GBS Controls & Compliance Specialist

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
We are seeking an Internal Auditor II to join our Internal Controls & Compliance team at Thermo Fisher Scientific. In this role, you'll help establish and maintain robust internal control practices across our Shared Services Centers, ensuring compliance with SOX and ISO requirements and other regulatory frameworks. You'll collaborate with Internal/External Auditors and finance teams to strengthen our control environment while identifying process improvements and mitigating risks. This position offers opportunities to conduct control reviews, support audit activities, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. You'll contribute to maintaining the integrity of our financial processes while supporting our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

Position Summary:

The objective of this role is to support the implementation and embedment of internal controls practices specifically for financial processes within the relevant Shared Services Centres, to ensure a robust control environment is established and sustained there.

This role will work closely with Internal/External Auditors, the local finance workstream leads and other  stakeholders in support of the company’s internal controls and execution of programs such as SOX, ISO, Privacy, BCP and Cybersecurity.

The role will be a member of the Global Controls & Compliance team and will have responsibilities in

accordance with this.

Responsibilities:

• Support the finance workstream in identifying and documenting processes and procedures surrounding internal controls.
• Support the implementation of the company’s compliance program in the relevant Shared Service Centres, while ensuring compliance with regulatory rules and deadlines (BCP, Cyber Sec, Data Privacy etc).
• Support the External and Internal audits impacting the Shared Service Centres to ensure smooth delivery of audit requests. Also act as a facilitator btw auditors and finance workstream as needed. Ensure that any audit findings are remediated in a timely and quality manner.  
• Monitor the implementation of activities related to projects (automation, system-upgrades etc) and ensure control implications are properly taken into account.
• Deliver monthly spot checking of control operation for the relevant finance workstream. Report to leadership any control gaps identified, and support remediation of them to avoid subsequent audit findings.
• Ensure that adequate awareness raising/training programs are in place to increase risk and control understanding in operations teams.
• Identify areas of opportunity for process improvement.
• Perform quality review on finance process documentations. 

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• College/University degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
• At least 3 years of financial audit/internal controls/shared service process experience
• Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work; detail oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Good analytical, computer (Word and Excel), and organization skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines; the ability to work well with all levels of management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong problem-solving skills