Sonali Vijay
Bengaluru
Summary
Risk advisory and internal audit manager with approximately 9 years of experience in SOX testing, internal controls, and risk management. Manage stakeholder expectations while performing risk analysis and control effectiveness testing. Deliver pragmatic improvements to control frameworks and consistent, high-quality client deliverables.
Overview
3
3
Languages
1
1
Certification
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Risk Advisory & Optimisation
Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Bengaluru
03.2020 - Current
- Supported end-to-end risk advisory, internal audit, and control testing engagements, including SOX, by coordinating risk assessments, walkthroughs, control testing, issue identification, remediation tracking, and client deliverables.
- Prepared process documentation, including narratives, RCMs, flowcharts, control descriptions, and testing workpapers, to support audit and compliance needs.
- Performed risk-based control testing and review work, checked testing conclusions, validated evidence, identified documentation gaps, and followed engagement methodology and quality standards.
- Advised stakeholders on control improvements and process changes, highlighted ways to strengthen internal controls, and reduced process inefficiencies.
- Helped automate tasks within risk advisory work by identifying repetitive manual steps and turning them into scalable technology-enabled solutions.
- Built Power BI dashboards to automate management reporting, risk and control monitoring, data analysis, and visualization for actionable insights.
- Created Power Automate workflows that sent notification emails to relevant stakeholders when issues were logged into tracker.
- Built AI-powered Microsoft Copilot agents to automate repetitive knowledge-based and operational tasks, including contract summaries and key detail capture for sample testing across P2P, O2C, payroll, and related areas, improving productivity and freeing teams for higher-value risk and advisory work.
- Translated business and control needs into technology solutions, worked with process owners and stakeholders to identify automation opportunities, and implemented practical solutions aligned with risk, control, and compliance objectives.
- Delivered risk-focused recommendations to management, balancing control effectiveness with operational practicality to support remediation and process improvement.
- Worked with cross-functional stakeholders and client management to share control observations, discuss remediation paths, resolve testing challenges, and close audit and control issues on time.
Trainee
Sadashiv Prasad & Co
Bengaluru
07.2016 - 01.2020
- Prepared tax documents and organized statutory filings for compliance deadlines
- Managed ledger entries and maintained accurate accounting records for client accounts
- Drafted client correspondence and responded to accounting queries with clear language
- Supported team meetings by compiling notes, reports, and reference documents
- Negotiated contracts with vendors to secure favorable terms.
Education
Chartered Accountant - Auditing
ICAI
Bengaluru11-2019
B.Com - Accounting And Finance
Jain College
Bengaluru05-2019
Skills
- Risk advisory
- Internal audit
- SOX testing
- Control testing
- Power BI
- User Acceptance Testing
- Stakeholder management
- Automation strategy
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Certification
- Co-pilot and Agents
Timeline
Manager, Risk Advisory & Optimisation
Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
03.2020 - Current
Trainee
Sadashiv Prasad & Co
07.2016 - 01.2020
Chartered Accountant - Auditing
ICAI
B.Com - Accounting And Finance
Jain College