Audit professional prepared for impactful roles in financial sector. Extensive experience in leading audits, identifying discrepancies, and recommending improvements. Collaborative team player with results-oriented mindset, ensuring quality outcomes and adaptability to changing requirements. Skilled in risk management and internal controls, valued for reliability and precision.
Hi, I’m
Monika Singh
Chartered Accountant
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Overview
12
years of professional experience
2
Languages
Work History
KPMG US GDC
Audit Senior I (3rd year Auditor)
04.2025 - 07.2026
Job overview
- Banking Loans and Deposits: Performed manual control testing and substantive testing of loan and deposit controls, including design, implementation, and operating effectiveness. Conducted loan confirmations to validate existence and accuracy of balances, delivering reliable audit evidence for banking clients.
- Alternative Investment Funds: Perform detailed NAV substantive testing. Mentored team member, enhancing team capabilities and fostering professional development. Optimized resource allocation during audit projects, maximizing team productivity and effectiveness. Improved audit efficiency with implementation of advanced software tools.
KPMG US GDC
Audit Senior I (2nd year Auditor)
03.2025
Job overview
- Investment Funds Audit of Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Private Credit, Private Equity and Fund of Funds:
- Performed reviews of Audit workpapers (planning through reporting). Areas include Risk Assessments, Revenue Testing, Journal Entry Testing, Cash Testing, Receivable/Payables Testing, Planning Analytics, Planning Materiality, Final Materiality, Final Analytics, Existence & Value Testing, External Confirmations (Custodian, Legal & Cash) – drafting, sending and receiving responses.
- Performed risk assessment of Journal Entry testing/Completeness roll with Current Year Opening Balances from Prior year ending balances and during the debit/credit transactions with Fund Administrator Year End NAV.
- Performed reviews of Investment, Capital, Valuations and Cash walkthroughs and related documentations.
- Participated in Risk assessment planning, scoping, and testing strategy discussions with onshore teams.
- Participated in discussions involved in identifying the controls related to risk-mapped account balances.
- Performed/Reviewed tie outs on Group Consolidated/Standalone Financial Statements and prepared/reviewed workings for notes disclosures.
- Maintaining team member schedules, budgets, status trackers, identifying areas for integration to bring in efficiency and better coordination with the onsite teams.
- Communication of open items, audit status, deficiencies in controls and substantive audit results directly with the onshore engagement team, clients and fund administrators through recurring alternate basis team calls or over emails.
- Oct’ 2023 to Mar’25
KPMG US GDC
Audit Associate (1st year Auditor)
09.2023
Job overview
- Associated with Asset Management industry to perform substantive investing testing procedures including ,Investment fair/cost value testing, Quantity roll forward testing, Existence & Valuation, Tax Lot Testing (detailed transaction level basis), Realized Gain/Loss Testing, Unrealized and Change in Unrealized Gain/Loss Testing , ASC 820 Levelling Disclosure, Schedule of Investments Disclosure, Investment Receivables/Payables, ASC 815 Derivative Disclosure, Foreign Currency Translation (As per US GAAP) of open-end entities, closed-end entities & exchange traded funds.
- Handled and delivered good number of audit engagement portfolios with respect to Mutual and Hedge Funds having investments into Equities, Fixed Income and Options (both Long and Short Exposures).
- Majorly worked and involved in handling Asset Management Investment Testing Routine tool for Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds and Collective Investment Trusts (CITs) to cater all the US/GDC engagement teams having audit of Investment Companies.
- Utilized audit technology and innovation tools (Alteryx, Abby Flexi Capture Broker Conversion and AMIR etc.) to ensure to deliver timely and high-quality work in line with the engagement team expectations.
- Executed into the day-to-day audit engagements activities as a team member and interacted with both onshore and offshore teams to deliver end-to-end automated investment testing audit work-papers per the audit team requirements.
- Gained knowledge in analyzing and evaluating the relevant client reports used in the audit for the following fund administrators, State Street & Bank, Trust (SSBT), Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM), Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), Hedge SERV, Morgan Stanley Financial Services, Northern Trust, Simulated Environment Investments (SEI)
- Jul’ 22 to Sept 2023
Save Solutions Private LimitedMotinagar, Delhi
Senior F&A Executive
01.2022 - 07.2022
Job overview
- Reviewed the Day Books for all transactions along with supporting documents.
