- Handle statutory and regulatory compliance requirements
- Ensure timely filing of all statutory returns, declarations, and payments
- Coordinate with statutory auditors, tax auditors, consultants, and government authorities in India and overseas
- Manage internal, statutory, and tax audits including documentation and audit closure
- Maintain statutory calendars, trackers, and compliance MIS for multiple countries
- Monitor changes in laws and ensure timely implementation
- Support year-end closing, assessments, inspections, and regulatory reviews
- Maintain statutory registers, licenses, certificates, and audit records
· Assist in planning and executing internal audits as per the approved audit plan.
· Perform audits of accounts, payroll, HR, procurement, expense management, and inter-company transactions.
· Review internal controls and identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, and compliance risks.
· Test transactions and balances to ensure accuracy, completeness, and authorization.
· Support audits of overseas subsidiaries/branches while considering country-specific regulations, tax requirements, and labour laws.
· Coordinate with finance and HR teams handling global operations from India.
· Review compliance with transfer pricing policies, inter-company agreements, and cross-border transactions.
· Verify compliance with company policies, SOPs, and internal control frameworks.
· Assist in monitoring compliance with applicable laws such as Companies Act, Income Tax, GST, FEMA, and relevant foreign regulations.
· Identify operational, financial, and compliance risks and assist in preparing risk assessment reports.
· Prepare audit working papers, checklists, and documentation in line with internal audit standards.
· Draft audit observations, findings, and recommendations for review by the Internal Audit Lead.
· Track audit issues and follow up on implementation of corrective actions.
· Assist management in improving processes and strengthening internal controls.
· Support special audits, investigations, or management reviews as assigned.
· Coordinate with external auditors and statutory auditors when required.