The Role
Performs internal audits assessing governance, risk, controls, compliance, fraud, waste, and operational effectiveness. Supports audit planning, scoping, testing, data analysis, documentation, reporting, stakeholder interviews, and issue escalation. Develops risk-control matrices, dashboards, reports, and continuous monitoring tools. Partners with cross-functional teams and management to identify root causes, validate findings, and improve business processes.
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Sr. Associate, Internal Audit
BioMarin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. BioMarin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.
BioMarin Internal Audit is committed to helping BioMarin achieve its full potential in transforming patient’s lives by minimizing overall company risk. We pride ourselves in being objective and independent of the areas we assess, while maintaining our commitment to advance the organization. We provide independent assurance to the board of directors and management. Our disciplined approach evaluates the effectiveness of BioMarin’s risk management, control and governance processes. We also assist with proactive advisory projects. An open and transparent partnership helps us develop the appropriate context and understanding of the issues at hand, minimize surprises, and drive greater value in the outcomes.
In carrying out our mission, we pledge to:
- Be a trusted partner
- Lead with integrity & enthusiasm
- Focus on what matters
- Share industry practices
As part of our mission, we also aim to provide valuable business insights (covering governance, risk, and control, and beyond), using data analytics to identify potential indicators for non-compliance, fraud and waste.
Sr. Associate, Internal Audit:
This role reports to the Head of Internal Audit[SH1.1], and the Sr. Associate will be instrumental in building a world-class internal audit function, a function that provides both assurance and advisory services regarding BioMarin’s governance, risk and control effectiveness, as well as a function that generates actionable business insights.
This role partners with other members of the Internal Audit team and is responsible for performing audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of internal controls, to identify instances of non-compliance, ineffective or inefficient operations, potential fraud, waste, and abuse. In carrying out this role, you must demonstrate good business acumen and robust experience with assessing risk and conducting internal audits. You serve as a trusted partner to the business, continually staying abreast of enterprise-wide initiatives and functional strategies, to ultimately ensure that the Internal Audit portfolio of audits is aligned with key business risks.
Responsibilities
The position of Sr. Associate reports to the Head of Internal Audit. The key responsibility of this position is to support audit planning, execution, and reporting by leveraging data to perform robust analysis aimed at identifying trends, anomalies, and control weaknesses across the process/system/organization, with a focus on effectiveness, compliance and operational integrity.
1. Planning the audit
- Participate in audit scoping discussions with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Operations, IT) and Audit Leadership to understand relevant risk, controls, and associated data sources supporting audit areas
- Conduct research and reference available documentation to develop the risk and control matrix to inform the audit scope.
- Develop audit planning memos memorializing the audit scope, objective and approach
- Manage the collection, review, and storage of all supporting audit documentation within the audit system
2. Conducting the Audit
- Coordinate audit interviews and process walkthrough, including the agenda, leading the discussion, and memorializing the outcomes/notes
- Creates the initial audit testing workbook detailing the key risks and controls in the process and the subsequent testing plan (and testing attributes) required to provide reasonable assurance over the design and operating effectiveness of management's controls or insights needed for decisionmakers.
- Manages outreach to stakeholders to request relevant data / system reports, and or other to support detailed analysis of control effectiveness, including the collection and review for completeness.
- Perform audit testing, analyzing available datasets to identify patterns, outliers, and potential issues related to internal policies and business processes.
- Documents conclusions from testing, including a summary of the control effectiveness, and any identified instances of non-compliance / exceptions
- Communicates results of audit testing with the Audit Leadership and respective auditees to validate the accuracy of findings by confirming no additional data /documents exist that would explain any exceptions identified
- quality self-review for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to program and audit techniques employed
- Escalate any critical audit issues appropriate management
3. Reporting Results
- Communicate issues and root causes with Audit Leadership and management of the area under audit and gain consensus on the path forward
- Draft initial materials to socialize results with auditees and department leadership
4. Other
- Participate in enterprise risk assessment activities, and conduct other audit engagements, including advisory engagements
- Maintain existing certifications and seek further certification where appropriate
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor operational & other metrics and key risk indicators and support the development of continuous auditing and monitoring tools to proactively detect non-compliance.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required
- One or more of: CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, or Certified Fraud Examiner designation preferred
Relevant Experience:
- 3-5 years in internal audit, Compliance, advisory or global corporation, or a combination hereof.
- Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Life Science experience preferred.
- A strong candidate will be our “go to person” to solve problems, and get work done. Attention to quality and details, data-driven, critical thinking, and good analytical skills are essential to this role.
Essential Skills:
- Fluent & self-starter in the use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Highly self-motivated and able to work independently
- Proactively seeks knowledge, new tasks, and responsibilities.
- Ability to organize projects and work responsibilities.
- Prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines
- Proficiency in data analytics and visualization platforms (e.g., Databricks, Power BI).
- Experience working with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and audit management tools.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work with ambiguity, and respond to a rapidly changing, highly innovative environment
- Exhibit professional savvy and ability to interact with various levels of management
- Excellent in developing high quality presentations, Excel formulas and data analytics
Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 3-5 years of experience in internal audit, compliance, advisory, or a global corporation
- Proficiency in data analytics and visualization platforms such as Databricks and Power BI
- Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP and audit management tools
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel formulas and data analytics
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication, organizational, and project-management skills
- Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, meet deadlines, and operate in ambiguity
- Fluent, self-directed use of AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT
- CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, or Certified Fraud Examiner designation
- Biotech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences experience
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 1997, BioMarin is a global biotechnology company dedicated to transforming lives through genetic discovery. The company develops and commercializes targeted therapies that address the root cause of the genetic conditions that it seeks to treat, helping to better the lives of those struggling with rare genetic disease. BioMarin discoveries have led to eight first or best-in-class commercial treatments and a pipeline of multiple product candidates applying the same science-driven, patient-forward approach to broader group of genetic disorders. The more innovative solutions developed, the more lives BioMarin can impact. Recruitment Fraud Alert Notice Please be aware of fraud or scams from individuals, organizations and/or internet sites claiming to represent BioMarin in recruitment activities. We have an established recruitment process which is required for all posted positions by BioMarin prior to issuing an offer of employment. This BioMarin process requires formal interviews conducted live with personnel representing BioMarin and never requires payments or fees from job applicants. BioMarin does not conduct interviews via texting tools such as RingCentral. In the event you receive a suspicious email message about recruiting on behalf of BioMarin, unless it’s from a BioMarin authorized recruiting partner, do not provide any personal information or pay any fees. Qualified and interested candidates should apply to current openings directly through this BioMarin website. BioMarin accepts no responsibility for any costs or charges incurred as a result of fraudulent activity. If you have lost money or provided your personal identifying information, please contact your bank and report the matter to the FBI via www.ic3.gov. We would also suggest you notify your local police department and monitor your credit. We appreciate your interest in BioMarin & encourage you to visit http://careers.biomarin.com/career-areas to review job opportunities.
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