| Following the qualification as a Chartered Accountant, he joined the
Calcutta office of erswhile Lovelock & Lewes (now PricewaterhouseCoopers ), a renowned Consultancy and
Chartered Accountant firm in India as a qualified assistant in 1981 and became a manager in 1985. In 1987, he was
seconded to erstwhile Coopers & Lybrand London office as a Supervisor in the Computer Audit group. He designed
and applied computer audit techniques including reviews of IT controls, computer audit software and audit test
data for a wide variety of companies including British Telecom, Gateway Building Society, Banque Paribas , PFW
Limited, Henlys plc., Stafford Motors and Scammell Motors. |
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He
acted as instructor and group leader in various Coopers&Lybrand in-house training courses, including the
Computer Audit Specialists course. He also developed audit packages. Syamal returned to the Calcutta office of
Lovelock & Lewes in 1998 to establish the Computer Audit group in India and to lead computer auditing in the
firm. He became a partner of the firm in 1990. In 1995 he set up the Facility Management and Information Processing
(FMIP) cell and Software Development & Implementation (SDI) cell in the firm. |
