Director, Financial Processes & Control (Hybrid - Upper Gwynedd, PA)
About the role
The US Finance Compliance Lead reports directly to the US Finance Lead and is a dotted-line report to the Human Health US Compliance Lead. The Finance Compliance Lead is responsible for leading a team of 2 Associate Directors to provide best-in-class compliance support to the US Market Finance team, providing oversight of policies, processes, audit/monitoring management, training, certifications, quarterly controls, risk assessments, third party audits, and remediation activities.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that all aspects of the US Market Finance Compliance Plan are met without exception
- Facilitate the annual SOX audit of US Finance by internal and external auditors
- Coordinate annual reviews and training on internal controls, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and government pricing policies.
- Prepare quarterly State of Compliance reports and hold compliance reviews with US Market Finance and Compliance senior leaders.
- Manage quarterly control process for US Market Finance to ensure that any significant matters are identified and evaluated timely.
- Provide subject matter expertise and Compliance perspective on commercial initiatives through active participation on various cross-functional teams.
- Advise teams with the implementation of new projects/systems/processes to ensure overall financial integrity of data as well as compliance with SOX and other financial requirements.
- Identify, investigate, and implement future preventative actions for any items requiring remediation.
- Communicate the importance of compliance throughout the organization.
Requirements
Required Education: BS/BA degree required, preferably in Accounting or Finance.
Required Experience: 10 years of business experience, preferably pharmaceutical/healthcare-related.
Qualifications
- Masters of Business Administration degree
- Excellent project management, problem solving, and oral and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and lead across functions
- Prior management / team leadership experience with proven results
Skills
- Ability to Coordinate
- Ability to Coordinate
- Annual Report
- Audit Processes
- Business Decision Support
- Business Management
- Cash Management
- Change Management
- Compliance Activities
- Compliance Monitoring
- Compliance Reporting
- Corrective Action Management
- Customer-Focused
- Exercises Judgment
- External Audit
- Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Business Planning
- Financial Compliance
- Financial Controlling
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Oversight
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Financial Tracking
- Leadership Reporting
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.
Pay
The salary range for this role is $156,900.00 - $247,000.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be