Finance Compliance Senior Manager

**Function**
- Finance

**Sub function**
- Risk Management

**Category**
- Senior Manager, Risk Management (PL8)

**Location**
- Beerse / Leiden / Belgium / Netherlands

**Date posted**
- Jun 10 2025

**Requisition number**
- R-016212

**Work pattern**
- Hybrid Work

Description

**Job Function**:
Finance
** Job Sub Function**:
Risk Management
** Job Category**:
People Leader
** All Job Posting Locations**:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands
** Job Description**:
**Finance Compliance Senior Manager**

**Possible locations: Beerse, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands**

**Contract: full time,**permanent**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

As part of the Innovative Medicine Risk & Advisory team, you will be you will be accountable to maintain and develop a strong, efficient & adequate Internal Control environment within the IMPO BENE campus.

Your role will be to act as the centre of excellence to support all risk & compliance requests, support all critical projects from a risk & compliance standpoint and lead all audit reviews on behalf of the finance organizations.

**The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have**:
**LOCAL BENE Responsibilities**
- Establishes, maintains and promotes the Risk Advisory & Compliance Strategy within the BENE campus.
- Proactively identifies operational and financial Risks + proposes adequate and efficient Controls to mitigate gaps.
- Acts a centre of excellence for all internal control/compliance and risk related topics.
- Prepares and conducts SOX Training in accordance to Training Programme.
- Ensures financial processes and reporting is aligned with local and statutory regulations;
- Coordinates execution and reviews the SOX testing results for the processes on site
- Coordinates implementation of prior audit recommendations and other internal control gaps and ensure they are closed timely and effectively;
- Ensures full alignment with management & creates strong business partnerships between all stakeholders (see “Internal Relationships” above);
- Executes the end to end SOX process, ensuring Corporate SOX deadlines are timely and effectively achieved;
- Looks to optimize the business processes/operations and internal controls, through Continuous Improvement;
- Act as the Single Point of Contact for compliance and audit matters (Global Audit & PwC);
**Risk Advisory Team Lead**
- Lead and develop a high performing team of 4 professionals by establishing a clear vision and strong team governance
- Define and execute the strategic vision for financial compliance across IMPO identifying opportunities for improvement with a risk based mindset
- Act as a key enabler for value creaton by designing and maintaining an efficient operating model and interaction framework
- Provide steady leadership through ambiguity and change fostering optimal collaboration and alignment
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement and operational risk awareness delivering robust internal controls to support the broader IMPO finance strategy

**IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU**

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

- A minimum of 8 years of post-graduate experience (finance/compliance related).
- Expertise with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.
- Expertise of accessing internal controls and communicating findings to a range of stakeholders.
- Previous knowledge of a manufacturing business is preferred.
- Existing recognized accounting qualification such as CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or CIA (Corporate Internal Audit).
- Excellent communication and project management skills.
- Strong finance/business acumen.
- Proactively: ability to look and perform “outside the box”.
- Process oriented, strong analytical skills.
- “Can do” attitude: ability to manage complex and ambiguous situations.
- Strong people management skills