
Internal Controls and Improvement Specialist, Nordic MCO
Stockholm, SwedenStockholm, Sweden| Asker, Norway
The Europe & Canada (EUCAN) Business unit supports Takeda's mission at a regional level and as the leader in rare diseases and specialty care, we champion better health and a brighter future for patients, healthcare providers and our people.
Across the EUCAN BU, patients come first in every decision we make. We develop strategic partnerships which deliver value for society and create a culture within which our people can thrive and reach their full potential.
Our mission is to empower and enable our people to fulfill their potential by embracing diversity and creating a high-performance, collaborative working environment. In the EUCAN region integrity is one of our key values. We put patients, trust and reputation before business and this is one of the main reasons why our people choose to work here.
Stockholm, Sweden| Asker, Norway
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Job Description
Fixed-term opportunity from 1 June 2025 – 31 March 2026.
This position will play a key role in the design and implementation of improving the company system of Internal controls, assuring adherence to all group and local compliance programs and align ways of working in the Nordic MCO (Multi-Country-Organization).
This role has a primary focus to drive process improvement and efficiency while maintaining proper controls, among others this project aims to find efficiencies with opportunity to consolidate controls from individual LOCs in Nordics to single one that would work for the whole Nordics. In addition, this role will liaise with global/regional functions to ensure procedures and operational flows in place are updated in accordance with the group’s/local programs. This role will liaise with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, HR, Ethics & Compliance, and other functions to enable consistency and efficiency across control programs.
This position will support internal governance to preserve business compliance to all relevant policies, laws and regulations and at the same time adhere to Takeda Values and the Patients, Trust, Reputation and Business (PTRB) principles.
The role will support E&C and Finance with regular monitoring activities of key business processes.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Effectively work cross-departmentally to ensure corporate-wide compliance is achieved including design, communicate, educate, implement, and make recommendations to develop and maintain the thorough and complete controls environment aligned with Company’s compliance strategy
- Review competences for super users and key users in P2P and evaluate the need of refresher trainings
- Act project leader during internal audit and self-testing; having overall control of sample requests & documentation tracking, meeting /interview bookings, samplings etc. for the Nordic MCO and each Nordic country
Education:
- University degree in economics, business, engineering or related field
- Preferred Advanced degree/courses in business, economics, ethics & compliance, engineering, or related field preferred
- Excellent English
Experience:
- Proven finance operations experience (AP, AR, inventory, GL, reporting, sales, fixed assets), with proven technical knowledge of applying GAAP, IFRS and/or experience from a role in Compliance operations.
- Significant first-hand working expertise of internal controls; experience as internal/external auditor -preferable in pharma
- Proven project management skills, including management of cross-functional teams, communication, design, execution, testing, documentation
- Strong written and oral communication skills, and ability to clearly present financial data in reports distributed to regional and global officers but also to non-Finance stakeholders
- Supervisory experience and working closely with senior management
- Experience from work experience in a Pharma company in a similar roles will be
CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE:
- Test Nordic MCO vs most common financial and compliance internal audit findings => suggest and implement remediation and aligned ways of working to avoid repeated internal audit findings
- Process design and find efficiencies in Nordic MCO
- Implement controls, where needed
- Cross-functional teamwork, Collaboration
Locations
SWE - Stockholm - LindhagensgatanAsker, NorwayWorker Type
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What makes a successful team member within EUCAN at Takeda?
- Agile
- Analytical
- Enthusiastic
- Ambitious
- Collaborative
- Entrepreneurial
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