Vidya Balasubramaniam

I am a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant (Country rank holder – A.I.R -34) with over 16 years of work experience in Big 4, Conglomerate, Retail, Manufacturing, IT, ITES, Real estate, Staffing industries. I have experience working in multi culture environment ((latest onsite at New Zealand)

Core Competencies

• Corporate Governance framework
• Internal audit (3LoD) – framework, all 7 stages of audit from Planning to reporting , mitigation strategies
• Internal Controls ICS (2LoD) 
• Limited experience as 1LoD (Finance) 
• ICoFR 
• SOX 
• Control Self Assessments (CSA)
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) – ERM framework, risk assessment, risk mitigation
• monitoring whistle blower channel
• process improvements, training with workshops
• cost optimization
• productivity guidance
• Investigations (Financial , HR, Code of ethics and conduct related)
• Compliance management ( support to Legal, Compliance team) 
• MIS & visually appealing dashboards
• Audit committee presentations

Deloitte Haskins and Sells - 2006 to 2010

Reliance Industries - 2012 to 2015

MAcmillan - 2015 to 2017

Hewlett PAckard - 2017 to 2018

Brigade Group - 2018 to 2022

Adecco - 2022 to 2024

C.A (Chartered Accountant - All India Rank 34

CRCMP ( Certified Risk and Compliance Professional)

Several certifications (Global audit standards, CISA, Lean sigma green belt, robotics, artificial intelligence etc.)