Internal Audit

About the Job:

We are looking for a passionate Internal Audit professional to join our Finance team at Manipal Hospitals!

About Manipal Hospitals:

As a pioneer in healthcare, Manipal Hospitals is among the top healthcare providers in India serving over 8 million patients annually, with a focus on providing affordable, high-quality healthcare services. Manipal’s integrated network today has a pan-India footprint of 50 hospitals across 24 cities with 13400+ licensed beds, and a talented pool of 11,000+ doctors and an employee strength of over 25000+.

Manipal Hospitals provides comprehensive curative and preventive care for a multitude of patients from around the globe. Manipal Hospitals is AAHRPP accredited and most of the hospitals in its network are NABH, NABL, ER, Blood Bank accredited and recognized for Nursing Excellence.

Role: Internal Audit

Location: Old Airport Road, Bangalore

What You’ll Do:

To assist the senior auditors with examining financial records, testing internal controls, and ensuring process, operational and regulatory compliance in a timely manner.

To supports the audit team across all phases of an audit, including planning, fieldwork, testing, and drafting reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Support internal audit fieldwork covering financial, operational, and internal control processes across units and HO functions.
• Conduct unit and HO visits to review books, records, systems, and processes as part of audit assignments.
• Assist in ICFR and RCM testing, including sample-based testing to assess control effectiveness and efficiency.
• Participate in process walkthroughs with business stakeholders to understand workflows and identify control gaps.
• Prepare and maintain audit workpapers, documenting test procedures, observations, evidence, and findings.
• Perform data analytics using Excel and other tools to identify anomalies, control deficiencies, duplication, extravagance, and non-compliance.
• Support continuous control monitoring (CCM) and key control automation initiatives within the Internal Audit function.
• Assist in drafting audit findings, reports, MIS, and management presentations, and communicate observations to stakeholders.
• Track and validate corrective actions and audit remediation, ensuring timely and adequate closure of identified gaps.
• Promote compliance, corporate governance, ethics, SOP adherence, ITGC, SOD, and regulatory requirements, while supporting training and continuous process improvements.

What We Are Looking For:

• Qualified CA / CA Inter / ACCA /CMA
• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in internal audit, IFC / ICFR and ITGC, Analytics & CCM
• Foundational knowledge of accounting/auditing standards. High proficiency in Microsoft Excel is mandatory. Familiarity with data visualization tools (like Power BI or SQL) is a plus.
• Ready to travel across various cities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with business stakeholders and team members

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment

Job Summary

To assist the senior auditors with examining financial records, testing internal controls, and ensuring process, operational and regulatory compliance in a timely manner.

To supports the audit team across all phases of an audit, including planning, fieldwork, testing, and drafting reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Audit Fieldwork:
  • Assist senior auditors in testing internal controls, financial records, and operational procedures to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
  • Visit units & HO function to inspect books, records and systems, to perform audit as required.
  • Support the regional or central audit team with inventory counts, ad hoc audits, and data analysis as assigned
• Document Workpapers:
  • Prepare, maintain, and organize clear audit working papers detailing test results and findings.
• Process Walkthroughs:
  • Participate in interviews and walkthroughs with business process owners to map workflows and identify control gaps.
  • To support the senior auditors to test ICFR RCM with adequate samples to determine efficiency and effectiveness of internal systems and processes.
• Data Analytics:
  • Gather and analyse large financial or operational datasets using Excel or other analytical tools to identify anomalies.
  • Analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated efforts, extravagance, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies
  • To Support IA team in CCM / key control automation process
• Draft Findings:
  • Help summarize audit testing exceptions and assist in drafting sections of the final internal audit reports.
  • Assist in assessing and preparing periodic / specific audit reports /MIS as desired by the management and communicate results of audit to stakeholders

• Track Remediation:
  •  Assist in monitoring and verifying the implementation of corrective actions recommended in previous audits.
  • To assist in using the audit findings for rectifications and improvements. Follow up determining adequacy of corrective action and implementation of same
• Compliance Review:
  • Verify company adherence to internal policies, industry standards, SOPs, ITGC controls, SODs and regulatory frameworks as relevant.
  • To assist in identifying the training requirements and imparting  the training
  • Ensure good corporate governance and ethics in the organization

Required Qualifications

• Academic Standing: Candidates with CA / ACCA qualifications  are highly preferred.
• Preferred minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in internal audit, IFC / ICFR and ITGC, Analytics & CCM
• Technical Skills: Foundational knowledge of accounting/auditing standards. High proficiency in Microsoft Excel is mandatory. Familiarity with data visualization tools (like Power BI or SQL) is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and professional communication skills. Extreme attention to detail and ability to handle confidential data safely.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with business stakeholders and team members
• Ready to travel across various cities