Job Description:

Finance Compliance Transformation Manager

Possible locations: Beerse, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Cork, Ireland, Zug, Switzerland

Contract: full-time, permanent

Role overview:

As part of the Innovative Medicine Risk & Advisory team, your mission will be to apply your risk & compliance expertise to support the organization in its portfolio of key projects and transformations initiatives.

Acting as a strategic business partner, you will act as the centre of excellence for all internal controls and risk inquiries, provide guidance and support your organization in establishing best in class harmonized processes. You will lead critical compliance-related initiatives and ensure new processes are fully integrated in the Innovative Medicine Principal Operations organization.

The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have are within:

Transformation support:

• Provide expert guidance to the finance team during digital and process transformation initiatives
• Proactively identifies operational and financial Risks + proposes adequate and efficient Controls to mitigate gaps.
• Recommends actions to improve accounting and operational procedures and internal controls.
• Develops and efficiently implements frameworks for monitoring and reporting on the progress and effectiveness of transformation effectiveness

Project Leadership:

• Take the lead on critical compliance projects, from planning through to execution and evaluation
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and communication to ensure alignment and support for compliance projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project goals are met and well-integrated in the organization planning.
• Ensure all financial transformation initiatives and projects comply with applicable laws and regulations and industry standards
• Ensure full alignment with management & create strong business partnerships between all stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and compliance awareness across the finance organization

IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU - What you need to succeed:

Qualifications:

• Existing or willing to obtain recognized accounting qualification such as CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or CIA (Corporate Internal Audit),
• Obtained min. bachelor’s degree in finance area.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years post graduate experience, of which 2 years as a compliance/ internal control lead.
• Expertise with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.
• Experience of accessing internal controls and communicating findings to a range of stakeholders.
• Transformation and project related assignments ideally from a compliance standpoint

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Strong teamwork attributes in a virtual/remote working environment
• Proactively: ability to look and perform "outside the box”
• Process oriented, strong analytical skills
• "Can do” attitude: ability to manage complex and ambiguous situations
• Able to demonstrate values consistent with J&J Credo evidenced this through past experience.