An exciting opportunity to work as a lead auditor at Experian responsible for planning, executing, and leading internal audits across business / IT processes and regulatory compliance areas. This role ensures adherence to internal controls, risk management frameworks, and compliance with applicable laws and global standards. The position requires strong analytical skills, leadership capabilities, and the ability to provide actionable insights to senior management. The incumbents responsibilities shall also include performing audits that provide an independent and objective evaluation of risk within the business and leading the audit function that include duties like maintaining an overview of the business related strategies and risk metrics to identify areas for investigations, leading audits of strategy management processes, and supporting colleagues engaged in reviews of strategically important initiatives, business areas, products or client types.
What you will be doing
- Assist in developing risk-based audit plans and programs aligned with organizational objectives. Lead end-to-end audits, including scoping, fieldwork, and reporting.
- Ensure completion of assigned audits and documentation of work papers on time.
- Track status of issues reported and assist in keeping relevant processes bench marked to Best Practices. Assist in keeping Audit Procedure Manual and checklists current and updated. Devise audit checklists for use of internal/concurrent Auditors and test products along with processes/procedures to foresee pitfall and bottlenecks and ensure these are audited/resolved.
- Provide improvement/ suggestions to existing process / systems to line management
- Prepare clear, concise audit reports with actionable recommendations. Present findings to senior management and track remediation progress.
- Executing Internal Audit Plan, risk assessment, control testing, process review, strong analytical, and negotiating skills to implement audit observation
- Planning Audit, preparing Audit Program and Audit checklist and finalizing in consultation of the Audit Partners.
- Having in-depth understanding of the processes, analyzing prevailing practice in the industry, determining gaps, highlighting risks.
- Assist in the Special Assignments as per Management direction & Investigations.
- Independently conduct Audits and responsible to participate in audits of various Businesses with particular emphasis on Product / Operations audits.