Internal Audit Lead

Avaada Energy; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaada Energy is seeking an Internal Auditor to strengthen governance across its Indian operations. The role covers risk-based audits across multiple verticals, with emphasis on financial controls, compliance, and process improvement.

You will lead audits in EPC, project management, O&M for solar plants, and supplier relations, while collaborating with process owners and senior leaders to drive actionable recommendations and enhance governance maturity.

Qualifications

• CA/CMA/MBA in Any Specialization required.
• Experience managing 5–10 audit team members in high-risk areas.
• Expert knowledge of SAP, data analytics, and audit standards (IIA/GAAP).

Responsibilities

• Support the Group Internal Audit Head in developing and executing a comprehensive annual risk-based audit plan across India.
• Lead audits across EPC, Project Management, O&M for solar plants, financial controls, procurement, safety & quality, cyber security, supply chain, and compliance.
• Partner with process owners to strengthen controls and drive process improvements.
• Design risk analytics, dashboards, and digital audit techniques to enhance audit effectiveness.
• Lead investigations with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Coordinate audits of subsidiaries as needed to ensure quality and consistency.
• Oversee financial assurance engagements including IFC testing and year-end audits.
• Budget for co-sourcing, audit tools, and training; manage workload and sourcing models.

Skills

SAP

Data analytics

Audit tools

Audit standards

Tax laws

Education

CA/CMA/MBA

Tools

MS PowerPoint

Data analytics software

Internal audit software

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Financial Outcomes:

• Support the Group Internal Audit Head in developing and executing a comprehensive annual risk-based audit plan covering all India business verticals across operational, financial, digital, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, commercial and compliance domains.
• Lead and oversee audits across multiple functional areas such as EPC, Project Management, Operation and Maintenance of the solar Plants, Financial Controls, Procurement, Safety &Quality Management, Cyber/Data Security, Supply Chain, Marketing/Media, Post implementation reviews, compliance reviews and other enterprise processes, ensuring robust risk coverage and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Partner with process owners across functions to strengthen internal controls, drive process efficiency, and enhance maturity of governance practices.
• Design and implement risk analytics, dashboards, and digital audit techniques to elevate the effectiveness and predictive capability of audits across domains.
• Lead investigations initiated by senior management, ensuring root-cause analysis, fact-based findings, and corrective actions that reinforce organizational integrity and control resilience.
• Support audits of subsidiaries/ SVPs where required, ensuring methodological consistency and quality of assurance across geographies.
• Direct and support financial assurance engagements including IFC testing, year-end audits, treasury audits, and entity-level controls across relevant business units.
• Take up special and collaborative assignments based on outcomes of audit, investigations, business need/request to help organization in strengthening controls, improve processes.
• Annual budgeting for co-sourcing, audit tool subscriptions, and training.
• Workload balancing, resource planning, and optimizing sourcing models

Customer Service:

• Proactively engage with stake holders to address challenges and conflicts during the audits, align findings & recommendation, while maintaining audit expectations through persuasive skills.
• Assist in creating and developing the leadership reports, audit committee deck, audit key take aways etc.
• Review outstanding action plan with business, validate comments for closed items, conduct escalated follow up for overdue actions to ensure timely implementation of audit recommendations and agreed action plans.

Internal Process:

• Oversee the full audit lifecycle from scoping, planning, fieldwork, testing, analytics, and documentation to reporting ensuring comprehensive coverage and high-quality workpapers.
• Benchmark internal processes with industry standards and peer Solar companies to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and best practices across operational and financial domains.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on audit progress, emerging risks, dependencies, and challenges.
• Ensure timely completion, review, and publication of audit reports aligned to Internal Audit methodology and Audit Committee timelines.
• Review work performed by in-house audit teams and co-sourced partners to ensure adequacy of scope, accuracy of findings, quality of analytics, and consistency with IA standards.

Innovation and Learning:

• Support and implement continuous enhancement to audit process, in accordance with suggestion by Audit Committee, Senior Leadership and Global Internal Auditor.
• Anchor development of need basis data analytics for audit automation
• People management – Training and development of inhouse and co- source.
• Collaborate and support other audit leads by providing insights on best practices and helping to improve overall quality of audit.
• Foster the culture of providing training to inhouse teams and Co-Sourcing partners in enhancing their knowledge on the domains covered risk factors etc.

Role: Internal auditor

Industry Type: Solar EPC and generations.

Department: Internal Audit

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Audit & Control

Education

PG: CA/CMA/MBA in Any Specialization

Key Skills

Skills preferred Expert Knowledge of SAP, MS Power points, Data analytics tool, Internal audit software management.

Expert Knowledge of Audit and Accounting Standard (IIAs and IN GAAPs), Indian Company Acts, Tax laws.

Experience of handling 5-10 members of Audit team and self-contributors in high risk areas.