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Title: Associate Director, Financial Controls & Compliance
Location: East Hanover, NJ
Job Description:
The Associate Director, Financial Controls & Compliance - plan, execute, and deliver high quality compliance, controls testing, risk advisory that meet client methodology standards, strategies and directives. This will be done with the focus and in a context of a changing US controls landscape due to the Digital transformation Program implementation. This position will also lead and collaborate with local FC&C team in activities including project management, assessment of business/information technology risks and evaluation of related internal controls and change management.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Lead US Financial Compliance adoption of Digital transformation, providing technical support and feedback. Rate potential and capacity of team members and provide feedback to FC&C management.
• Close collaboration with US Digital transformation program and all key stakeholders from FRA, Project team, Group functions, GPOs, KPMG as well as local FC&C team.
• Apply effective project management to various assignments to deliver work which meets quality standards, deadlines and the expectations of stakeholders.
• Be responsible for driving successful Digital transformation implementation across all US units, with a minimal adverse impact on the SOX404 control environment.
• Proactively identify and implement transition project measures to ensure a smooth Digital transformation controls implementation – closely work with both FC&C team as well as US control Owner community.
• Leverage automations, bots, AI to elevate controls environment management to a continuous and efficient process.
• Identify root causes of control issues and investigate, analyze and test possible solutions or measures for improvement. Prepare memos and reviews and agree issues with responsible management.
• Build effective business partnering and advisory relationships with external auditors as well as Group stakeholders (GPO, GFC&C, Internal Audit etc.)
• Identify, lead, influence projects and lead initiatives to improve the technical and operational effectiveness of the FC&C function for both pre and post Digital transformation go live environments.
This position is based in East Hanover, NJ office. This role will not have the ability to be located remotely.
What you’ll bring to the role:
• Bachelor’s degree or Equivalent 4-year degree required; degree subject area in Finance or Accounting preferred
• Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business a plus
• CA/CPA/CIA certification preferred
• 10 years of accounting, compliance, audit experience required, with 4 years of Financial Controls & Compliance experience
• Proven strong Project management experience – S4Hana deployment experience is a plus
• Multi-national and/or multi-dimensional organization experience preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to influence / motivate others under different geographies / cultural and hierarchy setting
• IT audit experience and acumen is a plus
• Pharmaceutical industry/manufacturing experience preferred
• SAP or Shared services experience a plus
