statements
• documentation of all steps of thought process in planning according to internal quality standards
• Investigating, negotiation and making of agreement with the client about significant issues
• Drafting of deliverables (audit opinions, internal control recommendations memo, management representation letter with summary of unadjusted differences enclosed) for manager’s review
Audit assurance procedures
• understanding, validation and documentation of the client’s business processes: sales, purchases, payroll, fixed assets
• testing of key controls of mentioned processes in order to get comfort over their effectiveness and identifying of key risks are to be covered by substantive procedures
• substantive analytical and detailed audit procedures over the next financial sections:
o Profit and loss: sales, cost of sales, selling expenses, general and admin expenses, other income and expenses, financial income and expenses and others
o Balance sheet: fixed assets, construction in progress, intangibles, short and long-term equity and financial investments, short and long-term loans given, goodwill, deferred tax asset, raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, prepaid expenses, VAT input, accounts receivables, cash, share capital, reserves, short and long-term borrowings, deferred tax liability, accounts payable and others
• substantive analytical procedures: structure comparison with prior year, with budget, monthly fluctuation analysis, correlation etc.
• substantive detailed procedures: tracing of accounting transactions to supporting documents
• audit procedures over Explanatory notes to ensure its consistent with financial statements
Budgeting experience
• preparing of budgets for projects based on agreed contract’s fee, number of hours of specialists needed and minimum realization of 50% required
• allocation of budgeted hours broken down by specialists per each section of financial statements
• variance analyses of hours actually spent versus budget by each team member on a regularly basis
• control assurance procedures including obtaining of variances’ analyses of the client’s budgeted income and expenses versus actual ones for audited period to better understand control environment and goals and objectives of management
• applying of professional judgment and skepticism for all audit procedures including variances’ analyses regarding client’s budgets
Being in charge for the next clients:
• IFRS: Obiedinennie metallurgical zavodi (consolidation), Rodex Group (consolidation)
• Group reporting: AR Carton, Henkel Ecolab, “Junior achievements” (public organization), Amer Sports and others
• RAS: Reemtsma Volga (Imperial tobacco group), Novartis Pharma, Novartis Consumer Health, TNT Express, Sandoz, Ecolab (Henkel), Samarsky metallurgical plant, Ural steel plant, Glaxo Smith Kline and others
Key accomplishments:
• successfully finishing in 2008 year of very difficult audit project:
o project was started in 2004 year and lasted for 4 years (normal average duration is about 1 month)
o audit team was changed three times and not all issues and findings were properly documented
o the client’s accounting department and chief accountant were changed three times therefore some records and breakdowns were lost by the client
o there were also accounting system replacing from “Skala” into “SAP” and data migrating was done wrongly and inaccurate
o there were technical merging of regional branches broken down by individual accounting records in the system into single one which was needed to be also audited
o there were a lot material issues identified by the first audit team which were being negotiated for 2.5 years by myself with the client’s management, with my manager, with my director and with our methodological department
o as a result of small audit of 2004 year I identified more material issues including material cut-off of expenses which was caused the subsequent restoring of accounting records by the client
o I reached the resolution that the client adjusted its accounting books for 2005 year in 2007 which was actually nonsense
o it was the first PwC client in all history when I negotiated to re-issue of RSA financial statements which effected that related disclosure was included into Explanatory notes and emphasis of matter – into audit report
o I drafted of audit report with 6 very complicated qualifications
• I identified of a lot of material issues with audit opinion impact on most of my clients by my team, completed of all audit work by agreed deadline and with high quality of procedures and documentation standards