Position Summary:

The Audit & Compliance Lead is a critical governance and risk-management role within the Workforce Experience (WFx) organization. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring end-to-end compliance integrity, audit readiness, and regulatory adherence across onboarding, talent experience, and ongoing workforce operations. Serving as the central control point for audits, documentation quality, and compliance execution, you will enable WFx to scale delivery while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, consistency, and risk mitigation.

Key Responsibilities:

Audit Execution & Readiness:

- Own and execute all internal, client, and regulatory audits, including Form I-9, onboarding documentation, adverse action, and quality control audits.
- Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready documentation and evidence repositories.
- Serve as the primary liaison for audit-related inquiries and findings, coordinating responses across all stakeholders.

Compliance Governance & Risk Management
- Identify compliance gaps, root causes, and systemic risks; recommend and strictly track corrective actions.
- Partner with HR and Legal departments to interpret new or evolving compliance requirements and translate them into operational controls.

Process & Documentation Control
- Own the governance of onboarding and workforce documentation, including system-to-document mapping and version control.




- Ensure compliance standards are embedded directly into workflows, tools, and playbooks rather than being enforced manually.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Escalations
- Act as a key escalation partner for Talent Experience and Onboarding teams regarding compliance-related issues.
- Support exception handling and decision-making through defined escalation paths and risk frameworks.
- Contribute to WFx playbooks, SOPs, and training materials to strengthen compliance maturity across the board.

Experience & Qualifications:

- 4+ years of direct audit and compliance experience, featuring hands-on ownership of internal, client, or regulatory audits.
- Proven experience conducting Excel-based audits, including data validation, reconciliation, exception tracking, and reporting.
- Experience auditing data across multiple systems (HRIS, ATS, onboarding, payroll) and identifying cross-system discrepancies.
- Robust understanding of audit controls, documentation standards, and remediation tracking.
- Exceptional attention to detail with a strict quality, risk, and accuracy mindset.
- Ability to independently manage multiple audits, strict deadlines, and various stakeholders while maintaining constant audit readiness.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

- 95 to 100% of internal, client, and regulatory audits completed accurately and on time.
- 90%+ of audits completed with no material findings or rework required.

📌 Audit & Compliance Lead (Hyderabad)
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📍 Hyderabad