Job Description
The Position
The Internal Control & Compliance Specialist at the Lisbon site will work with a team of 6 colleagues and will be responsible for the delivery and assurance of all controls for the Finance workstreams of Account to Report (A2R), Order to Cash (O2C), Source to Settle (S2S) and Master Data Management (MDM) for Organon Global Delivery Operations (GDO). The roles activities include but are not limited to:
Maintaining controls and controls narratives
Performing complex analyzes to control activities
Providing trainings related to controls
Executing twice a year full process self-assessments
Supporting internal and external audits (SoX and Substantive Testing)
Updating controls in the Organon global control repository (AuditBoard) based on process improvements and standardization
Responsibilities
Collaborate with Governance & Compliance team on the Preparation, definition, and design risk matrix, elaboration of different controls criteria for operational activities
Analyze the information and evidence and be able to provide improvements for different process and activities
Promote a more active role as an advisor or consultant in the improvement of processes and controls for GDO: provide key information and guidelines, maintain permanent contact with the GDO Operations team with the purpose of being a strategic partner in the implementation, improvement, and execution of the GDO SoX controls
Collect, ensure, and deliver data required from external and internal auditors (PwC / CAAS) for the markets in scope
Maintain permanent contact with global groups as CAAS, PwC and Governance & Compliance in order to generate synergies and implement best practices in GDO activities
Perform periodic Control Self-Assessment to all SoX controls under GDO activities according to defined testing attributes
Identify any non-compliance that present any risk to the results of the operation and collaborate with Operational team to prepare remediation plans
Support Auditboard controls update
Ensure awareness over control across the GDO
Stay abreast and communicate any potential change considered within corporate policies and procedures
Strategic Finance Project Management – Support systems implementations, process improvement and new initiatives to make sure comply with the Corporate Internal Controls
Required education, experience and skills
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or other related to Finance.
At least 2 years of work experience in Shared Services Center environments
Being the liaison between the local markets, CAAS, PwC and GDO
Experience in definition and design of risk matrix and definition of control criteria for different processes
Experience with SoX testing and Substantive testing
Experience working in a Big 4 or similar audit environment strongly preferred
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