Senior Independent Control Assessor
Sandoz India Pvt Ltd
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Madhavaram, Telangana
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Job Description
Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Generic and Biosimilar medicines.
Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.
Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!
As a Senior Control Assessor, you will perform and oversee Control Maturity Assessments (CMA), identifying control gaps and risks across the technology organization ensuring the technology application team assessed periodically and prepared for inspections, internal and external audits.
Your primary responsibility will be to oversee, define and coordinate all CMA related activities across the technology organization, working closely with technology stakeholders to maintain compliance and improve audit responses. Additionally, you will be responsible for creating CMA awareness by conducting regularly conducting training sessions to educate associates and key stakeholders on CMA engagement process, IMF controls assessment, best practices, and regulatory requirements across Sandoz’s application landscape.
Support Sandoz technology team to meet the organization’s needs for:
Control Maturity Assessments
• Efficiently and effectively operate the CMA as a Service for Technology function
• Prepare technology annual CMA plans and execute against the defined plan and performed according to defined service levels
• Take accountability to ensure adherence with Security and Compliance policies and procedures within ISRM & IT Compliance Assessors scope
• Conduct comprehensive CMA assessments of IMF controls (both project and operational) across the technology organization
• Overall support the delivery of the IT Compliance Services by collaborating with application teams within technology workstream, ISRM partners, PQM/OQMs and Domain Quality Managers (DQM)
• Identify control gaps, weaknesses, potential risks and areas for improvement as part of CMA assessments and recommend risk mitigation strategies
• Clearly articulated gaps and potential risks emerging for the assessment
Post Assessment Tracking & Support
• Work closely with technology stakeholder teams (i.e Application Manager, PQM/OQM etc.) to develop action plans for gap/issue remediation with clear timelines
• Oversee remediation as per agreed plan. Report periodically in case of actions not being taken by stakeholders to audit readiness lead
• Provide guidance and clarify queries for internal technology stakeholders regarding CMA assessment process, ways of working etc
• Review remediation evidence and ensure they are fulfilling with IMF, organizational controls and regulatory requirements
Compliance And Risk Management
• Ensure technology systems and processes comply ISRM process, procedures and IMF controls, regulations, and industry standards.
• Evaluate the maturity levels of each technology domains based on assessment performed and proactively raise risks with risk manager and audit lead
• Contribute and review CMA procedures and provide feedback/suggestions to improve
CMA, Training & Reporting
• Create, maintain and deliver engaging training programs, materials, and online resources for reference and self-paced learning focusing on CMA (both project and operations) assessments as part of audit readiness, best practices and procedures
• Report on ongoing technology assessment status, remediation status, risks foreseen on monthly basis
• Conduct quarterly CMA assessment analysis and report against the organizational controls where we have gaps/issues and suggest remediations
• Identify potential technology risks based on the CMA assessment analysis which have impact on organizational controls and discuss with the audit lead for further actions
• Ensure all the assessment reports are uploaded and maintained within the CMA tool/repository
• Escalate any compliance deviations or major quality issues to Audit Readiness Lead, as required
Education
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, finance or a related field. A master's degree or professional certifications (such as CPA, CIA, CISA) are preferred.
Languages
• Fluent in written and spoken English, German is a bonus
Experience And Skills
• Big 4 IT audit/assessment 4-6 experience or 8-10 years of experience working on IT control testing / Internal audit and IT compliance functions in major corporate organizations
• Testing experience with industry standards like ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2, ITGC Controls, SOX, GxP etc.
• Candidates should have strong audit / security assessment hands-on experience and risk management functions
• Working understanding of automation tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Team player with the ability to engage effectively with associates, external partners, and other stakeholders
• Knowledge of GxP and SOX in Pharma Industry is essential.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!
The future is ours to shape!
Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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