- Prepared detailed workpapers for major expenditure of organizations such as inter-corporate loans & advances, interest expense, loan repayment schedules, other intercompany transactions schedules to support items presented and disclosed in Financial Statements.
- Reviewed Imprest Cash transactions of the organizations relating to the routine expenses.
- Reviewed and passed adjustment in monthly GST reconciliations among various GSTR1, 2A & 3B.
- Assisted in drafting responses to GST & IT authorities against any notices like GST, TDS.
- Dec’ 21 to Jul’ 22
N K Bansal & Co. Chartered AccountantsUdyog Vihar, Gurgaon
Audit Executive
08.2019 - 09.2020
Job overview
- Conducted Statutory and Internal audits of NGOs, Private Companies and gained expertise in finalization of financial statements and drafting of audit reports ensuring compliance with the applicable accounting standards and standard of auditing.
- Handled Tax Audit assignments.
- Preparation of various GST Reconciliation statements and Filed GSTRs and Books of Accounts on a monthly and Annual basis.
- Drafted Professional Emails and maintained follow-up to ensure timely and effective completion of various assignments.
- Preparation of various certificates and filing them with statutory authorities and Banks & FIs, like Valuation and Net worth certificates.
- Income Tax Return Filing of Individuals (R/NR)/HUF.
- Key Clients handled – The Oberoi’s, New Delhi; Dalmia Bharat Group Companies; Brooke Hospital for Animals India (UK Based Charity); Win Greens Farms Private Limited, Gurugram (FMCG – Food Products Manufacturers)
- Jul’ 2019 to Sept’2020)
A.K. Gangahar & Co. (Chartered Accountants)Model Town III, Delhi
Articleship
04.2014 - 04.2017
Job overview
- Articled with A.K. Gangahar & Co. (Chartered Accountants), Delhi based firm.
- Majorly Assisted in Statutory Audits with substantive testing parts & Tax Audit assignments of Public Companies and Non-Banking Financial Institutions as a team member.
- Preparation and filing of TDS quarterly returns.
- Well versed with working on Tally ERP.9, MS-Office (Word & Spreadsheet).
- Actively participated as audit engagement team member in discussions related to any audit findings with auditee and assisted in identifying significant audit areas and to implement relevant audit procedure to obtain sufficient evidence and otherwise perform alternate procedure to provide reasonable assurance.
- Preparation of income tax computations and filing of Income Tax Returns for Individuals & HUF (R/NR).
- Delhi based firm.
Education
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of IndiaDelhi, India
C.A. Final
12-2021
University Overview
Chartered Accountant ( CA) | 2021
Delhi UniversityNew Delhi, India
B. COM (H)
04-2012
University Overview
- Graduated in 2012
Central Board of Secondary EducationDelhi, India
Senior Secondary Education
03-2009
University Overview
- Completed Class XII/ Senior Secondary Education | 2012
Skills
Big Four audit methodology
Tie outs
External confirmations
Risk assessment
Substantive testing
Alteryx
Confirmationcom
Asset Management Audit Platform
Bloomberg
MS office suite
Walkthrough documentation
Internal control design and implementation
Availability
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Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 10 staff members.
- Achieved client issuances on time by introducing Gen AI, Copilot, and Asset Management Audit platform tool investment testing tasks.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop NAV confiramtions and investee PCAP/ AFS tracking spreadsheets.
Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Interests
Travelling & Exploring New Cultures
Fitness & Health
Reading & Learning
Timeline
Audit Senior I (3rd year Auditor)
KPMG US GDC
04.2025 - 07.2026
Senior F&A Executive
Save Solutions Private Limited
01.2022 - 07.2022
Audit Executive
N K Bansal & Co. Chartered Accountants
08.2019 - 09.2020
Articleship
A.K. Gangahar & Co. (Chartered Accountants)
04.2014 - 04.2017
Audit Senior I (2nd year Auditor)
KPMG US GDC
03.2025
Audit Associate (1st year Auditor)
KPMG US GDC
09.2023
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
C.A. Final
Delhi University
B. COM (H)
Central Board of Secondary Education
Senior Secondary Education