IM Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend)

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.

Preferred Skills:

Budget Management, Coaching, Execution Focus, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Trends, Internal Controls, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Training People, Vendor Management

Hybrid work