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Key Responsibilities and Major Duties

Governance:

Sustains a strong Internal Controls framework within GPS Switzerland entities, including maintaining policies and work instructions, imparting GPS specific trainings, responding to day-to-day inquiries from GPS process owners and escalating issues to key leadership within BU operations and Business Controls.

Regular engagement with management in key business processes and functions to proactively identify and mitigate financial, operational and fraud risk.

Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in GPS controls, contract management and approval authority.

Provide interpretations of corporate policies and procedures to business process owners.

Drive a systematic, risk-focused, disciplined and balanced approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of risk management, internal controls, and governance processes.

Financial, Operational & Fraud Risk Assessment:

Assist the site GPS Finance teams and BCF GPS leadership in the risk assessment process by helping identify risks and process improvement opportunities and implementing potential mitigating controls.

Collaborate and proactively problem-solve with Global Finance leads and GPS leadership to address critical operational changes and the impact on internal controls.

Monitor higher risk areas identified in risk assessments and review if mitigation actions are in place and promptly executed.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) & Quarterly Sub-Certification Activities:

Raise and evaluate all out-of-period financial statement adjustments, control failures and Global Internal Audit & Assurance (GIA) observations for potential SOX deficiency reporting related to the GPS Swiss based manufacturing sites.

Work with the BCF leadership team to make determinations as to the pervasiveness and financial magnitude of control deficiencies, and to design effective and efficient remediation plans.

Work with senior leadership to identify and evaluate the Company’s most significant changes in the internal control environment. This task includes evaluating changes to systems, processes and personnel that have an impact on BMS financial, operational, and fraud risk.

Follow-up on all financial control deficiency and fraud risk remediation measures, whether arising from Sarbanes-Oxley testing, the quarterly close process, internal audit observations, the BCF risk assessment, anti-bribery corruption and fraud monitoring, etc. Report quarterly and more frequently as necessary, to senior BCF and operational leadership on the status thereof through formal, quarterly meetings.

Participate in annual walk-throughs/ inventory counts with BPOs and external auditor.

Evaluate the accuracy and completeness of the Company’s internal control standards.

Contribute to qualitative SOX scoping decisions to ensure consideration of GPS specific risks in attribute testing.

T&E/P-card fraud monitoring activities

Review and assess results of quarterly  T&E and P-card fraud monitoring, including determining need to report to the Company’s Law & Compliance Department. Obtain results of the disbursements review and T&E review and communicate as appropriate to adequate stakeholders.

Remain abreast of developments both internally within BMS and externally in this area, and ensure that testing procedures are tailored accordingly, in cooperation with the BCF’s  fraud manager.

Escalate significant findings identified in quarterly monitoring to GPS Finance Director and BCF GPS leadership, and Compliance & Law Department to ensure appropriate follow-up/remediation occurs. Escalate any other non-compliance with Company policy and procedure as required even if originating from sources other than monitoring activities.

Internal Audit Support

Assist and support as necessary with internal and external audits related to the GPS Swiss based manufacturing sites (e.g., responding to inquiries, providing explanations regarding controls, policy/procedure, end-to end process, reviewing and consulting on findings/observations)

Determine the appropriateness of any GIA-recommended remediation activities, in particular in response to a qualified or adverse internal audit report opinion, or in response to recommendations that suggest significant system or process change.

Follow-up to ensure that process owners promptly remediate audit observations.

Other Activities

Periodically participate in third party due diligence and monitoring engagements when requested by the business (e.g., contract manufacturing organizations).

Support in documenting and formalizing E2E process flows, Work Instructions, SOPs as required by the Swiss GPS BUs.

Support as needed the Shared Services centers with any BCF related activities for concerned entities.

Participate on special projects, including systems implementations designed to enhance compliance, improve performance or increase efficiency within the GPS function.

Deliver training on new policies and procedures affecting any of the GPS Swiss based manufacturing entities

 (Disclaimer: The responsibilities listed above are only a summary and other responsibilities will be requirements as assigned)

Supervisory Responsibility (List job titles of positions that report directly or indirectly to this position and indicate nature of relationship): n/a

Key Stakeholders/Contacts – describe this position’s key internal matrix relationships and key external stakeholders/clients

Key internal stakeholders:

Internal Audit department

GPS

Commercialization

R&D and Medical

Corporate Financial Reporting

Corporate Tax Department

Key external stakeholders:

Statutory Auditors

Other Federal and related Administrations

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On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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