Manager - Internal Audit - Financial Services

Our client is a renowned Financial Services company seeking to recruit a professional for their Internal Audit team.

Job Title : Manager - Internal Audit

Job Location : Mumbai

Purpose of the Role:

Thrives in a collaborative environment and shares our commitment to providing valuable risk management, governance and control insights to our Organization. The role will interact with branch leaders. Responsibilities include determining Planning and execution of assigned branch internal audits on a monthly basis.

Key Responsibilities:

- Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines

- Audit Branches involving functions, product areas or locations, which may encompass complex financial, compliance and operational processes.

- Plans, schedules all assigned audit projects and manages activities during the audit in a timely and effective manner.

- Effective execution of all phases of audits, assessment of risks, evaluating the design of existing controls, developing and executing test programs, customer meetings to assess adherence with established controls and documenting test results.

- Identify gaps and frauds during audit or any unethical practices in the branches. Evidence for such to be collected and reported to the FRM team.

- Structures and writes major sections of audit reports and other outputs. Participates in discussions and presents audit results to branch/department responsible for the audited area.

- Monitoring of branch published reports where observations identified control issues and assesses the effectiveness of remediation efforts through follow-up. Candidly discusses open control issues with branch and escalates unresolved exposures to senior management as needed.

- Reviews the thoroughness of Audit work papers and storage of the same as appropriate for future reference.

- Responsible for being aware and proactive regarding developments, trends and challenges within assigned business units / functions and within the NBFC industry.

- Takes an active role in delivering valuable services to assigned areas, enhancing operations, identifying gaps and sharing best practices. May perform additional duties as assigned.

- Perform analysis basis data and identify gaps in the relevant functions and processes as appropriate.

Expertise required/ Domain Knowledge:

- Knowledge of internal audit principles, practices and procedures.

- Knowledge about Microfinance/Secured and Unsecured lending processes.

- Strong knowledge of financial industry

- Ability to effectively lead as an individual contributor.

- Ability to achieve results by taking a proactive long-term view of goals and objectives.

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with good knowledge in MS Office.

- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, verbal and written communication skills

- Ready to travel

No. of years of relevant experience:

- Two to Four years of relevant experience in Branch Audit, Credit, Operational Risk, Compliance. (LAP/HL/Unsecured)

Any specific specialization/education: Any Graduate or Post graduate