03 Nov
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Home Bazaar Services
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Navi Mumbai
03 Nov
Home Bazaar Services
Navi Mumbai
Strengthening Financial controls, prevent revenue leakage, and build scalable Risk-management systems. Who are we? Home Bazaar Services Pvt. Ltd. is a property advisory business supporting customers through their property-buying journey. The attached company profile describes 13+ years of expertise and operations across 9+ metro cities in India. Homebazaar is approximately 1,100 people robust and aims to grow to 2,000 by the end of the next financial year, making strong, scalable people processes an important business enabler. Role overview: We are looking for a commercially oriented Chartered Accountant to lead internal audit, financial control, and risk-management initiatives across a high-volume service business. The role will go beyond traditional compliance reviews to identify revenue leakage, prevent financial losses, strengthen processes, and build technology-enabled controls. The successful candidate will partner with business and functional teams to convert audit findings into measurable improvements, stronger governance, and sustainable business outcomes.
Key responsibilities
1. Financial Audit & Internal Controls
- Audit financial transactions, payments, receipts, expenses, and reconciliations to assess accuracy, completeness, and control effectiveness.
- Verify compliance with financial policies, approval matrices, delegated authorities, and applicable statutory requirements.
- Identify irregularities, control gaps, unauthorised transactions, and deviations; recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Monitor accounts for payable ageing, outstanding liabilities, vendor advances, and payment schedules to ensure timely settlements.
- Oversee vendor account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies, payment disputes, and escalations in coordination with relevant stakeholders. 2. Revenue Leakage, Loss Prevention & Cost Efficiency
- Identify revenue leakages, missed billing, duplicate payments, incorrect payouts, and avoidable costs through transaction-level analysis.
- Establish preventive controls and monitoring mechanisms to minimise financial losses, process lapses, and recurring exceptions.
- Track financial recoveries, savings, and losses prevented,
and report measurable business impact.
- Identify cost-saving and process-improvement opportunities through detailed review of transactions, workflows, and financial controls. 3. Process Development & Internal Control Systems
- Design and strengthen internal controls, SOPs, maker-checker mechanisms, and approval workflows across business processes.
- Identify process gaps and drive corrective and preventive measures with clearly defined ownership and timelines.
- Build scalable controls that minimise human error, fraud exposure, policy violations, and operational dependency.
- Review control effectiveness periodically and recommend enhancements as business volumes, systems, and processes evolve. 4. Systems Audit & Automation
- Audit high-volume transactions and process controls across CRM, ERP, Finance, HR, and Operations systems.
- Oversee audits of ERP systems, applications, and IT General Controls (ITGC) to assess system access, change management, and operational security controls.
- Implement automated audit checks, exception reports, and risk-monitoring dashboards to improve audit coverage and early identification of exceptions.
- Leverage technology and data analytics to improve audit efficiency, transaction testing, and continuous monitoring. 5. Operational Audit & Compliance
- Conduct risk-based audits across departments, branches, and business functions, focusing on process adherence and operational effectiveness.
- Assess compliance with company policies, process guidelines, contractual obligations, and defined approval mechanisms.
- Identify operational inefficiencies, control weaknesses, and opportunities for cost optimisation; recommend practical improvements. 6. Fraud Detection & Risk Management
- Identify suspicious transactions, financial manipulation,
potential fraud indicators, and breaches of internal controls.
- Investigate irregularities, establish root causes, quantify exposure where possible, and recommend measures to prevent recurrence.
- Conduct risk assessments, including fraud-risk assessments, and develop or update Risk Control Matrices (IFC/RCM) to support ongoing compliance and risk mitigation.
- Escalate significant financial, operational, and control risks to senior management with clear findings and recommended actions. 7. Audit Reporting & Corrective Actions
- Success measures
- Agree role-specific targets with Senior Management. Suggested measures
- Follow up on corrective actions, validate implementation, and ensure recurring audit observations and process failures are eliminated
- Strong experience in internal audit, financial controls, risk management, and audit of high-volume transactions. What you will bring:
- Experience in designing SOPs, internal control systems, maker-checker processes, approval workflows, and preventive mechanisms.
- Exposure to ERP/CRM audits, application audits, IT General Controls (ITGC), data analytics, and audit automation.
- Working knowledge of Zoho Books and Tally is preferred, along with the ability to analyse data across business systems.
- Experience of handling multi-location operations and conducting cross-functional audits across Finance, HR, Sales, and Operations.
- Ability to investigate irregularities, perform fraud-risk assessments, and develop or update IFC/Risk Control Matrices (RCM).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence corrective action across teams.
- Commercially oriented mindset with a focus on building systems, preventing losses, improving business efficiency, and delivering measurable outcomes rather than limiting audit to compliance reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, team coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines, resolve escalations, maintain accuracy, and drive continuous process improvements
📌 Internal Auditor (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 Home Bazaar Services
📍 Navi Mumbai