Pre Audit Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Conduct pre-audit of vendor payments, employee reimbursements, advances, purchase-related transactions, and other financial disbursements before payment processing.
• Verify invoices, purchase orders, work orders, contracts, supporting documents, and approvals for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure transactions comply with the company's policies, SOPs, Delegation of Authority (DOA) approval matrix, and applicable statutory requirements.
• Validate accuracy of calculations, applicable taxes, deductions, rates, quantities, payment terms, and supporting documentation.
• Review procurement-to-payment processes and ensure appropriate controls have been followed.
• Identify duplicate payments, incorrect claims, unsupported expenses, deviations from contractual terms, and potential financial leakages.
• Verify compliance with applicable GST, TDS, and other taxation requirements, wherever relevant.
• Highlight control gaps, policy deviations, exceptions, and high-risk transactions to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain detailed records of audit observations, exceptions, and closure status.
• Coordinate with Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Business Teams, and other functions for clarification and resolution of audit queries.
• Track pending audit observations and ensure timely closure of identified exceptions.
• Recommend process improvements and stronger internal controls based on recurring audit findings.
• Support internal, statutory, and external audit requirements by providing relevant documentation and transaction details.
• Prepare periodic MIS and management reports covering audit observations, transaction volumes, rejection rates, recurring exceptions, and key risk areas.
• Assist in fraud-risk identification and escalate suspicious or unusual transactions in accordance with company procedures.
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of financial and business information.

Preferred candidate profile

Chartered Accountant