This role provides risk management support to the Leadership Team at a Regional Finance Hubs covering Finance Global processes as well as regional specific risks for the markets that the finance hub is managing.
In particular, the risk manager role will ensure:
1. Risk management support to the hub and its leadership team to ensure risk mitigation, root cause analysis and related mitigations, overall process and control deficiencies remediation, and reporting on overall status of control environment for all markets in a given region and / or assigned global process, etc
2. Risk management support to global or regional process improvements in order to reduce risks as well as support to relevant operating effectiveness programs such as continuous improvement initiatives, process operating issues mitigation and remediation programs and stakeholder support and reporting for that
The role helps ensure that risks are appropriately mitigated with a sound control framework, to provide adequate oversight of risks and controls within a given region markets and processes on a global basis. Accountable for assessing process risks and control framework and provide proactive risk assessments and drive risk mitigation initiatives over different business processes to ensure control soundness. The Risk Manager is also responsible for partnering with the process organizations in the region to ensure identified solutions mitigate the risk, and to implement key control initiatives associated with corporate policies. The focus in the role is to build a culture of proactive risk assessment and business partnering to strengthen the control framework to effectively and efficiently mitigate risk.
Key Responsibilities
1. Risk Management and Controls:
Leading risk management and controls for global processes and overseeing finance risk management and control activities for the region and entities supported by the Hub.
Reviewing the outcome of Controls Testing activities provided by a third party and reporting on entity controls effectiveness to senior stakeholders.
Reviewing and reporting on process risk assessments to senior management.
2. Operational Support
Providing risk management assessments (including root cause analyses) of significant operational issues and supporting remediation for those.
Managing hub/regional process and controls improvement programs to reduce risk or improve effectiveness and efficiency by leveraging leading technology such as robotics, AI, and other digital tools.
Ensuring adequate oversight of third-party (Genpact) global processes and regional locations as part of monitoring and testing plans.
3. Risk Assessment and Planning:
Performing annual risk assessments of the Finance operations and relevant processes within the region and entities in scope.
Developing an Annual Risk Plan that covers both controls effectiveness plans as well as risk-based ad hoc process risk assessments and reviews.
4. Stakeholder Engagement
Keeping local market Finance Directors and hub/Tower Leads appraised of risks and control issues.
Ensuring stakeholders understand and commit to resolving risk and control issues across relevant processes.
Supporting and engaging with external auditors and other parties to reduce impact to business, increase audit reliance, and align on auditor’s assessment of the finance control environment for SOX reporting purposes.
Enterprise Risk Management:
Providing risk management support for Enterprise Risk Management for the entities and Finance operations in the region.
Driving compliance of enterprise risks and risk mitigation initiatives at the hub and/or local entity level.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Masters degree level & further education with a Professional Accounting / Auditing qualification.
Minimum of 10 years Post qualification experience (Malaysia) in internal or external audit, or SOX compliance programmes.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Preferred Education: CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIA, etc
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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