IN_Senior Associate__LMCC_ITRA_Advisory_Bangalore

At PwC, we are seeking a Senior Associate to join our IT Risk Advisory team in Bangalore. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing software management strategies, ensuring software compliance, and providing audit readiness. The role requires hands-on experience with software asset management, excellent knowledge of hardware asset management, and strong experience with asset management and discovery tools. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a virtual environment, interpreting licensing terms and conditions, and analyzing data to formulate solutions.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience on software asset management
• Excellent knowledge of the Hardware Asset Management process
• Strong experience with asset management and discovery tools like Snow, Flexera, ServiceNow SAM Pro
• Experience with developing, implementing, and refining SAM processes and procedures
• Good knowledge of the other Service Management processes, particularly Change Management
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Excellent English language skills (verbal and written)
• Experience working in a virtual environment
• Experience interpreting licensing terms and conditions, licensing knowledge and product use rights for defined software titles. Along with contract analysis and negotiation skills.
• Participated or lead in software audits
• Understand standards like ISO/IEC 19770-1; ISO/IEC 5230 etc.
• Ability to deal tactfully with vendors, suppliers, and contractors who provide a broad spectrum of products and services
• Highly competent at interpreting data, analyzing problems, and formulating solutions to present to management level and above
• Knowledge of Active Directory, virtualization technologies, network topologies, software vendor license agreements and licensing terms
• Understands and masters the software licensing for at least three big publishers like Microsoft, Oracle, VMWare, SAP etc.
• Familiar with Microsoft O365 or similar tools
• Knowledge around Free and Open-source software (FOSS) licensing
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Assess, design, and implement key process related to Software compliance
• Software license compliance for major software publishers
• Operations and deployment of SAM and SCA tools
• Contract & Spend management including Optimization
• Co-ordinate with multiple teams, like IT, Infrastructure Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal as required
• Work on automation areas for Discovery and Reporting
• Performing and interpreting gap analysis
• Develop risk remediation strategies
• Ensures license compliance is met, and that any noncompliance issues are addressed quickly and efficiently.
• Monitoring the Software Uses & Highlights what users are permitted to do with any software installed on their machine
• Interaction with software publisher, internal business team for software license compliance & terms

Benefits

• Inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship
• Innovative and dynamic environment
• Opportunity to make a tangible impact in the real world