SS&C Technologies India | Senior Associate - IT Audit (Mumbai - Goregaon)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT audit manager of the audit engagement to plan and develop work program timelines, and other planning documents.
• Work with the engagement team to document the business processes dependent on information technology.
• Evaluate IT general control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness in support of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Participate in walkthroughs with management and designs and executes tests of application controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

SS&C Technologies

Founded in 1986 as Securities Software & Consulting, SS&C started out in Bill Stone's basement and is now headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol SSNC. The company provides software and outsourced front-, middle- and back-office operations to financial services firms and healthcare organisations. Acquisitions such as GlobeOp (2012), Advent Software (2015) and DST Systems (2018) built up its fund administration and investor services business. SS&C first set up in India in 2003 and now has offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and GIFT City in Gandhinagar, where its unit SS&C GlobeOp is licensed by IFSCA to administer funds.

Fund accounting is the core of SS&C's finance hiring in India, covering private equity and hedge funds from senior associate up to director level. Other roles cover general ledger and financial reporting, US partnership tax (Form 1065), tax operations, and internal and IT audit, based in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Navi Mumbai and GIFT City. Postings usually ask for a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; some are aimed at Chartered Accountants, including newly qualified CAs in Pune, and one prefers CAs with Big 4 or multinational experience.

• Industry: Software and outsourced operations for financial services and healthcare: fund administration, fund accounting, transfer agency, investment and tax software
• Headquarters: Windsor, Connecticut, United States (SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.)
• In India: Offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and GIFT City (Gandhinagar), where SS&C GlobeOp holds an IFSCA licence for fund administration