Associate Director - Audit & Assurance Services

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

Attention NJ Applicants: In April 2020, our Company announced plans to consolidate our New Jersey campuses into a single New Jersey headquarters location in Rahway, NJ by 2023. Therefore, the NJ work location for this role will be temporarily based and the exact timing of the departmental move to Rahway, NJ will be communicated at a future date.

Position Overview / Function and Responsibility:

The Associate Director:

• Lead a small team through financial and compliance audits and assessments across all of our Company divisions and functions to evaluate the adequacy of internal controls and deliver audit reports that add value to the area audited.

• Coaches and trains staff members during the execution of the audits and assessments.

• Demonstrates knowledge of and techniques to assess risk and evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls in moderately complex business scenarios in accordance with timelines.

• Applies knowledge to analyze and evaluate business scenarios following a risk based approach and maintains supporting documentation.

• Coaches in the skill of detecting, analyzing, quantifying and reporting non-conformance.

• Participates in projects to drive continuous improvement and efficiencies.

• Provides technical guidance and consultation on Company Policies and Procedures/Control Issues to the client and audit staff.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

• Our Company's Corporate Audit embraces a flexible hybrid work environment that values both in-person and virtual work settings to create value and career development opportunities. Our flexible and team-based approach leverages data, technology and various collaboration tools in support of our global team.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance and CPA preferred.

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of finance and/or audit experience.

• Ability to identify and integrate patterns, trends, and inconsistencies across data sources to determine their broader implications.

• Coach in ways to improve team cohesiveness and effectiveness.

• Maintains team’s focus in the face of distractions, problems or crises.

• Ability to proactively share information through appropriate mediums to keep others informed.

• Ability to use an open communication style that actively acknowledges other thoughts and opinions

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• A professional audit and/or control, security certification such as CPA, CISA, CIA, CMA, CFE.

• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

• Big 4 Audit experience.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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New hires in office-based roles in the US & Puerto Rico will be required, subject to applicable law, to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement that can be accommodated without an undue burden to the operation. However, subject to applicable law, employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as employees in health services, customer facing commercial, or research based roles, will be required to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

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Requisition ID:R184709