Finance Associate - Post Payment Audit

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
  
  

Your Impact

You'll work with a team of expense auditors and investigators on finance-related issues and perform audits on Firm billed transactions of individuals whose name figures in the risk scoring model.

In this role, you'll meticulously audit the flagged centrally billed taxi, meal, airline, and hotel transactions to identify potential discrepancies or misuse, analyze reports from expense reporting tools and vendors, and perform research on the internet to validate the business reason for certain expenses. You'll be responsible for assessing adherence to different office policies.

You'll seek clarifications from colleagues about questionable transactions and request further information, if necessary. Based on the responses and additional information gathered, you'll determine if there is a valid business reason for incurring the charges. You'll compile all the findings into comprehensive reports and prepare final audit decks for leadership, and office Finance.

You'll identify anomalies, trends, and patterns in user behavior that may indicate misuse of the centrally billed program, allowing you to contribute significantly to the integrity and efficiency of the auditing process.

You will work in our Global Finance & Accounts Shared Services Center in Chennai and will be a part of the Post-Payment Audit team. This group performs investigations into expenses of Firm members.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Graduate in Accounting/Auditing/Finance, or related discipline
• Experience in a shared service environment or audit firm, knowledge on Fraud & Investigation will be an added advantage (CFE preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Sound understanding of audit theories, principles, and practices
• Use logic to analyze new audit scenarios and deal with ambiguity comfortably
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proficiency in advanced excel, word and in PowerPoint for audit reports
• Highly organized in performing daily audits and detail oriented
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Establish new controls in the process and streamline any manual efforts
• Contribute towards process improvement and automation
• Basic knowledge of data analytics will be an added advantage