Sr. Associate, Internal Audit

Sr. Associate, Internal Audit

Bio Marin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. Bio Marin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.

Bio Marin Internal Audit is committed to helping Bio Marin achieve its full potential in transforming patient's lives by minimizing overall company risk.  We pride ourselves in being objective and independent of the areas we assess, while maintaining our commitment to advance the organization. We provide independent assurance to the board of directors and management. Our disciplined approach evaluates the effectiveness of Bio Marin's risk management, control and governance processes.

We also assist with proactive advisory projects.  An open and transparent partnership helps us develop the appropriate context and understanding of the issues at hand, minimize surprises, and drive greater value in the outcomes.

In carrying out our mission, we pledge to:

* Be a trusted partner

* Lead with integrity & enthusiasm

* Focus on what matters

* Share industry practices

As part of our mission, we also aim to provide valuable business insights (covering governance, risk, and control, and beyond), using data analytics to identify potential indicators for non-compliance, fraud and waste.

Sr. Associate, Internal Audit:

This role reports to the Head of Internal Audit[SH1.1], and the Sr. Associate will be instrumental in building a world-class internal audit function, a function that provides both assurance and advisory services regarding Bio Marin's governance, risk and control effectiveness, as well as a function that generates actionable business insights.

This role partners with other members of the Internal Audit team and is responsible for performing audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of internal controls, to identify instances of non-compliance, ineffective or inefficient operations, potential fraud, waste, and abuse.  In carrying out this role, you must demonstrate good business acumen and robust experience with assessing risk and conducting internal audits. You

serve as a trusted partner to the business, continually staying abreast of enterprise-wide initiatives and functional strategies, to ultimately ensure that the Internal Audit portfolio of audits is aligned with key business risks.

Responsibilities

The position of Sr. Associate reports to the Head of Internal Audit. The key responsibility of this position is to support audit planning, execution, and reporting by leveraging data to perform robust analysis aimed at identifying trends, anomalies, and control weaknesses across the process/system/organization, with a focus on effectiveness, compliance and operational integrity.

1. Planning the audit

* Participate in audit scoping discussions with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Operations, IT) and Audit Leadership to understand relevant risk, controls, and associated data sources supporting audit areas

* Conduct research and reference available documentation to develop the risk and control matrix to inform the audit scope.

* Develop audit planning memos memorializing the audit scope, objective and approach

* Manage the collection, review, and storage of all supporting audit documentation within the audit system

2. Conducting the Audit

* Coordinate audit interviews and process walkthrough, including the agenda, leading the discussion, and memorializing the outcomes/notes

* Creates the initial audit testing workbook detailing the key risks and controls in the process and the subsequent testing plan (and testing attributes) required to provide reasonable assurance over the design and operating effectiveness of management's controls or insights needed for decision makers.

* Manages outreach to stakeholders to request relevant data / system reports, and or other to…