What are the Key Deliverables in this role ?

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Outcomes:

• Support the Global Internal Audit Head in developing and executing a comprehensive annual risk‑based audit plan covering all India business verticals across operational, financial, digital, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, commercial and compliance domains.
• Lead and oversee audits across multiple functional areas such as Manufacturing, Financial Controls, Procurement, Food Safety & Quality Management, Cyber/Data Security, Supply Chain, Marketing/Media, Post implementation reviews, compliance reviews and other enterprise processes, ensuring robust risk coverage and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Partner with process owners across functions to strengthen internal controls, drive process efficiency, and enhance maturity of governance practices.
• Design and implement risk analytics, dashboards, and digital audit techniques to elevate the effectiveness and predictive capability of audits across domains.
• Lead investigations initiated by senior management, ensuring root‑cause analysis, fact‑based findings, and corrective actions that reinforce organizational integrity and control resilience.
• Support audits of subsidiaries and international entities where required, ensuring methodological consistency and quality of assurance across geographies.
• Direct and support financial assurance engagements including IFC testing, year‑end audits, treasury audits, and entity‑level controls across relevant business units.
• Take up special and collaborative assignments based on outcomes of audit, investigations, business need/request to help organization in strengthening controls, improve processes.
• Annual budgeting for co‑sourcing, audit tool subscriptions, and training.
• Workload balancing, resource planning, and optimizing sourcing models

Customer Service:

• Proactively engage with stake holders to address challenges and conflicts during the audits, align findings & recommendation, while maintaining audit expectations through persuasive skills.
• Assist in creating and developing the leadership reports, audit committee deck, audit key take aways etc.
• Review outstanding action plan with business, validate comments for closed items, conduct escalated follow up for overdue actions to ensure timely implementation of audit recommendations and agreed action plans.

Internal Process:

• Oversee the full audit lifecycle — from scoping, planning, fieldwork, testing, analytics, and documentation to reporting — ensuring comprehensive coverage and high‑quality workpapers.
• Benchmark internal processes with industry standards and peer FMCG companies to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and best practices across operational and financial domains.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on audit progress, emerging risks, dependencies, and challenges.
• Ensure timely completion, review, and publication of audit reports aligned to Internal Audit methodology and Audit Committee timelines.
• Review work performed by in‑house audit teams and co‑sourced partners to ensure adequacy of scope, accuracy of findings, quality of analytics, and consistency with IA standards.

Innovation and Learning:

• Support and implement continuous enhancement to audit process, in accordance with suggestion by Audit Committee, Senior Leadership and Global Internal Auditor.
• Anchor development of need basis data analytics for audit automation
• People management – Training and development of inhouse and co- source
• Collaborate and support other audit leads by providing insights on best practices and helping improving overall quality of audit.
• Foster the culture of providing training to inhouse teams and Co-Sourcing partners in enhancing their knowledge on the domains covered risk factors etc.

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

1. Atleast 10 years of work experience, preferably in leading audits for large FMCG organizations
2. Possession of a reputable accounting or business degree, such as Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), CFE
3. Proven ability in engaging with senior stakeholders, business unit leaders.
4. Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to all organizational levels.
5. Strategic thinker with the capacity to make decisions based on a balanced assessment of risks and business drivers.
6. Commitment to professional development and staying abreast with changes in the market.

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

1. Awareness and knowledge about FMCG industry best practices across business process areas.