Lead Internal Audit - Manufacturing
Aditya Birla Group
Altimus Worli, Maharashtra, Indiaonsiteseniorfull time2d ago
Aditya Birla Group
Company: Cement
Experience: 10-15 years
Job Purpose : The Vertical Lead IA- MFG will lead the Internal Audit function across UltraTech's manufacturing operations, providing independent assurance on risk management, internal controls, compliance, and operational effectiveness across all plants, mines, power units, and manufacturing support functions. The role drives a risk-based audit approach to identify control gaps, improve operational efficiency, mitigate risks, strengthen governance, and support management in achieving business objectives through continuous process improvement and data-driven insights.
Job Context & Major Challenges :
UltraTech Cement has expanded its manufacturing footprint to over 200+ MTPA, making it one of the largest cement manufacturers globally. With a vast network of integrated plants, grinding units, mines, captive power plants, and logistics operations, maintaining robust governance, internal controls, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and risk management is critical. The Vertical Head – Internal Audit (Manufacturing) is responsible for leading the manufacturing audit function across all locations, providing independent assurance on operational, financial, compliance, and strategic risks. The role acts as a key partner to manufacturing leadership in strengthening controls, driving process excellence, safeguarding assets, mitigating fraud risks, and enhancing overall business performance through a risk-based audit approach.
Major Challenges
• Providing effective audit oversight across a large, geographically dispersed manufacturing network with diverse operational risks.
• Identifying emerging risks related to operations, maintenance, projects, procurement, inventory, energy management, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.
• Balancing independent assurance with business partnership while driving timely closure of audit observations.
• Leveraging data analytics and digital audit tools to enhance audit coverage, efficiency, and real-time risk monitoring.
• Ensuring consistent control standards and governance practices across plants while adapting to evolving business, regulatory, and technology risks.
• Detecting and mitigating fraud, leakages, process inefficiencies, and control gaps without disrupting manufacturing continuity.
KRAs:
1. Risk-Based Audit Planning & Coverage :
Develop and execute annual risk-based audit plans across plants, mines, power units, logistics, and manufacturing support functions.
• Ensure comprehensive coverage of key operational and strategic risks.
2.Operational Excellence & Control Effectiveness :
Assess adequacy and effectiveness of controls across production, maintenance, procurement, inventory, quality, projects, and energy management.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and productivity improvement.
3. Governance, Compliance & Risk Management:
Evaluate compliance with internal policies, statutory requirements, EHS norms, and corporate governance standards.
• Strengthen risk mitigation and control frameworks across manufacturing operations.
4. Audit Analytics & Insight Generation :
Leverage data analytics to identify anomalies, control gaps, leakages, and emerging risks.
• Provide actionable insights to management for improved decision-making.
5. Stakeholder Management & Closure Governance :
Drive timely closure of audit observations and sustainable implementation of corrective actions.
• Partner with manufacturing leadership to strengthen governance and accountability.
6. Audit Transformation & Risk Monitoring :
Partner with the Value Creation Vertical to drive digitization, automation of audit processes, and continuous control monitoring across assigned functions.
• Conduct thematic reviews and trend analysis of key risk areas to strengthen controls and establish accountability at the user level.
7. Governance, Standardization & Best Practices :
Drive unified implementation of audit best practices, controls, and governance standards across units, plants, zones, clusters, and functions.
• Ensure consistent adoption of recommendations and ownership of corrective actions to enhance risk management and compliance effectiveness.
Skills: Audit, Governance, Risk
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