Job title: _ _ - GBS Americas Internal Control Lead_ - _ Location: Bogotá, Colombia_ - _ Job type: Permanent_ - About the job - Our Team: - Sanofi CHC (Consumer Health Care) has set up its Global Business Services (GBS) center in Chattanooga to provide Finance & Accounting (Account-to-Report, _ - Customer-Invoicing-to-Cash,_ - Source-to-Value) for its American subsidiaries._ - The GBS Americas Internal Control Lead is a key interlocutor of the head of the CHC GBS Chattanooga for establishing and maintaining a reliable control environment._ - His/her initiatives aim at ensuring, at the GBS level, the reliability and exhaustiveness of the financial information, the security of assets as well as the compliance with established guidelines and procedures in line with Global policies._ - He/she conducts a risk-assessment process and a yearly control self-assessment, ongoing self-testing, participates in local committees, identifies internal control deficiencies, recommends improvements, helps to develop adequate action plans and follows up their implementation._ - Main responsibilities: - Procedures and Policies_ - _ Jointly with the local head of Internal Control, provide active support to process owners for the formalization and design of local procedures and ensure that actual processes and controls are adequately described in local procedures,_ - _ Ensure that local procedures are formalized, updated and in line with the Global policies, standards and guidance and verify that local procedures are adequately approved and communicated,_ - _ Maintain a list of local procedures in place._ - Segregation of Duties and Access to Systems_ - _ Jointly with process owners, monitor the definition and enforcement of proper segregation of duties rules, and ensure they are in line with the requirements of the Global policies, standards and guidance,_ - _ Jointly with process owners and IS, perform regular reviews of potential user access conflicts in information systems, and propose organization changes and/or mitigating controls._ - Trainings_ - _ Organize internal control trainings and support for training employees on policies and procedures and develop targeted actions to increase internal awareness._ - Control framework_ - _ Implement Sanofi Internal Control Manual and CHC Core Model,_ - _ Perform regular updates to the Control Framework, to follow the evolution of the Sanofi Internal Control Manual, and the release and/or amendments of Global policies and standards,_ - _ Contribute to the continuous improvement by providing constructive feedbacks and sharing best practices._ - Control Self-Assessment & Control Self-Testing_ - _ Conduct an annual Control Self-Assessment for the scope of the Regional Hub in collaboration with the local head of Internal Control,_ - _ Support CHC Process Owners with the definition and implementation of action plans,_ - _ Develop a local self-testing strategy and program and execute accordingly,_ - _ Follow-up on the implementation of action plans,_ - _ Update action plan tracking tool_ - _ Present results to the Regional Hub management meeting_._ - Monitoring and Relationship with Auditors (internal and external), Internal Control & Processes (IC&P;) and with E&BI;_ - _ Act as key point of contact for the Global Head of Risk Management, Process Control and Data Privacy for all the activities related to Risk, Process Control and Compliance_ - _ Act as a key point of contact for the local Internal Control & Processes (IC&P;) for internal control matters_ - _ Act as a key point of contact for the Internal Audit before, during and after internal audit reviews,_ - _ In agreement with the Head of CHC GBS Chattanooga, participate in internal audit opening and closing meetings,_ - _ Ensure a timely and detailed follow-up of the implementation of internal audit recommendations,_ - _ Jointly with the local head of Internal Control support external auditors’ activities related to internal control and facilitate exchange of information,_ - _ Follow up internal control weaknesses highlighted by external auditors, ensure adequate action plans have been defined, and follow up implementation and report progress to the Head of CHC GBS Chattanooga,_ - _ Collaborate with E&BI; manager on self-testing of compliance controls,_ - _ Participate to Country Compliance Committee as a permanent guest._ - Testing of Internal Controls_ - _ Perform permanent testing on scope covered by the CHC GBS Americas as per the monthly calendar for A2R (Journal Entries calculation and posting; IC reporting; Month End reporting; Cash accounting; Reconciliations; Fixed Assets; Master Data), CI2C (Cash allocation), S2V (Purchase sequence, Accounts Payable, Payments) and General (SOD; Antivirus; Procedures; Organization Chart; Trainings on IC & Code of Ethics)_ - _ Provide monthly reports of the permanent testing to Head of CHC GBS Chattanooga_ - _ Perform root cause analysis for the testing failed_ - _ Propose action plan related