Compliance Senior Associate

About the role

Compliance Senior Associate at PwC will support the Ethics and Business Conduct practice within Risk and Compliance services. The role involves developing and implementing compliance testing frameworks, leading testing projects, and supervising teams. Responsibilities include evaluating policies and SOPs, reviewing testing documentation, tracking recommendation implementation, and preparing management presentations. The associate will build stakeholder relationships, drive initiatives such as analytics and tool implementation, and contribute to quality reporting for senior leadership. The position requires a CA, MBA, CIA, or CS from a reputed institute, with 5+ years of experience in Controls & Compliance or Internal Audit. Key skills include compliance testing, internal audit, SOX compliance, and strong analytical, communication, and leadership abilities. The role is based in Gurugram, India, and is a full‑time, on‑site position.

What you’ll do

• Implement compliance testing framework, methodology and checklists for compliance testing.
• Contribute to improvement of the framework, including aspects being reviewed and newer areas to be included in the future.
• Lead and perform compliance testing and other projects assigned to the Compliance team.
• Supervise teams/managers and provide guidance.
• Evaluate and examine applicable guidelines, policies, SOPs for areas being reviewed to refine testing attributes, identify unmitigated risks and suggest improvements.
• Review testing sheets and backup documents to ensure they are in accordance with re-performance standards and are updated in the central database.
• Track and follow up on progress of implementation of recommendations with key stakeholders.
• Finalize exceptions and discuss them with concerned teams to agree on facts and way forward.
• Provide suggestions regarding improvements in guidelines/risk processes to mitigate exceptions and improve existing processes and align with stakeholders.
• Independently prepare management presentation/deck summarizing work done in each testing cycle for discussion with leadership.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders and work independently in representing Compliance lead in various forums/discussions.
• Identify and actively contribute to leading key initiatives for the function, such as leveraging analytics, reviewing new areas, implementing tools for the function.
• Support the Compliance lead in quality reporting to the Senior leadership team in addition to other functional roles such as project management, recruitment, trainings, etc.
• Develop a learning culture by coaching, counselling, and training team members by providing objective support and supervision, sharing ideas/information/knowledge through strong leadership skills.
• Contribute significantly towards building strong and effective awareness and consciousness towards compliance requirements within the organization.

What you’ll bring

CA / MBA / CIA / CS from a reputed institute, with prior experience in Controls & Compliance or Internal Audit (4-6 years)

Skills

Education

CA / MBA / CIA / CS