Controls & Compliance Specialist

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

When you are part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do challenging work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world!
Position Summary:
The objective of this role is to support the implementation and embedment of internal controls practices specifically for financial processes within the relevant Shared Services Centres, to ensure a robust control environment is established and sustained there.
This role will work closely with Internal/External Auditors, the local finance workstream leads and other stakeholders in support of the company’s internal controls and execution of programs such as SOX, Privacy, BCP and Cybersecurity.
The role will be a member of the Global Controls & Compliance team and will have responsibilities in
accordance with this.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• College/University degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
• At least 3 years of financial audit/internal controls/shared service process experience
• Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work; detail oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Good analytical, computer (Word and Excel), and organization skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines; the ability to work well with all levels of management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong problem-solving skills
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• Support the finance workstream in identifying and documenting processes and procedures surrounding internal controls.
• Support the implementation of the company’s compliance program in the relevant Shared Service Centres, while ensuring compliance with regulatory rules and deadlines (BCP, Cyber Sec, Data Privacy etc).
• Support the External and Internal audits impacting the Shared Service Centres to ensure smooth delivery of audit requests. Also act as a facilitator btw auditors and finance workstream as needed. Ensure that any audit findings are remediated in a timely and quality manner.
• Monitor the implementation of activities related to projects (automation, system-upgrades etc) and ensure control implications are properly taken into account.
• Deliver monthly spot checking of control operation for the relevant finance workstream. Report to leadership any control gaps identified, and support remediation of them to avoid subsequent audit findings.
• Ensure that adequate awareness raising/training programs are in place to increase risk and control understanding in operations teams.
• Identify areas of opportunity for process improvement.
• Perform quality review on finance process documentations
• Act as a compliance point of contact for the finance workstream within the relevant Shared Service Centers.