
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
- Audit Plan Creation
- Interact with key stakeholders of business/functions teams to identify any new processes/systems implemented, challenges being faced by business/functions and priority areas for resolution
- Lead own team to audit observations of previous years and conduct market research to identify the priority areas, systems and processes to be covered in audit plan
- Contribute to the develop annual audit plan to monitor the level of adherence to (a) regulatory requirements (b) BAGIC’s internal policies and controls; Submit draft plans to supervisor for approval and incorporate any feedback/inputs received
- Facilitate presenting the plan to Audit Committee, and upon approval, oversee dissemination of audit plan with all relevant stakeholders across the organization
- Audit Execution and Conclusion
- Conduct audit of internal controls, systems, processes and procedures followed by various functions/ departments to assess the effectiveness of the existing control mechanisms;
- Interact with internal and external stakeholders (such as customers and channel partners) to identify systemic issues, compare with best practices across the industry/markets and highlight any other audit observations
- Suggest recommendations & carry out follow ups for identified audit observations/issues/best practices to facilitate achievement of the cost savings, risk reduction and increased effectiveness of internal systems and processes
- Provide feedback to the audited parties, Audit Committee and other relevant stakeholders on design of controls, current compliance levels with both internal policies and regulatory requirements
- Drive completion of audits with business/functions within approved audit plan timelines; Escalate complex issues to supervisor for input
- Organization-wide Action Planning Support
- Based on audit observations from Head Office and Branch audits, identify and share organization-wide priority areas with HODs for action-planning
- Collate action plans received from HODs of various businesses/functions and submit the action-planning report (for the organization) to supervisor in order to enable him/her to present/submit the same to Audit Committee, and other senior management stakeholders
- Drive submission of relevant inter audit reports (observations, action plans) to statutory auditors, as needed
- Team Management
- Participate in recruitment process to identify the right talent for various positions within the function
- Conduct training needs identification and drive adequate participation of team in training programs
- Establish individual performance expectations and evaluation metrics, and regularly review individual performance
- Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance functional knowledge