Internal Audit Manager

Role & responsibilities

• • Plans and performs process audits to identify process weaknesses, inefficiencies and operational issues. Recommends related corrective actions to improve efficiency and drive compliance
• • Conduct risk assessment of assigned department or functional area in established/required timeline & establish risk-based audit programs
• • Supervises minimum 2-3 Internal audit assignments simultaneously
• • Able to manage complex assignments
• • Complete the work with or without delegation
• • Coordinate with Outsourced consultants independently
• • Review the suitability of internal control design & compliance with policies and procedures.
• • Conduct audit testing of specified area and identify reportable issues and dimension of risk
• • Verbally communicate findings to senior management and draft comprehensive and complete report of audit area.

Desired Skills and Competencies

• Functional Expertise: has strong knowledge in the areas of process maturity and efficiency, internal audits and setting up of Internal Controls and delegation of Authority; possesses strong knowledge of statutory and legal compliances

• Process Orientation: creates , implements, standardizes and monitors optimum work processes; documents and shares relevant information and work practices in order to drive best practices implementation
• Results Driven: maintains focus on desired outcome and ensures that the same are achieved irrespective of challenges faced; can operate effectively in environments of ambiguity and transition; demonstrates high levels of accountability and ownership
• Analytical Ability: Simplifies complex situations in a systematic, logical manner by identifying issues, making comparisons, setting priorities, and assessing implications
• Stakeholder Management: works effectively across multiple stakeholders and balances priorities and commitments toward them; is able to leverage relationships to influence key management decisions.
• Planning and Execution : creates effective action plans that will lead to expected outcome; organizes and utilizes resources required; executes actions with precision and deploys contingency plans where necessary to ensure that the end outcome is not compromised.

Expert knowledge of :

• SAP applications

• Internal Audit methodology & auditing techniques

• Internal audit standards

• MS Excel & MS Powerpoint

• COSO framework