Job description
The Role
We're hiring a Compliance Project Manager to join our IT Internal Controls Team to support the delivery of our growing portfolio of regulatory controls and compliance projects, focused primarily on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx). As an IT Compliance Project Manager, you will not only be empowered to lead various regulatory and compliance projects but work with internal and external stakeholders to create security controls, take part in building our compliance strategy and work with senior leadership.
You will play a key role in the continuing development of the internal control framework and the delivery of a successful SOx project, partnering with the Group's business units and internal and external audit teams.
We are a globally distributed team. You may be required to travel for up to 20% of your time.
Here's what you'll be doing:
- Play a critical role in the development and implementation of our SOx controls program.
- Managing the entire life cycle of complex IT controls projects, developing, and driving a project plan in partnership with internal and external partners, and ensuring planned results are achieved on time and budget
- Collaborate with IT partners to review SOx documentation (risk control matrices, narratives, flowcharts) and identify areas where control enhancements and/or documentation improvements are required
- Act as a key liaison between external auditors and internal stakeholders, planning, scoping, and coordinating program tasks and implementing necessary controls.
- Ensuring delivery of solutions and services meet requirements and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan
- Consolidating data needed for department metrics tracking and reporting
- Coordinate testing approach and align expectations with external auditors to ensure documentation and testing complies with industry standards and allows for reliance by the external auditors
- Leverage knowledge of SOx methodology and industry requirements to ensure thorough evidence documentation is maintained
- Apply SOx planning and execution knowledge to support the risk assessment and scoping process
- Provide senior management across our core functions with reporting and insight to ensure decision making is efficient, effective, and made with a 'Risk-based mindset'
- Ensure the control environment is understood, remains robust, and within risk appetite at all times
- Monitoring and follow-up and implementation of agreed actions and tracking of progress throughout the year
- Participation in group wide project teams with a view to continuous improvement of internal control by providing input to various ad hoc projects being undertaken across all business and IT streams at all levels throughout the Group, throughout the project timeline and stages including pre-SOx readiness assessment preparations
- Undertake specific projects for continuous improvement of the Group's control environment and for future-proofing activities (e.g., opportunities for automation, alignment of existing controls in different BUs, improvement of existing processes and controls) and the management of communication and roll-out of any of these initiatives across the Group, undertaking workshops or providing additional support where necessary
- Acting as a single point of contact for project status. Maintain communication with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Building and maintaining an integrated portfolio view of all SOx / controls projects, activities, and dependencies
- Identifying projects issues, gaps, conflicts, and propose solutions
- Tracking critical project deliverables with the core team and facilitate solutions when issues arise
- Managing the project scope, resources, and budget as necessary to meet related obligations of the project
What do you bring to the role?
- Attention to detail and possess strong project and program management skills.
- In depth knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) legislation and the implementation of regulatory controls
- Experience with other industry security frameworks such as ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and/or SOC2 would be a distinct advantage
- Demonstrable experience of execution and documentation of IT controls relating to SOx
- The ability to guide IT and business stakeholders in the delivery of a SOx compliant environment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication, organisational, and time management skills.
- Strong IT background – regulatory controls specifically
- Strong conceptual, analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting and resolution skills
- Comfortable engaging with and presenting to senior executives
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to develop relationships throughout a Global business and with multiple external partners
- Ability and confidence to challenge the status quo and to influence senior stakeholders
- Ability to meet deadlines and to manage multiple flows of information in order to meet them
- Ability to manage multiple projects, activities, and responsibilities at the same time
Who are Inizio?
Uniting the expertise and capabilities of Ashfield and Huntsworth Health, Inizio was launched to become THE strategic partner for health and life sciences companies. Unparalleled in scale and expertise, we connect a full suite of Advisory, Medical, Marketing/Communications, Patient and Stakeholder Engagement, and Biotech services to reimagine clients' business challenges into opportunities.
We are a team of 10,000 experts working together in 35 countries to create something extraordinary. We exist to solve health challenges and develop transformational ideas that positively impact human lives. Working at Inizio offers an opportunity to work for a game-changing company built with one goal. That is to redefine health and life sciences by empowering our people to inspire new possibilities that advance health and build brighter futures.
Our Pledge
At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.
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