Branch Audit Role – NBFC

Kairos Consulting India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in India is looking for an Internal Auditor to conduct independent evaluations of business processes and improve governance and compliance measures. The role requires a Chartered Accountant with a minimum of 2 years of audit experience. Key responsibilities include conducting audits, making recommendations on governance processes, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Opportunities for travel across branches are included.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in audit.
• Ability to evaluate and improve governance processes.
• Strong understanding of risk management and control.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent and objective assessments of processes.
• Evaluate and improve effectiveness of controls and risk management.
• Undertake audits, investigations, and reviews as requested.
• Evaluate safeguarding of assets and reliability of information.
• Travel across geography to review branch network and activities.

Skills

Audit experience

Risk management

Compliance assessment

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Job description

The primary role of INA function is to help the Board of Directors and Senior Management to protect its assets, reputation and sustainability. INA function provides independent and objective assurance as to whether design, quality and operational effectiveness of internal controls, risk management and governance related systems and processes as represented by Management, is adequate.

Key Stakeholders

• INTERNAL Branch Network
• EXTERNAL – Regulators – Statutory Auditors

Reporting Structure

Assistant Vice President – Internal Audit

Qualifications

• CA EXPERIENCE: Minimum 2 years of experience into audit

Roles and Responsibilities

• The role of the Internal Auditor is to conduct an independent and objective assessment of the processes and provide an unbiased opinion of the Company’s operations.
• Audit needs to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the control, risk management, and compliance processes. INA’s scope of work as the Third Line of defense includes:
• All PCHFL’s activities in both Wholesale and Retail finance businesses (including outsourced activities) and related legal entities. INA determines areas within its scope through Risk Based Audit Plan (RBIA) by adopting an independent approach.
• Assesses and make appropriate recommendations to improve the governance processes on business decision making, risk management and control; promote appropriate ethics and values within PCHFL; and ensure effective performance management and staff accountability etc.
• Undertake audits, special investigations, or reviews at the request of Audit Committee of Board (ACB), Senior Management or Regulators. Key responsibilities shall include:
• Reviewing the systems established by management to ensure compliance with those policies, plans, procedures, laws and regulations which could have a significant impact on operations of the organization.
• Reviewing the means of safeguarding assets and, as appropriate, verifying the existence of assets.
• Reviewing operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and goals and whether the operations or programs are being carried out as planned.
• Travel across geography and review of branch network.
• Reviewing the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify, measure, classify and report such information.