Senior Manager Assurance and Governance

Senior Manager Assurance and Governance

Mumbai or Vadodara, India (hybrid role: 3 days office, 2 days home per week)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

If you are a detail-oriented assurance and governance professional, with experience operating within regulated industries and a strong understanding of risk management, internal controls and governance frameworks, then we want to hear from you.

Join us to help improve peoples lives and make healthcare better for everyone!

Why Pharmanovia

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 160 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Our core behaviours are:

• We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.
• We keep our promises and do as we say.
• We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We reinvest in our future in our products, our brands and our people.
• We give back to our communities.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Germany, U.A.E., India, Australia and Singapore.

We are an agile, committed, and innovative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia's therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

About the role:

The Assurance and Governance Senior Manager will have responsibility for day-to-day assurance activities managed by the Compliance function including, but not limited to, the financial and data protection controls operated across the business.

You will execute testing and gather various supporting documentation to assess the organisational controls operated by the business functional teams and embedded into the supporting systems.

You will also assist the AVP ESG & Compliance to manage the organisational financial authorities and master data required to ensure accurate financial reporting and analysis, and any findings or gaps identified as part of the Annual Internal Audit and Assurance Programme.

This role reports directly into the AVP ESG & Compliance. Key skills required are a sound understanding of compliance, risk and controls and project management. The ideal candidate will be highly organised, have strong attention to detail, be proactive in nature, and be a confident communicator, both within the business and with external partners.

Main responsibilities & duties:

• Governance, Risk and Control of the SAP ERP environment, including:
• Grant of Authority Matrix implementation of delegation changes within the respective modules, management of the PNV starters / leavers / movers process, management over-ride in exceptional circumstances.
• Chart of Accounts and Master Data Management population of new GL / CC/ PC accounts, cascade of information to relevant business users, management of acceptable posting relationships and cost centre / profit centre ownership.
• Operation of SAP GRC module ongoing analysis of automated access control features within the PNV SAP ERP environment and quarterly evaluation of any mitigating controls agrees.
• Annual Risk Register Management support to conduct the annual risk evaluation exercise, documentation into the Organisational Risk Register and management of the open actions for UNACCEPTABLE risks, ensuring they are bought to closure within an acceptable time frame.
• Business Partner KYC Questionnaires and data provisions completion of required documentation requested by business partners of behalf of PNV, when entering new business partnerships, ready for review and sign off by the AVP ESG & Compliance.
• Management of the Navex Compliance platform to include management of the PNV starters / leavers / movers process, publication and targeting of new corporate policies and respecting targeting.
• Secretarial support for the Risk Steering Committee.
• Dissemination of any resulting Lessons Learnt programmes that incorporate any control recommendations or appropriate training, identified as a control failure / risk(s).
• Management of the Compliance Attestation processes including support of the PNV Accountability Attestation, Know Your Business Partner onboarding and ESG input to the Supply Chain PC3 programme (Performance, Performance, Conformance and Collaboration).
• Ad-hoc support to ensure the successful delivery of the governance workstream of the organisational ESG, risk & compliance framework.

About you:

Candidates with at least 3 years of experience in a financial, internal audit, compliance or governance role, ideally within pharmaceuticals or other highly regulated industry, are likely to have the skills required to be successful in this role. We are also looking for:

• Relevant Professional qualifications, e.g. Finance, Audit, Compliance, Governance or a related discipline
• Strong understanding of governance, risk and compliance processes
• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication in business English
• Excellent IT skills and knowledge of MS packages, particularly Excel
• Relevant experience of managing GRC data in SAP or a similar ERP environment
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to partner effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, across multiple business functions, with the confidence to provide advice to key stakeholders, including the senior executive team
• Driven and forward-thinking, able to work well in a team and work cross-functionally
• Comfortable operating globally in a fast-paced international environment
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills
• Highly versatile and adaptable, able to take a hands-on approach

What we offer:

We offer a competitive salary plus bonus and rewards package including holiday, health & wellbeing program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.