Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to help support and execute audit readiness planning and strategy, with a focus on SOX and other external non-GxP audits involving AbbVie enterprise systems. The role is instrumental to ensuring compliance with Business Technology Solutions (BTS) policies, procedures, and processes within the Operations and Enterprise Systems (OES) organization. This position will also support and work directly with enterprise system and control owners to ensure their internal controls are designed and operating effectively, and control execution evidence is sufficiently retained and timely produced during audits. In addition, this role will assist in ensuring audit engagements are kept within scope, potential audit findings are properly vetted, and agreed-upon recommendations are implemented in a timely and effective manner.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring AbbVie enterprise systems are compliant with AbbVie requirements and are ready for SOX and other applicable external non-GxP audits
• Working with enterprise system control owners to ensure IT general controls (ITGC) and IT application controls (ITAC) are effectively executed, and audit evidence is accurate, complete and sufficiently retained
• Monitoring and coordinating the timely execution of recuring SOX controls, ensuring near-real-time status updates and visibility in Jira
• In partnership with the OES Recertification team, driving and coordinating the periodic user access recertification of SOX systems, ensuring adherence to EAE (electronic audit evidence) / IPE (information produced by the entity) documentation standard and quality requirements
• Ensuring the right control subject matter experts (SME) participate in SOX audit walkthroughs and they are the ones speaking to their processes and controls
• Proactively monitoring SOX execution for potential deficiencies and near misses and provide timely deficiency updates to OES Compliance leadership
• Coordinating potential deficiency validation with control owners, ensuring they are valid; working with control owners to ensure deficiencies are timely remediated and closed out
• Participating in SOX walkthroughs and working with the SOX PMO and external auditors to ensure audit engagements are executed within scope and IPE request due dates are realistic
• Managing EAE requests, following up with assignees and escalating as appropriate to ensure timely fulfilment
• Providing education and guidance to help control owners and other stakeholders understand SOX requirements and expectations, and to help navigate AbbVie requirements to effectively manage risks and minimize organizational impact
• Championing continuous improvement initiatives and serving as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on risk, control, and compliance matters
• Developing, implementing, and reporting SOX audit readiness support metrics; using insights from metrics to drive process improvements
• Interfacing with key stakeholders (OES BTS process owners, the SOX PMO, Information Security and Risk Management, and the external auditors) to ensure successful audits
• Performing work using standard methodologies and risk-based approach and bringing external perspectives to AbbVie OES Compliance
• Cross-training on internal audit readiness support activities and playing a supporting role as needed

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate

Required

• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of IT compliance/audit experience or master's degree with 5 years of IT compliance/audit experience
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, and communication skills
• Intuitive, proactive, and demonstrated problem-solving skill

Beneficial

• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in a diverse, global team environment and across different levels of management
• Experience with business applications, such as SAP and manufacturing Operations Technology (OT) systems

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is a considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.