Senior Manager - Scoping, Planning and Reporting

Job Purpose:

To lead the end-to-end scoping, planning, and reporting of IBM/SOX audit, ensuring the right scope of entity/ market / controls / FSLI are in place to deliver efficiently, manage risk, and meet regulatory, quality, and timeline commitments

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering end-to-end SOX compliance program – from scoping and planning of IBM/SOX audits, including identification of in-scope entities, markets, processes, controls, and FSLIs in line with regulatory and internal requirements to drafting reporting to Audit Committee. Lead assessment and embedding of SOX standard controls for new SOX entities in scope as required

• Deliver Year-End Certification and provide memo for the Disclosure Committee.

• Develop and maintain annual and cycle-level controls testing audit plans, ensuring appropriate coverage, prioritisation based on risk, and alignment with audit timelines.

• Assess risk factors and changes (business, regulatory, system, organisational) to adjust scope and testing strategies proactively.

• Plan and manage resource requirements (internal teams, co-sourcing, specialists), ensuring the right skills and capacity are allocated across audits.

• Coordinate with Finance, Tech, HR, and external auditors to validate scope assumptions and resolve scoping issues early and ensuring testing standards are followed.

• Ensure quality and consistency of scoping documentation, including clear rationale, approvals, and audit trail.

• Monitor delivery against milestones, quality standards, and regulatory deadlines, escalating risks and capacity constraints where required.

• Drive continuous improvement in scoping and planning methodologies to enhance efficiency, reduce duplication, and strengthen risk coverage, working with a solution minded focus and leveraging digital innovative solutions (e.g. use of Agentic AI) and propose enhancements to current agentic AI solutions and support implementation

Required Skills:

Qualifications & Experience

• Chartered Accountant (CA)

• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Finance

• 10+ years of relevant experience in SOX, internal audit, or controls roles

• Experience in large, complex, or global organisations preferred

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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