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Pranati Singh

Pranati Singh

Audit Assistant Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Audit and assurance professional with over 7 years of experience, currently serving as an Assistant Manager at EY GDS for the Canada region. Demonstrated expertise in financial analysis, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance, with a proven track record of leading comprehensive audits and enhancing internal controls. Successfully completed a 6-month secondment with EY Canada, gaining direct client interaction and a deeper understanding of business operations. Known for effective communication across technical and non-technical teams, facilitating training sessions, and contributing to process improvements through automation initiatives.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4041
4041
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Audit Assistant Manager

Ernst and Young GDS
10.2022 - Current


  • Audit Leadership: Led comprehensive audits for a major Canadian multinational insurance company, overseeing processes from population requests to detailed testing, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Technical Expertise: Demonstrated strong analytical skills and professional skepticism in areas such as Income Statement analysis, Asset Impairment assessments, and Existence testing.
  • Process Improvement: Contributed to automation projects by identifying areas to streamline audit procedures, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Training & Development: Facilitated training sessions for new hires, interns, and contractors, leveraging leadership skills to engage and educate team members effectively.
  • Resource Management: Assisted leadership in resource planning by aligning staffing schedules with work plans and coverage requirements, ensuring optimal team performance.

Secondment - Audit Assistant Manager

EY Canada
12.2022 - 05.2023
  • Assigned on a secondment contract to EY Canada for 6 months, for one of the major Canadian multinational insurance company wherein had an experience of direct client interactions and broader understanding of their business.
  • Led and executed comprehensive testing of income statements, asset impairments, and cash transactions, ensuring adherence to SEC accounting standards and internal financial review protocols.
  • Directed multiple walkthrough of electronic feed controls, meticulously documenting processes to bolster audit readiness and regulatory compliance.
  • Consistently articulated insights and inquiries with confidence during client interactions, fostering transparent communication and reinforcing trust

Audit Senior

Ernst and Young GDS
10.2020 - 09.2022


  • Audit experience in EMEIA region of the Insurance Sector and Pensions Industry.
  • Managing one of the biggest UK clients in the Life Insurance Industry and several clients in the Pensions Industry.
  • Demonstrated a great client leadership skill through thorough understanding of the client business.
  • Detail-oriented, results-driven professional with experience in Financial Statements Analysis, Test of Controls, Substantive Procedures, Statutory Audit, Solvency II Testing Procedures, Independence Check, Review of Internal Auditors Report, Equity release mortgage transaction testing, etc.

Audit Associate

Ernst and Young GDS
09.2017 - 10.2020
  • Shown great commitment in taking ownership of the audit procedures by maintaining timeliness of the deliverables, being a first-year audit associate.
  • Always kept in mind detailed documentation of any audit procedure which is in line with GAM Guidance to reduce queries and save review time of GDS Senior and Onshore team to meet the expectations.
  • Worked on variety of audit areas, showing skills in consistency check on excel working files, transaction testing and complex client controls.
  • Assisted in Premium and Claims transaction testing, cut off Testing for Premiums, Claims, Reinsurance Premium and Reinsurance Claims.
  • Managed derivative testing procedure on a complex Pension scheme.

Education

Class - X - Secondary -

St. Karen's High School

Class - XII - Higher Secondary - Commerce

Kairali School

B. Com - Finance and Accounts

Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration
06.2014 - 05.2017

Certified Public Accountant -

AICPA - Qualification in Progress

Skills

  • Financial Accounting
  • Audit
  • Business Communication
  • Information Technology
  • Business Regulatory Framework
  • Principles of Marketing
  • E-commerce

Certification

Certified Public Accountant, AICPA, Present

Accomplishments

  • Audit services award, EY GDS, 2023
  • Spot Award for performance of EY Canada Secondment Busy season, 2022
  • Exceptional Client Service award for performance of Busy season, 2021
  • Exceptional Client Service award for performance during Interim season on Phoenix Life engagement, 2021
  • Spot award for managing Phoenix Life Engagement, 2021
  • Exceptional Client Service award for managing Phoenix Life Engagement during busy season, 2021
  • Spot for managing Pensions Engagement during Pensions busy season, 2021

Interests

Badminton
Reading

Yoga

Timeline

Secondment - Audit Assistant Manager

EY Canada
12.2022 - 05.2023

Audit Assistant Manager

Ernst and Young GDS
10.2022 - Current

Audit Senior

Ernst and Young GDS
10.2020 - 09.2022

Audit Associate

Ernst and Young GDS
09.2017 - 10.2020

B. Com - Finance and Accounts

Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration
06.2014 - 05.2017

Class - XII - Higher Secondary - Commerce

Kairali School

Class - X - Secondary -

St. Karen's High School

Certified Public Accountant -

AICPA - Qualification in Progress
Pranati SinghAudit Assistant Manager