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The Financial Internal Control & Compliance Specialist at the Global Services Center in Lisbon will work with a team of about 5 to 10 Internal Controls colleagues and will be responsible for the delivery and assurance of all controls for the Finance workstreams of Account to Report AtR, Order to Cash OtC, Procure to Pay PtP and Master Data MDM for Organon Global Shared Services.

Purpose of the role

The Specialist will be a key contributor in standing up Controls in the Center. They will help to build a strong governance and relationships and establish stable, effective, standardized​​​ and controlled Process delivery to our GSS clients. Concurrently, Organon is implementing its Global ERP SAP S/4 Hana platform and the GSS Service Center Internal Controls & Compliance team will assume a core role in supporting this implementation.

The role activities included but are not limited to:

• Maintaining controls and controls narratives
• Designing control risk matrices
• Performing complex analyzes and control activities
• Providing trainings related to controls
• Executing quarterly full process self-assessments
• Supporting internal and external audits
• Maintaining systems access controls
• Performing Balance sheet review
• Supporting Ad hoc request related to contents for auditors
• Preparation of the Financial Control Questionnaire (FCQ)
• Updating controls in the Organon global control repository (ARCHER) based on process improvements and standardizations

• Prepare, define, 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 markets: provide key information and guidelines, to maintain permanent contact with the markets with the purpose of being a strategic partner in the implementation, improvement, and execution of the local control
• Collect, ensure, and deliver data required from external and internal auditors, Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) / Organon Internal Audit (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 RDC and markets under scope
• Prepare and share the samples for every applicable ARCHER control and country, based on system transactions
• Help to give constant follow up and support to the Operational team that will perform their self-assessments.
• Gather all the sample’s evidence to perform the compliance of all applicable ARCHER controls tested in the period
• Identify any non-compliance that present any risk to the results of the operation and prepare remediation plans
• Help to prepare a written report describing: (1) the self-assessments results and (2) the compliance findings for
• Center Leaders presentation and approval
• Update all reporting dashboards (by Vertical, by Country, by region, by trend, accumulated and by tested period), including the visual dashboards at the site.
• Support ARCHER matrix update.
• Prepare and follow up over the FCQ. (Financial Control Questionnaire)
• Coordinate data extraction for proper assurance for system access
• Make testing randomly for systems access
• Ensure awareness over control across the Shared Services Center
• Reinforce the knowledge to improve the control and strengthen quality.
• Maintain updated the self-assessment templates to maintain alignment with new practices or changes.
• Stay abreast and communicate any potential change considered within corporate policies and procedures
• Support Ad-Hoc Requirements and perform periodic audit reviews.
• Strategic Finance Project Management – Support systems implementations, process improvement and new initiatives to make sure comply with the Corporate Internal Controls
• Being the liaison between the local markets, Internal Audit team, PWC with the BSC

• Bachelor’s / Technical degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Audit or Finance
• At least 3 year of audit experience is required, 1-2 of those years in a public accounting practice company
• Experience working with financial processes
• Business-level English (90 – 100%) and other languages valued
• Experience working on quality control, process engineering, Internal control structure, COSO, SOX 404 environment
• Experience in definition and design of risk matrix and definition of control criteria for different process.
• Experience with US GAAP desired
• Experience with non-US GAAP environments
• Experience with balance sheet reconciliations
• Experience working with multicultural environment providing services across multiple markets or geographies
• Experience working in a Big 4 (PWC, E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte) or similar audit environment strongly preferred

Required Abilities

• Ability to work independently and with a team in a fast-paced and high-volume environment with emphasis on accuracy and timeliness
• Strong communication, interpersonal and organization skills required
• High capacity to take decisions and work with priorities
• SAP or JDE Experience desired
• Intermediate to Advanced PC skills (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint) required
• Demonstrated commitment
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Problem solving and analytical skills with a proactive management style to implement new processes