Internal Audit Talent and Methodology Director

The mandate

The Director will connect internal-audit methodology to the judgement, supervision and specialist capability required in live engagements. Training, templates and talent processes often operate separately, making it hard to know whether auditors can apply standards under ambiguity and challenge. This permanent role will treat observed audit work as the centre of professional development.

The portfolio owns methodology maintenance, role expectations, capability assessment, technical learning, reviewer calibration and succession. It must distinguish gaps solved by instruction from those caused by unclear authority, workload, incentives or insufficient specialist access.

The Director may approve methodology interpretations, certify defined audit capabilities, require supervised practice and recommend deployment restrictions where evidence is inadequate. Engagement leaders retain report conclusions; people leaders retain employment decisions. The role provides rigorous evidence for both without collapsing them together.

The first year will establish a capability architecture, redesign critical learning around live cases, calibrate reviewers and build succession for scarce roles. Success will be measured through stronger files, fewer recurring review defects and independent performance in new assignments rather than course attendance.

What you will own

• Define role capabilities across audit judgement, evidence, data, technology, financial control, communication, supervision and independence.
• Assess capability through work samples, simulations, observed reviews and live engagement outcomes.
• Map recurring file defects to knowledge, judgement, supervision, workload, authority and methodology root causes.
• Redesign learning into case clinics, supervised practice, rotations, specialist pairing and decision calibration.
• Establish certification gates for engagement leadership, issue validation, data analytics and specialist audit work.
• Refresh methodology through evidence from quality reviews, standards changes and difficult internal interpretations.
• Build succession plans for enterprise, regional, methodology, quality and specialist leadership positions.
• Report whether development interventions improve file quality, review efficiency and independent judgement.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in internal audit, methodology, quality or professional learning, including Director-level leadership.
• Chartered Accountant membership with ICAI in good standing, supported by CIA, CISA or an equivalent audit-practice credential.
• Evidence of changing a talent intervention after proving a file defect arose from authority or workload rather than knowledge.
• Deep understanding of audit methodology, evidence, supervision, ratings, quality review and adult professional development.
• A case where you withheld capability certification until live work demonstrated sound judgement.
• Experience linking succession and deployment decisions to transparent evidence without taking employment authority.
• A record of improving audit files and reviewer outcomes rather than training-completion statistics alone.

Working terms and boundaries

• This continuing appointment has first-year gates after capability design, first certification cycle, reviewer calibration and succession review.
• Method interpretation and capability evidence are included; engagement conclusions and employment decisions retain their established owners.
• Hybrid attendance is concentrated around case clinics, live observation, quality calibration and leadership reviews.
• Course completion alone cannot establish certification, and methodology cannot be changed merely to accommodate weak practice.
• Year-one completion requires operating certification, improved quality evidence, critical-role succession and sustainable internal faculty.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 9 October 2026. Mandate reference AUD-PER-2026-PNQ-54.