Finance Compliance Senior Manager, IMFT

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Risk Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Finance Compliance Senior Manager, IMFT

Possible Locations: Beerse (Belgium), Leiden (Netherlands), Zug (Switzerland), other locations within EMEA will be equally considered

Contract type: Full time, permanent

IMFT is the transformation program within Innovative Medicine Finance, dedicated to enabling Finance and its business partners to deliver superior value and sustainable competitive advantage for our organization, partners, and patients.

We are advancing Finance with digital competencies and tools to become an insight-driven partner that accelerates decision-making, optimizes resources, and sparks innovation. Our focus is on identifying what matters most, prioritizing initiatives with real impact, sequencing change strategically, and bringing discipline to our transformation efforts.

As a member of IMFT, you’ll be at the heart of delivering an integrated, cross-functional transformation that optimizes resources, investment allocation, and value creation across the organization. 

We are searching for the Best talent for IMFT Finance Compliance Senior Manager.

The Finance Compliance Senior Manager is responsible for defining the compliance strategy of the digital transformation of systems and processes, by defining and leading the IMFT compliance governance across all IMFT projects and Value Stream initiatives.

Acting as a strategic leader to Value Stream Leads and IMFT Leaders, this role provides end to end compliance assurance while managing interdependencies and cumulative risk across the different IMFT projects, ensuring consistent risk based oversight of technology, data and process.

With accountability for setting standards, methodologies and operating models, and leading a dedicated team of compliance experts, this role ensures transformation initiatives align with the strategical vision of the IMFT org while enabling execution at scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and maintain the compliance governance framework for Innovative Medicines Finance transformation initiatives, adapting enterprise ICFR and SOX frameworks to the specific context of large-scale process, data, and technology transformations.

• Establish transformation-specific compliance strategies and priorities for each value stream, ensuring early and consistent integration of compliance considerations into program planning and design phases.

• Develop and own standardized methodologies for transformation-related risk assessment, internal controls, and data integrity (i.e interfaces), to be applied consistently across all IM Finance transformation programs.

• Translate regulatory and internal control requirements (e.g., SOX, ICFR, data integrity) into clear, actionable compliance guidance tailored to individual transformation programs and initiatives.

• Provide oversight of compliance risks arising from concurrent transformation initiatives, identifying cross-program dependencies, cumulative risk exposures, and areas requiring coordinated mitigation.

• Define governance expectations, assessment criteria, and compliance deliverables for transformation programs, enabling execution teams to deploy controls, testing, and remediation activities in line with approved standards.

• Partner with value stream Directors and Senior Directors to advise on compliance implications of transformation decisions, design choices, and implementation approaches, while maintaining accountability for the compliance blueprint rather than execution.

• Ensure alignment between transformation compliance governance and the broader Compliance North Star, enterprise control frameworks, and Finance transformation objectives

• Lead and coordinate a team of compliance transformation leads to value streams, providing direction, prioritization, and oversight of their support to individual programs.

• Establish and maintain guidance on key recurring compliance topics across transformations (e.g., interface assurance, source-to-target controls, error handling, access and change controls in new systems).

• Monitor the maturity and effectiveness of compliance governance across transformation programs, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, or emerging risks requiring strategic intervention.

• Act as the central point of accountability within IM Finance Transformation for defining how compliance requirements apply to transformation initiatives, while enabling downstream teams to execute assessments, controls, and testing.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Acquired University degree in University degree in Finance or Economics or related fields.

• Min. 8-10 years of previous experience in Finance roles is required, preferably in significant system transformation projects.

• Working knowledge of financial and IT internal controls

• Working knowledge of SOX 404, US GAAP, and IFRS

• Working knowledge in supply chain environment

• Ability to proactively identify and mitigate process risks.

• Understanding of continuous process improvement techniques

• Anticipate needs, assess and manage business risk taking; escalate issues that may impact their process globally; manage through times of crisis and ambiguity/

• Experience working in a complex, multi-ERP / system environment. Experience with SAP S4 Hana highly preferred.

• People management skills and ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment is required.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps, Budget Management, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Management, Fact-Based Decision Making, Financial Analysis, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Internal Controls, Organizing, Predictive Modeling, Process Improvements, Regulatory Environment, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Risk Measurement, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility