CA SHEKHAR KUMAR ACHARYA
Chartered Accountant
Jajpur
Summary
Experienced Senior Associate driven to optimize processes and streamline operations for team efficiency. Decisive leader with an analytical and flexible approach to solving problems.
Overview
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Associate
PwC IAC Kolkata
8 2020 - Current
- Associated with the firm since August 2020, I am currently working as a Senior Associate in General Assurance.
- Trained and supported new team members, maintaining a culture of collaboration.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive successful completion of complex projects within deadlines.
- Mentored junior associates, fostering professional growth and helping them reach their full potential.
- Consistently maintained strong relationships with clients, ensuring clear communication and timely updates on project progress.
- Involved in identifying issues and resolving the same through various evidence-gathering activities with regards to Payroll, Share-based compensation expense, and Pension FSLIs.
- Reviewing the work and coordinating with the audit staff to ensure the completion of audit areas (EGA's) within the stipulated deadlines.
- Processed and reviewed documents and templates based on audit policy and scope of work throughout the planning, execution, and completion stages.
- Involved in pilot projects related to employee benefit plans (Define Benefit plan and Define Contribution plan) and played a key role in making the project a success and bringing more business for the firm.
- Conducted training sessions with team members on various EGA's for Corporate and EBP audits.
- Allocate work and monitor the actual hours charged by the team in order to meet the POD periodic budget hours and goal hours.
- Monitoring in a regular and consistent way, using data and feedback from the team and the client.
- Identify any deviations or issues that may affect the project outcomes, and take corrective actions and communicate them to the team and the client.
- Maintained minimum utilization as BU standards and involved maximum client chargeable hours in the Senior review.
- Met all compliance requirements set out by the organization, as well as Assurance, on a timely basis and always complied without follow-ups.
- Providing high-quality deliverables to onshore team, Engagement team, ensuring the PWC audit methodologies are adhered to in the execution of audit assignments.
Education
Chartered Accountant -
ICAI
04.2001 -
B.com(Hons) -
Utkal University
04.2001 - 01.2013
HSC (XII) Commerce -
Vyasanagar College, Odisha
SSC (X) -
Pachhikote High School
Skills
Team Leadership
Performance monitoring
Team Supervision
Training and mentoring
Project Management
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 07/17/1993
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya
Timeline
Chartered Accountant -
ICAI
04.2001 -
B.com(Hons) -
Utkal University
04.2001 - 01.2013
Senior Associate
PwC IAC Kolkata
8 2020 - Current
HSC (XII) Commerce -
Vyasanagar College, Odisha
SSC (X) -
Pachhikote High School
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