Role Purpose
The Risk Assessment Lead is accountable for overseeing enterprise risk management for AZPIL, ensuring effective controls, policies, and monitoring mechanisms are in place to protect the organisation from internal and external risk exposure.
The role has end-to-end responsibility for:
• Internal audit leadership and execution
• Enterprise risk assessment and maintenance of the risk register
• Financial controls framework oversight
• Internal monitoring of high-risk business areas
• Forensic risk and whistleblowing review support
• Process excellence, simplification, and automation initiatives

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the enterprise risk agenda by proactively identifying key risks and ensuring appropriate mitigating controls, processes, and governance mechanisms are established.
• Develop and manage the annual internal audit plan based on risk assessment and periodic refresh of the audit universe.
• Oversee quarterly internal audits, partnering with external consultants and internal stakeholders to ensure timely completion, robust reporting,



and effective presentation of findings to Board committees.
• Track and follow up on remediation actions arising from internal audit reports to ensure timely and sustainable closure.
• Oversee Business Responsibility & sustainability report (BRSR), partnering with auditors and internal stakeholders to ensure timely completion, robust reporting.
• Own and maintain the Risk Register in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, capturing active, emerging, and enduring risks, along with mitigation plans for presentation to governance committees.
• Own the Financial Controls Framework (FCF) for the India Marketing Company, ensuring alignment with global standards while incorporating additional local controls where required.
• Independently monitor high-risk areas such as Patient Assistance Programs, diagnostics, and government business supply, ensuring processes are compliant with AstraZeneca standards and cont

📌 Risk Assessment Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Mumbai