FinancePlus - Internal Auditor - CA

Designation: Suitable position in Regional Internal Audit Team (South Asia & Middle East)

Location: India, Delhi

Job Description:

The role covers South Asia and Middle East region (SA & ME). It is India (Delhi) based and will require significant regional travel within India (and South Asia) and Middle East.- This role will offer you significant learning experience of the financial and operational aspects of a diverse multinational business and international travel whilst performing risk based financial audits across all WPP networks in the South Asia and Middle East region.

Role : 

- Executing internal audits for assigned cycles of the audit program by reviewing financial controls and testing compliance with established internal control policies, procedures, regulations and laws as applicable;

- The role will primarily be including controls based and detailed substantive and analytical internal audit work and testing.

- Identifying business and financial risks including opportunities to improve business processes and improving internal controls whilst ensuring the integrity and reliability of the controls;

- Discussing audit findings and issues with local management as they arise and with the Internal Audit Manager before presenting these in the final audit close meeting;

- Timely completion of Internal Audit Workpapers and audit program including documenting identified risks, issues and recommendations in the Internal Audit Software Team Mate;

- Ensuring completion of all issues and working papers in Team Mate by all team members on the audit and then producing the first draft audit report including the Executive Summary for review by the Audit Manager. Ownership of this process is only required where an auditor is designated as the lead for the audit. The lead is rotated for each separate audit: and

- Occasional ad hoc assignments including investigations and assisting with the execution of the SOX initiative which would include, performing controls testing, ensuring that deficiencies are identified, and remediation agreed

Geographical cover:

This role operates in the SA & ME region and is based in Delhi, India and will require extensive travel across the region of up to 70%. Although in practice this has been slightly less in recent years.

Team structure:

There are 2 Senior Internal Audit Managers and 4 auditors in the audit team. The role reports to Head - WPP Internal Audit (SA & ME) with a dotted reporting line to the Internal Audit Manager of the relevant audit assignment.

Candidate Specification:-

Qualification: Chartered Accountant (2012 or earlier) - First attempt qualified

Experience & exposure:

- Prior exposure with one of the large accounting firms is preferable.

- Experience with multinational internal audit procedures is a must as our client has internal, Indian Statutory and also IFRS related requirements

- Experience required in Internal audit - systems, processes, etc. and forensic audit

- Risk focused, and capable of using data analytics to gain insights into transactions

- Reliable when working independently, with sound judgment for when to escalate issues

Skills required:

- Willingness to travel.- A flexible and committed team player, (i) willing to travel locally and internationally when needed;

- A naturally inquisitive, assertive (not aggressive) and tenacious character;

- Thorough and precise;

- Good communication skills - diplomatic and able to converse with a wide range of people;

- Able to prioritize and balance your own workload you have strong time management skills and the ability to work under minimal supervision

- He should be a sharp evaluator of risk and he should enjoy investigating complex issues / situations and proposing solutions

- Drive or work as a team member on reviews and audits of specific business areas;

- Strong report writer (Fluent in English with excellent verbal and written skills)

- Commercial and possibly having experience in a non-audit financial role;

- Able to work well in a team

Audit overview and travel:

- A typically audit assignment is of 2 to 3-week duration with 2 to 3 auditors and a Senior Internal Audit Manager.

- Audits start on a Monday (except to ME unit where it starts on Sunday) and require outbound travel early Monday morning returning back to the India late Friday evening each week during a 2-week audit. For a 3-week audit, return to the India in the second week is usually on a Thursday evening to work from the office on Friday. Exceptionally in respect of long-haul destinations, outbound travel would be either on a Saturday or Sunday with weekend stay over for the duration of the audit.

- All flight travel is booked with reputable airlines in Economy Class for short haul travel and in Premium Economy for flights over 6 hours. The team stays in good standard 4 /5-star hotels based on availability with location caps.

- Reasonable expenses are reimbursed for subsistence and incidentals incurred during business travel as there is no per diem allowance.