Lead - Internal Audit
Location: Chennai • Level: Mid Level • Openings: 1 • Type: Full-time
Job description
Job Details
Job Title: Executive
Job Location: Chennai
Work Model: Work from Office
Candidate Expectations
Total
Experience and Relevant Experience: 3 to 8 years
Candidate
Location: Anywhere in India
Skills- Client audit, Internal Audit, Audit engagement,
Financial Audit.
Education and Certification
Qualification: Chartered Accountant (CA),
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), MBA, or
comparable graduate degree in business or finance.
Detailed Job Description
Key Skills
Lead
audit engagements across the planned scope and risk areas, including
understanding engagement objectives, business processes, functions, and
systems, and developing audit procedures and planning documentation for review.
Coordinate
client-initiated and pre-emptive audit activities with Client account and
functional teams, including audit calls, responses, testing, deliverables,
reporting, and Resolution Action Plan updates.
Assess
identified gaps and improvement opportunities, evaluate their significance,
recommend appropriately aligned remediation actions, and support discussions on
detailed audit findings before final report issuance.
Produce
complete, accurate, organized, and clear audit work products independently
while ensuring audit documentation and work steps are promptly recorded in the
Client Audit tool.
Manage
project status, milestones, special projects, and ad-hoc requests while
leveraging approved AI tools and developing fit-for-purpose agents to improve
audit efficiency, accuracy, and insight generation.
Experience
coordinating client-initiated or internal audit engagements from planning
through testing and reporting.
Experience
assessing control gaps, developing remediation recommendations, and tracking
Resolution Action Plans.
Commitment
to ongoing professional development through relevant training, seminars,
feedback, and certifications.
Working
knowledge of approved AI tools and the ability to identify practical
opportunities to use AI and fit-for-purpose agents in audit activities.
Mandatory
Key Skills:
Collaborate
with Client account teams, functional teams, management, and senior leadership.
Support and lead client-initiated and pre-emptive audit engagements, helping
provide risk-based and objective assurance, advice and insight aligned with
organizational strategies, objectives, and risks. Work in a global environment,
exposure to multiple audit types, develop new skills and contribute to
continuous improvements in audit delivery.
Good to Have Skills:
Ability
to work independently within a large, multinational, geographically dispersed
environment.
Ability
to effectively engage and build working relationships with various levels of
management and senior leadership.
Strong
written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage large
quantities of information and data, think critically, multitask, and solve
problems effectively.
Demonstrated
professional standards, integrity, and ethical behavior.
A
strong sense of ownership, a desire to create meaningful outcomes, and passion
for work that serves customers, communities, or global challenges.
Job ID: 2076