Consultant - Internal Audit

Your key responsibilities

- Responsible for executing client related engagements in the areas of governance, risk & compliance (GRC), internal audits, process reviews, standard operating procedures, enterprise risk management, revenue assurance, SOX 404 & Clause 49 assistance.

- Determine that the work delivered is of high quality.

- Anticipate and identify engagement related risks and escalate issues as appropriate.

- Actively establish & strengthen client (functional heads & key influencers) and internal relationships.

- Assist seniors & managers in developing new methodologies and internal initiatives.

- Create a positive learning culture, coaches, counsels and develops junior team members.

- Identify & escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client engagements

Service delivery related

- Review of working papers & client folders. Suggest ideas on improving engagement productivity and identify opportunities for improving client service

- Identify areas requiring improvement in the client's business processes to enable preparation of recommendations.

- Identify & internally escalate and potential red flags related to the engagement

- Preparation of reports/deliverables/status updates/audit committee presentations.

- Handling data analytics - Access, ACL etc.

- Ensure compliance with engagement plans and internal quality & risk management procedures.

- Demonstrate an application & solution-based approach to problem solving technique.

- Manage the engagement budgets and support superiors in developing marketing collaterals, business proposals and new solution / methodology development

- Develop strong working relationships with client (process owner/functional heads).

- Contribute to knowledge management sessions within the practice.

- Identify and escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client engagements.

People related

- Manage small teams - motivate, counsel & develop junior colleagues.

- Pro-actively identify and escalate counselees not being chargeable on engagements.

- Demonstrate ability to conceptualize & translate lessons learned on client engagements into relevant training sessions for junior colleagues and contribute to learning & development initiatives.

- Provide real-time constructive verbal feedback to team members and facilitate timely completion of engagement review forms.

- Contribute to effective team work in internal engagement situation.

- Support knowledge sharing efforts and continually improves processes so that the work team can capture and leverage knowledge.

Skills and attributes for success

- Demonstrate ability of multi-task and manage multiple projects as directed by the managers.

- Awareness of internal auditing standards issued by IIA and ICAI.

- Demonstrate the ability to effectively discharge supervisory responsibilities

To qualify for the role you must have

- Chartered Accountant/Certified Internal Auditor/Masters in Business

- 4 to 5 years of post-qualification experience in risk advisory/related internal audit experience/external audit experience in big 4.

Ideally, you'll also have

- Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills.

- Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.

- Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)

- Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility.