IN_Senior Associate_LMCC_GCC_Advisory_Chennai

PwC; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Chennai is seeking a Senior Associate to lead software asset management and license compliance activities within the Advisory line of service, Risk specialism. The role focuses on IA/asset governance, procurement linkage, and coordinated cross-functional efforts to manage software lifecycles.

You will work with Snow, Flexera, and ServiceNow SAM Pro in a virtual and on-site setting, ensuring compliance and efficiency across departments while supporting governance and risk management

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with software asset management and related processes.
• Experience in hardware asset management and asset discovery.
• Experience interpreting licensing terms and conducting software audits.
• Knowledge of ISO/IEC 19770-1; ISO/IEC 5230 licensing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term software management strategy and goals.
• Track software assets through life cycle and ensure quality control.
• Monitor licenses to ensure compliance and usage standards.
• Coordinate with budgeting and procurement for software acquisition and retirement.
• Collaborate with IT, Finance and Legal to optimize costs and processes.
• Ensure audit readiness and license compliance.
• Drive ongoing education on company policies and tools.

Skills

Software Asset Management

Asset Management

Auditing

Data Analysis

Education

B.Tech / M.Tech / BCA / MCA/ B.Sc / M.Sc

Tools

Snow

Flexera

ServiceNow SAM Pro

Job description

Job Description:

Line of Service: Advisory

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Specialism: Risk

Management Level: Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

Those in internal audit at PwC help build, optimise and deliver end-to-end internal audit services to clients in all industries. This includes IA function setup and transformation, co-sourcing, outsourcing and managed services, using AI and other risk technology and delivery models. IA capabilities are combined with other industry and technical expertise, in areas like cyber, forensics and compliance, to address the full spectrum of risks. This helps organisations to harness the power of IA to help the organisation protect value and navigate disruption, and obtain confidence to take risks to power growth.

Why PWC

At PwC, you will be part of a vibrant community of solvers that leads with trust and creates distinctive outcomes forour clients and communities. This purpose-led and values-driven work, powered by technology in an environment that drives innovation, will enable you to make a tangible impact in the real world. We reward your contributions, support your wellbeing, and offer inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship that will help you thrive in work and life. Together, we grow, learn, care, collaborate, and create a future of infinite experiences foreach other. Learn more about us.

At PwC, we believe in providing equal employment opportunities, without any discrimination on the grounds of gender, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, religion or other beliefs, perceived differences and status protected by law. We strive to create an environment where each one of our people can bring their true selves and contribute to their personal growth and the firm’s growth. To enable this, we have zero tolerance for any discrimination and harassment based on the above considerations.

Job Description & Summary

• Developing long term software management strategy and goals.
• Developing and implementing procedures for tracking company software assets to oversee quality control, and usage throughout their life cycles
• Monitor software licenses to ensure they comply with license agreements and usage standards
• Establishing and maintaining linkage with budgeting and procurement processes to track software acquisition, utilization, and retirement.
• Collaborate with departments management to define cost savings, software compliances and service improvement opportunities
• Ensure audit compliance readiness
• Drive continuous education awareness of company policies.

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

Mandatory skill sets

• 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

Preferred skill sets

HAM

Years of experience required

4

Education qualification

B.Tech / M.Tech / BCA / MCA/ B.Sc / M.Sc

Education

(if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Certifications

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Required Skills

Software Asset Management (SAM)

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Business Process Improvement, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Corporate Governance, Creativity, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Digital Tooling, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation + 27 more

Desired Languages

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Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

No

Government Clearance Required

No

Job Posting End Date

November 10, 2026