Senior Manager - International Financial Controls & Compliance

Your responsibilities

The successful candidate will have public accounting and/or public company experience and familiarity with the components of effective SOX compliance programs. Experience in the biotechnology industry and/or scaling up Commercial operations would be a significant plus. The successful candidate will also have a proven ability to drive and manage change ideally in an increasing complex global business with multiple evolving financial and business processes.

We work collaboratively as a team, we boldly strive for excellence, we are constantly curious, and we are relentless in our pursuit of the balance between efficiency, effectiveness, and controls and compliance. We are committed to ongoing process improvements and to providing accurate, timely and insightful financial information to our senior management and internal stakeholders.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

On Operational Excellence:

- Develop and implement:

o Plan and execute SOX risk assessments to support internal and external SOX and global compliance process and annual audit plans

o Manage implementing financial controls framework across different countries and regions including Segregation of Duties

o Assist with creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across all functions including adequate internal financial controls

o Identify and assign control owners and actively monitor and ensure timely completion of financial controls

o Create a high level of awareness on financial controls and compliance and adequately train team on financial controls

o Maintain and improve financial control KPIs dashboard and regularly report to management

- Execute & remediate:

o Support timely coordination with consultants and external auditors on SOX 404 and statutory audits and ensure SOX information is updated and easily accessible through our Audit Board audit management tool by the consultants and external audit teams.

o Implement remediation plans where required, discuss with management and follow-up on completion

o Support control owners to identify root causes of control deficiencies

o Prepare and support for internal and external audits

o Manage/perform various annual and quarterly SOX audit procedures across operations

- Continuous improvement:

o Understand business processes; review process documentation and have a good understanding of key risks and mitigating controls

o As process expert, support improvement of internal processes

o Establish a financial compliance culture

o Collaborate with digital to automate internal controls

o Improve the implementation of our central SOX compliance solution AuditBoard, to further centralize all SOX related documentation, include additional use cases and provide training to business process owners to increase ownership of SOX processes and allow management to independently monitor compliance efforts

On People and Stakeholder Management:

- Partner with the functional business areas to analyze and determine the impact to internal controls as we implement new accounting standards, new systems applications or process improvements

- Strong project and change management skills enabling cross-functional teams at different locations to deliver best possible results

- Strong collaboration with International’s Financial Controls and Compliance team and key MESH functions and services

Our requirements

What we offer

The Role:

Come help Moderna scale! This is an exciting new role and opportunity to be a key member of the International Finance team supporting a dynamic and high growth organization that is radically changing the biotechnology industry.

Reporting to the

Associate Director, International Financial Controls & Compliance, the role of a Senior Manager International Financial Controls & Compliance,

does play a key role in the implementation of Moderna International’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program and its control framework. In collaboration and as part of the wider Global Financial Controls team, this role will partner closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, Accounting, FP&A, Digital, Legal, and HR to help ensure that the company remains in compliance with its SOX regulations and that Business Process and Digital internal controls are designed and operating effectively.