IM IT Compliance Senior Manager

About This Role

This senior manager role defines and drives the end-to-end IT and compliance strategy for the company's Innovative Medicine Transcend program, a multi-year SAP S/4HANA transformation across the supply chain. The position ensures a cohesive and integrated compliance approach across various control frameworks, managing risk from solution design through deployment and audit. It suits a strategic IT compliance professional who can partner with program leadership and guide compliance execution across multiple releases.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall IT and compliance strategy for the IM TRANSCEND program, ensuring alignment with program ICFR, SOX, and ITGC frameworks
• Establish an integrated, end-to-end risk and control model that aligns ITGC, application controls with ICFR requirements
• Provide senior-level IT compliance leadership across all IM TRANSCEND releases, ensuring consistency of approach across geographies, waves, and solution components
• Act as a strategic compliance advisor to program leadership, IT and JJT stakeholders, participating in pre-design, solution, and architecture discussions to shape compliant outcomes
• Ensure effective coordination and alignment with ISRM, User Access Management, and IT Security teams on access governance, segregation of duties, and identity-related risks
• Oversee and guide the design principles for SAP configurations, interfaces, WRICEF objects, workflows, and system-enabled controls from an IT compliance perspective
• Ensure that ITGC and ICFR risks are assessed holistically, with clear ownership, traceability, and mitigation across integrated business processes and technologies
• Provide direction and oversight to program IT compliance managers and resources, ensuring effective execution of risk assessments, control design, testing strategies, and remediation activities
• Partner closely with the Senior Manager / leadership responsible for ICFR compliance to ensure a cohesive and non-duplicative compliance approach across the program
• Define expectations for UAT, IT SOX testing, and control validation strategies at the program level, ensuring alignment with audit and regulatory expectations
• Serve as the senior point of escalation and engagement for Internal and External Audit on ITGC, technology, and IT compliance topics for IM TRANSCEND
• Monitor program-level compliance risks, trends, and dependencies, proactively identifying systemic issues and driving resolution to protect program outcomes and audit readiness

Requirements

• University degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance Computer Science or related fields
• Previous experience in IT Compliance roles within a significant SAP implementation is highly recommended
• 8-10+ years’ experience
• Proven experience defining IT compliance strategy for complex multi-release ERP transformation programs