Internal Controls & Compliance Specialist Lisboa

Internal Controls & Compliance Specialist
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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
  - assessments
• Supporting internal and external audits (So
  X and Substantive Testing)
• Updating controls in the Organon global control repository (Audit
  Board) 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 So
  X controls
• Collect, ensure, and deliver data required from external and internal auditors (Pw
  C / CAAS) for the markets in scope
• Maintain permanent contact with global groups as CAAS, Pw
  C and Governance & Compliance in order to generate synergies and implement best practices in GDO activities
• Perform periodic Control Self-Assessment to all So
  X controls under GDO activities according to defined testing attributes
• Identify any
  - 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, Pw
  C and GDO
• Experience in definition and design of risk matrix and definition of control criteria for different processes
• Experience with So
  X testing and Substantive testing
• Experience working in a Big 4 or similar audit environment strongly preferred