Aditya Birla Group | Lead Internal Audit - Manufacturing

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assess adequacy and effectiveness of controls across production, maintenance, procurement, inventory, quality, projects, and energy management.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and productivity improvement.
• Evaluate compliance with internal policies, statutory requirements, EHS norms, and corporate governance standards.
• Strengthen risk mitigation and control frameworks across manufacturing operations.
• Leverage data analytics to identify anomalies, control gaps, leakages, and emerging risks.
• Provide actionable insights to management for improved decision-making.
• Drive timely closure of audit observations and sustainable implementation of corrective actions.
• Partner with manufacturing leadership to strengthen governance and accountability.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Aditya Birla Group

The Aditya Birla Group is one of India's largest business groups. Its companies work in metals (Hindalco and Novelis), cement (UltraTech), cellulosic fibres, chemicals and paints (Grasim), financial services (Aditya Birla Capital), fashion and retail, renewables and telecom. The group is chaired by Kumar Mangalam Birla.

Each group company runs its own finance and accounts function. That creates openings in plant and business-unit accounting, costing and MIS, taxation, treasury, internal audit and company secretarial work, across corporate offices and manufacturing locations.

• Industry: Diversified conglomerate
• Headquarters: Mumbai, India
• In India: Group companies and plants across India
• Hiring unit: Cement