Head - Internal Audit - Telecom

Support the audit function to give the Board/Audit Committee and Management risk based independent assurance of the effectiveness of India's internal controls. Lead risk based audit activities, coaching and supporting a virtual team to deliver and to identify potential control weaknesses and make recommendations to mitigate related risks.

Impact on the business :

Accountable for the identification and reporting on all significant control weaknesses

- Lead a team to undertake specific audit activities and assures compliance with audit methodology, quality and homogeneity of the IA outputs including quality and formatting of audit reports issued:

- Review the draft report, provide feedback on the quality of the report and additional areas to be analysed.

- Provide grading of the audited process

- Provide insights and recommendations on improvements to the key stakeholders in the business

- Allow flexibility in plan and resources to facilitate ad-hoc projects. Ensure that team acts with sufficient confidentiality for fraud reviews

- Provide support to management teams to help define effective controls that satisfy Co policies and procedures.

- Gain positive management commitment to the outcomes and recommendations resulting from the audit process.

Enable the Group to satisfy the Corporate Governance requirements of the various regulatory authorities on whose exchanges the Group's shares are listed

- Ensures timely delivery of group programmes to support in complying with corporate governance requirements:

- Key Control Questionnaire programme

- ELCA testing and COSO Assessment

- Assist external auditors in the performance of the interim and year end audits.

Audit Committee:

- Prepares or supports the preparation of the audit committee papers

- Provides the Audit Committee assurance over the effectiveness of the local IA function and the adherence to Co IA Functional Standards

- Ensures compliance with Local Audit Committee Terms of Reference

- Participates in Audit Committee Meeting either in person or via conf or video call.

- Participating in the risk assessment process

Undertake our activity to ensure that high risk areas are subject to greater focus than low risk areas

Audit plan preparation:

- Coordinates and reviews the inputs to the audit plan

- Prepares the draft audit plan for the local Opco and presents it to the SVP: Group Internal Audit

- Reports the Audit plan to the Audit Committee

Issue tracking:

- Monitors the action tracking and interacts with senior management to ensure commitment to (timely) high priority completion.

Audit plan resources:

- Manages the surplus / gap of resources within the team

- Negotiates the resources swap with the SVP : Group Internal Audit

- Facilitates the application of recharges within the Opco in case of resources swap.

- Monitors the progress of the audit plan delivery and provides early warning if necessary

Customers, supplier and third parties:

- Identify and make recommendations that are sensitive to the business that can impact customer experience

- Internal customers include - local management (auditees) and group management and audit teams (within and outside of entity)