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Job Function:
FinanceJob Sub Function:
Finance Business PartnersJob Category:
ProfessionalAll Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of AmericaJob Description:
IM Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend)
Possible locations: Beerse, Belgium; Leiden, Netherlands; Zug, Switzerland; Titusville/ New Brunswick, United States of America
Contract: full-time, permanent
THE OPPORTUNITY
Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational Supply chain processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform (S4 Hana) for growth and efficiency gains.
How YOU can help:
The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have:
The Finance Compliance Manager is fully embedded in the IM Transcend program and serves as the integrated compliance and risk partner across the end-to-end transformation lifecycle.
The role safeguards successful program delivery by establishing and executing a holistic, risk-based compliance strategy across design, build, test, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state. It proactively identifies, assesses, monitors and mitigates financial, business process, technology and cross-program compliance risks; drives the program de-risking approach through stage gates, milestone reviews and transparent escalation; and provides leadership with clear risk insight to support informed go/no-go decisions.
The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have:
- Own and execute the end-to-end IM Transcend compliance strategy, framework, roadmap and integrated plan across design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state.
- Operate as a fully embedded member of the program, partnering with Program Leadership, PMO, value streams, functional teams and deployment leads to embed compliance requirements into program governance, decisions, plans and delivery milestones.
- Lead the program de-risking approach by proactively identifying, assessing, prioritizing and monitoring end-to-end compliance risks, dependencies and control impacts across processes, data, technology, interfaces and deployments.
- Define and govern risk appetite, mitigation actions, ownership, escalation paths and stage-gate criteria; provide timely risk insight and recommendations to support leadership go/no-go and release-readiness decisions.
- Establish and maintain the integrated compliance package and traceability across the process taxonomy, risks, controls, reports, interfaces, requirements, test evidence and run-state documentation.
- Drive a risk-based SOX and finance compliance testing strategy, ensuring control requirements are designed into test scenarios, execution evidence is complete and deficiencies are remediated before release.
- Lead engagement with Global Audit & Assurance and external auditors, coordinating scope, milestone-based reviews, walkthroughs, evidence and remediation to sustain audit readiness throughout the program lifecycle.
- Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting to senior leadership on risk exposure, mitigation status, compliance milestones, audit observations, emerging issues and recommended actions.
- Coordinate ICFR, ISRM, UAM, Technology Quality, GxP and other compliance workstreams so that requirements are integrated consistently and gaps, overlaps and cross-program dependencies are actively managed.
- Drive standardization, control optimization and automation opportunities, and ensure compliance capabilities, ownership and documentation transition effectively to deployment and run-state teams.
IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU
We would love to hear from YOU, if you have/are:
- Expertise in financial and IT internal controls, SOX 404, US GAAP and IFRS.
- Demonstrated experience leading compliance and risk management within a large-scale, global business or ERP transformation.
- Experience in complex multi-ERP environments; SAP S/4HANA transformation experience preferred.
- Knowledge of digital tools (PowerQuery, PowerBI, …) is a plus.
- Ability to translate end-to-end process, data, technology and deployment changes into clear risk, control and mitigation requirements.
- Ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment is required.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior leadership and internal and external assurance functions.
- 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.
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).
Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
Required Skills:
Internal Audit Controls, Internal Controls, Risk Management, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Control, Sarbanes Oxley AuditingPreferred Skills:
Budget Management, Coaching, Execution Focus, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Trends, Process Improvements, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Training People, Vendor ManagementThe anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$102,000.00 - $177,100.00Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Skills Required
- Expertise in financial and IT internal controls
- Knowledge of SOX 404 and Sarbanes-Oxley controls
- Knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS
- Experience leading compliance and risk management within a large-scale, global business or ERP transformation
- Ability to translate process, data, technology, and deployment changes into risk, control, and mitigation requirements
- Ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience engaging senior leadership and internal and external assurance functions
- Understanding of continuous process improvement techniques
- Ability to assess and manage business risk and escalate global process issues
- Experience in complex multi-ERP environments
- SAP S/4HANA transformation experience
- Knowledge of Power Query or Power BI
- Budget management experience
- Coaching and training experience
- Expense controls experience
- Financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and trend analysis experience
- Financial risk management experience
- Process improvement experience
- Vendor management experience
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