Consultant, Audit

Overview

Audit Consultant role within the EHS Audit team of ERM's Consulting Delivery Hub in India, supporting global consulting delivery by managing discrete audit tasks or phases and executing assigned audit areas independently.

What you'll do

• Plan and deliver assigned audit sections, protocol areas or discrete phases under Audit Team Lead direction.
• Plan sampling and testing for assigned sections using audit-risk concepts such as inherent, control and detection risk.
• Apply risk-based sampling and testing concepts to assigned work areas.
• Execute assigned protocol areas independently and evaluate evidence against audit criteria.
• Gather, assess and document sufficient, relevant and reliable evidence against criteria.
• Assess control design and operating effectiveness for assigned audit areas.
• Draft findings, observations, nonconformities and improvement opportunities for Team Lead review.
• Coordinate with process owners on evidence requests, remediation actions and issue tracking.
• Maintain audit documentation, findings trackers and audit trails to ERM standards.
• Supervise subcontractors and technical experts during fieldwork in line with ERM health, safety and ethics expectations.
• Support client meetings, findings presentations, training delivery and in-field coaching where required.
• Identify possible change orders, follow-on opportunities and improvements to audit delivery.
• Deliver high standards of client work and build meaningful internal and external client relationships.
• Participate in active client engagement such as proposal support and deliverable presentation.
• Build internal network and contribute to knowledge management.
• Exhibit inclusive behaviours and act as buddy to Consulting Associates or Senior Consulting Associates.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of professional experience in EHS consulting, environmental compliance, environmental auditing or regulatory compliance.
• Relevant experience in audit, EHS regulatory compliance, management systems, sustainability, consulting or industry roles.
• Strong audit-methodology knowledge and growing fieldwork and evidence-evaluation competence across at least one management-system standard.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple assignments, deadlines and stakeholders.
• Analytical thinking, clear communication and confidence working with process owners, senior stakeholders and external parties.
• Experience contributing to audit documentation, findings trackers, evidence trails and reporting outputs.
• Willingness to travel for fieldwork where project requirements apply.
• Demonstrated experience independently planning and conducting environmental, EHS, or management system audits for clients across North America (NA) and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa).

Nice to have

• Master's degree in environmental science, engineering, EHS, sustainability or a related discipline.
• Exposure to EHS regulatory compliance audits, management-system assessments or sustainability framework reviews.
• Familiarity with data analytics or digital tools that support EHS management systems and audit delivery.
• Desirable credentials include EMS, QMS, OSHAS or similar professional registration where relevant.
• Professional certifications such as ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor, ISO 45001:2018 Lead Auditor, ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor or equivalent internationally recognized audit certifications.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Based in the Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India, working with colleagues worldwide.