Mehak Bedi

A. Client Portfolio

World's largest snacks company, with a presence in 150 countries.

• Working closely with the client’s Internal Audit (IA) team to jointly deliver the annual audit plan, owning end-to-end planning, stakeholder management, execution oversight, and reporting.
• Executing highly specialised audits that require deep sector-specific knowledge and advanced subject-matter understanding.
• Identifying the appropriate subject matter experts (SMEs) needed for specialised reviews, managing their onboarding, and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Major U.S. Healthcare System (51 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics, across seven states).

• Leading the Internal Audit Programme for one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S., driving the annual enterprise-wide risk assessment and co-developing the Internal Audit plan to address key clinical, operational, financial, and digital risks.
• Managing an audit team of over eight members and liaising with workstreams such as Data Analytics, Digital Risk, and others.
• Preparing comprehensive presentations for the Audit Committee, summarising audit results, the status of the annual audit plan, key risk themes, and other critical updates for Board-level oversight.
• Identifying and driving opportunities for automation and digitisation, partnering with technology teams to design and implement scalable solutions. Successfully delivered an AI-driven agent that auto-populates final audit reports simply by uploading the issue listing, significantly reducing manual reporting effort, improving consistency, and enhancing turnaround time.
• Monitoring staff performance and developing improvement plans.

B. Leadership Role

• Lead for the Consumer Products and Retail sector (CPR) at risk consulting level, driving sector build-out by developing tailored solutions, enabling practitioner upskilling through focused L&D initiatives, supporting key proposals, and orchestrating strategic client visits to strengthen market positioning, and business growth.
• Driving integration across the Americas market by building strong relationships with onshore stakeholders, and expanding capability footprint.
• Subject Matter Expert for conducting External Quality Assessments as per the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) published by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).

• Led risk-based and data analytics-driven internal audits for India's leading oil and natural gas client company, covering core operations including procurement to pay, cutback accounting, hydrocarbon and sales, CSR, security, infrastructure reviews, and statutory compliances.
• Served a manufacturing company based in Germany, encompassing an internal audit review of their procurement process and order to cash, highlighting design and process gaps, resulting in revenue leakage and blocking of working capital.
• Led Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption review for the world's largest producer of generic antibiotics, based in Switzerland. The scope was primarily focused on third-party vendors empanelled by the client, reviewing their compliance to identify gaps, and suggesting recommendations.

• Performed process streamlining/improvement reviews for one of the world's leading investment companies, involving benchmarking of the existing processes, advising on improvement opportunities, designing process flows, and documenting process narratives.
• Executed an advisory review for a housing finance company involving the assessment of their existing processes, suggesting recommendations, and successful implementation across areas such as cross-sell operations, corporate governance, and centralised operations.
• Executed end-to-end transformation projects for the client’s internal audit function, involving the review of existing processes and policies throughout the IA lifecycle. Identified critical gaps and provided actionable recommendations, incorporating leading practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the audit process.

• Key team member in the monthly MIS audit of a leading oil and natural gas company, with annual revenue exceeding INR 8000 crore, covering areas such as joint ventures, corporate book closure, treasury, revenue, compliance, and MIS vs book reconciliation. Worked closely with the finance team to ensure the accuracy of financial figures reported to the parent entity and compliance with accounting procedures.
• Conducted Controls Gap Assessment, Testing, and Rationalisation per ICFR Framework for India's third largest IT/ITES company, covering areas such as FSCP, Inventory, Procurement to Pay, Travel Claims, and Fixed Assets.