Pre Audit Manager

Century Real Estate; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Century Real Estate in Bengaluru seeks a Chartered Accountant to perform pre-audit of payments, employee reimbursements, and purchases. You will verify invoices, contracts, and supporting documents for accuracy while ensuring compliance with DOA, SOPs, and statutory requirements.

You will validate tax calculations, review end-to-end procure-to-pay controls, and identify financial leakages. The role involves preparing MIS and coordinating with cross-functional teams for timely closures.

Qualifications

• CA with audit experience preferred.
• Experience in GST, TDS, and taxation compliance is desirable.
• Ability to maintain detailed audit records and MIS reports.

Responsibilities

• Conduct pre-audit of payments and reimbursements before processing.
• Verify invoices, POs, contracts, and supporting documents for accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with DOA, SOPs, and statutory requirements.
• Validate tax calculations and deductions in transactions.
• Review procurement-to-payment processes for controls and accuracy.
• Identify duplicate payments and improper claims; escalate issues.
• Highlight policy deviations and high-risk transactions to stakeholders.
• Maintain detailed audit observations and closure status.
• Coordinate with Finance, AP, Procurement, and business teams for queries.
• Track and close audit observations within deadlines.

Skills

Audit

GST

TDS

Internal Controls

Fraud Detection

Education

Chartered Accountant

Tools

MS Excel

IFRS/Ind AS

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Conduct pre-audit of vendor payments, employee reimbursements, advances, purchase-related transactions, and other financial disbursements before payment processing.
• Verify invoices, purchase orders, work orders, contracts, supporting documents, and approvals for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure transactions comply with the company's policies, SOPs, Delegation of Authority (DOA) approval matrix, and applicable statutory requirements.
• Validate accuracy of calculations, applicable taxes, deductions, rates, quantities, payment terms, and supporting documentation.
• Review procurement-to-payment processes and ensure appropriate controls have been followed.
• Identify duplicate payments, incorrect claims, unsupported expenses, deviations from contractual terms, and potential financial leakages.
• Verify compliance with applicable GST, TDS, and other taxation requirements, wherever relevant.
• Highlight control gaps, policy deviations, exceptions, and high-risk transactions to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain detailed records of audit observations, exceptions, and closure status.
• Coordinate with Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Business Teams, and other functions for clarification and resolution of audit queries.
• Track pending audit observations and ensure timely closure of identified exceptions.
• Recommend process improvements and stronger internal controls based on recurring audit findings.
• Support internal, statutory, and external audit requirements by providing relevant documentation and transaction details.
• Prepare periodic MIS and management reports covering audit observations, transaction volumes, rejection rates, recurring exceptions, and key risk areas.
• Assist in fraud-risk identification and **escalate** suspicious or unusual transactions in accordance with company procedures.
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of financial and business information.

Preferred candidate profile

Chartered Accountant