Process Lead

McKinsey; Gurugram District, Chennai, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinsey is seeking an experienced Audit professional to lead and execute expense audits across firm transactions. You will scrutinize receipts, validate business justifications, and investigate suspicious patterns while ensuring policy adherence and timely deliverables.

You will mentor peers, contribute to tool enhancements, and present findings to senior leadership and HR/legal teams. Strong analytical skills and CFE preferred are advantageous.

Qualifications

• Graduate in Accounting/Auditing/Finance or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a shared service environment or audit firm.
• CFE preferred or equivalent certification is advantageous.
• Experience analyzing new audit scenarios and documenting procedures.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to forecast challenges.
• Experience establishing new controls to streamline processes.
• Contribution towards process improvement and automation; basic data analytics knowledge is a plus.
• Guide peers and mentor them in daily audits, tracking progress.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of expense auditors and investigators on finance-related issues.
• Perform and lead audits on firm billed transactions for individuals in the risk scoring model.
• Scrutinize supporting docs like receipts and mails; analyze reports from expense tools and vendors.
• Research on the internet to validate business reasons for expenses.
• Seek clarifications from colleagues and assess adherence to office policies.
• Identify trends of questionable expenses; validate new enhancements in expense tools.
• Report findings to Senior Leadership and relevant stakeholders; suggest mitigation actions.

Skills

Accounting

Auditing

Finance

Fraud Investigation

Data analytics

Problem-solving

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance

Job description

Role & responsibilities

You will work with a team of expense auditors and investigators on finance-related issues and perform/lead audits on firm billed transactions of individuals whose name figures in the risk scoring model.

You will scrutinize supporting documentation like receipts and mails, analyze reports from expense reporting tools and vendors, and perform research on the internet to validate the business reason of certain expenses.

You will seek clarifications from colleagues on expenses and be responsible for assessing the adherence to different office policies. You will Identify trends/patterns of questionable expenses, validate new enhancements in expense reporting tools, liaise with partner teams on new rollouts of vendor services in different cities, and stabilize the process.

You will ensure audit deliverables for the team are completed on the agreed timelines, highlight any process issues and also come with the proposed solution on mitigating the same, and work collaboratively with partnering teams on any data quality issues, validating fixes and following up diligently to ensure issues are resolved.

Upon completion of audits, you will compile all the findings, write audit reports to Senior Leadership, office Finance and may also provide supporting evidence of the findings if needed to Human Resources, Legal, and Professional Standards Committee outlining the issue. Finally, you will suggest additional algorithms whenever required in the risk scoring model to enhance the audit efficiency.

Preferred candidate profile

Graduate in Accounting/Auditing/Finance, or related discipline

5+ years of experience in a shared service environment or audit firm

Experience with Fraud & Investigation will be an added advantage (CFE preferred)

Experience analyzing new audit scenarios and document procedures

Exceptional problem-solving, analytical skills with ability to forecast challenges

Experience establishing new controls in a process and streamline any manual efforts

Experience contributing towards process improvement and automation (basic knowledge of data analytics will be an added advantage

Guide peer members and mentor them in their daily audits by tracking progress at work.

Demonstrable understanding of audit theories, principles, and practices