From assurance function to strategic risk advisor.
I'm Subir Purohit, a triple-qualified internal audit executive (CA · CMA · CIMA) with 16+ years building and leading audit functions across India, the GCC, MEA, and Europe — for three of the world's most demanding FMCG names: PepsiCo, Mondelēz International, and Asian Paints.
My work sits at the intersection of governance and technology. I don't just recommend automation — I build it. Using Python and agentic AI, I've deployed a zero-cost analytics pipeline that gives near-total population coverage across finance, supply chain, and commercial operations, cutting fieldwork time by 60–70%.
At Oman Refreshment Company, I built the internal audit function from the ground up, reporting directly to the Audit Committee — delivering full regulatory compliance (externally validated), identifying multi-million-dollar value opportunities, and detecting financial misstatements before they reached the market.
The through-line of my career: turning internal audit from a box-ticking assurance function into a trusted strategic advisor to Boards, Audit Committees, and C-suite leadership. That argument, in long form, is what the articles are for.
“Audit isn't about catching what went wrong. It's about seeing what could.”
Operating principles
Assurance is a product.
Design it for the people who consume it — the board, the committee, the business.
Automate the routine. Elevate the judgement.
Code does the sampling; humans do the thinking.
Risk before findings.
A heat map the board acts on beats a hundred low-value observations.
Credibility is earned in the field.
Business fluency first, audit opinion second.