Head | Internal Audit

Job Title : Head – Internal Audit

Location : Jaipur

Type : Full Time

Reporting To : Director

About the Role: The Internal Audit Head’s primary responsibility will be to Plan, manage, and perform specialized investigative audits, including determining audit objectives and scope, identifying and assessing risks, developing time budgets and audit programs, and ensuring compliance with Internal Audit work paper standards for each audit.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
• Develop an Internal Audit Plan ensuring that the governance, risk management and control concerns of the management are considered in the planning, and plan updates, and that Internal Audit provides a suitable, prompt assurance in respect of the areas of concern identified. Implementing the Audit Plan effectively and timely reporting the management after completing the action for closure of the observations.
• Control and review the full audit cycle including risk management and control management over operations' effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations.
• Leverage the audit outputs to advise on ideas and solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations within the department and ensure compliance to all regulatory and internal guidelines.
• Emphasize on and leverage both existing & new technologies for reduction in errors and enhancement of operations.
• Ensure that Internal Audit promptly identifies and escalates control issues raised by regulators with respect to the activities of the Company.
• Additionally, ensure that Internal Audit works constructively with management and Compliance to identify corrective action plans to remediate the governance, risk management or internal control issue, and that Internal Audit validates the issue promptly.
• Responsibility and accountability of audit's coverage and reporting on common high risks areas such KYC, AML, Fraud, Technology, Sanctions, and Consent Orders and other enforcement action compliance.

Required Qualifications:
• Educational Background: Graduate from a recognized University/ Institution coupled with accounting qualification of Chartered Accountant. Candidate familiar with best practices and latest developments in the industry with additional qualification like CFA / CWA shall be preferred.
• Experience: At least 15 years of working experience where 5 years should be on a senior role with internal audit in NBFC.

Required Key Skills:
• Strong professional background in areas like internal control, risk management, treasury, and governance process with a blend of financial, operational and IT systems audit.
• Strong Stakeholder relationship management and negotiation skills
• Ability to establish risk-based plans to determine internal audit activity priorities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving.