IM Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend)

Leiden Bio Science Park; Leiden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovative Medicine Transcend is hiring a Finance Compliance Manager to lead a global transformation aligning finance processes on a single SAP S/4HANA platform. You’ll be embedded in the program, shaping risk controls and ensuring SOX, GAAP and IFRS compliance across design, build, test and deployment stages.

You will partner with leadership, PMO and deployment leads to embed controls, drive risk mitigation, and maintain audit readiness throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Expertise in financial and IT internal controls, SOX 404, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Experience leading compliance and risk management within a large-scale ERP transformation.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA transformation in complex multi-ERP environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end IM Transcend compliance strategy and roadmap.
• Embed compliance into governance, decisions and milestones.
• Lead de-risking across processes, data, tech and deployments.
• Define risk appetite, escalation paths, and stage-gate criteria.
• Coordinate SOX and finance testing with evidence and remediation.
• Engage with Internal/External assurance and auditors.

Skills

Financial controls

SOX 404

US GAAP

IFRS

Risk management

Stakeholder management

S/4HANA transformation

PowerBI

PowerQuery

Education

Bachelor’s in Finance/Accounting

Tools

PowerBI

PowerQuery

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

THE OPPORTUNITY

Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational Supply chain processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform (S4 Hana) for growth and efficiency gains.

How YOU can help:

The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have:

TheFinance Compliance Manageris fully embedded in the IM Transcend program and serves as the integrated compliance and risk partner across the end-to-end transformation lifecycle. The role safeguards successful program delivery by establishing and executing a holistic, risk-based compliance strategy across design, build, test, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state. It proactively identifies, assesses, monitors and mitigates financial, business process, technology and cross-program compliance risks; drives the program de-risking approach through stage gates, milestone reviews and transparent escalation; and provides leadership with clear risk insight to support informed go/no-go decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute the end-to-end IM Transcend compliance strategy, framework, roadmap and integrated plan across design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state.
• Operate as a fully embedded member of the program, partnering with Program Leadership, PMO, value streams, functional teams and deployment leads to embed compliance requirements into program governance, decisions, plans and delivery milestones.
• Lead the program de-risking approach by proactively identifying, assessing, prioritizing and monitoring end-to-end compliance risks, dependencies and control impacts across processes, data, technology, interfaces and deployments.
• Define and govern risk appetite, mitigation actions, ownership, escalation paths and stage-gate criteria; provide timely risk insight and recommendations to support leadership go/no-go and release-readiness decisions.
• Establish and maintain the integrated compliance package and traceability across the process taxonomy, risks, controls, reports, interfaces, requirements, test evidence and run-state documentation.
• Drive a risk-based SOX and finance compliance testing strategy, ensuring control requirements are designed into test scenarios, execution evidence is complete and deficiencies are remediated before release.
• Lead engagement with Global Audit & Assurance and external auditors, coordinating scope, milestone-based reviews, walkthroughs, evidence and remediation to sustain audit readiness throughout the program lifecycle.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting to senior leadership on risk exposure, mitigation status, compliance milestones, audit observations, emerging issues and recommended actions.
• Coordinate ICFR, ISRM, UAM, Technology Quality, GxP and other compliance workstreams so that requirements are integrated consistently and gaps, overlaps and cross-program dependencies are actively managed. Drive standardization, control optimization and automation opportunities, and ensure compliance capabilities, ownership and documentation transition effectively to deployment and run-state teams.

IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

We would love to hear from YOU, if you have/are:

Expertise

• Expertise infinancial and IT internal controls, SOX 404, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Demonstratedexperience leading compliance and risk managementwithin a large-scale, global business or ERP transformation.
• Experience incomplex multi-ERP environments;SAP S/4HANA transformation experience preferred.
• Knowledge of digital tools (PowerQuery, PowerBI, …) is a plus.
• Ability to translate end-to-end process, data, technology and deployment changes into clear risk, control and mitigation requirements.
• Ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment is required.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior leadership and internal and external assurance functions.
• Understanding of continuous process improvement techniques
• Anticipate needs, assess and manage business risk taking; escalate issues that may impact their process globally; manage through times of crisis and ambiguity.

Preferred Skills

• Budget Management, Coaching, Execution Focus, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Trends, Internal Controls, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Training People, Vendor Management