.Senior Finance Program Lead Controls and Compliance Description: Summary: The Senior Finance Program Lead is responsible for designing and implementing the appropriate tools, processes, and governance to effectively manage the Controls and Compliance processes across the WW Commercial Organization.
This role extends beyond traditional finance to encompass business topics from Pricing to Payment, supported by a sophisticated IT infrastructure.
The primary objective is to anticipate and prevent business and financial risks before they can significantly or materially impact HP's financial statements.
Responsibilities: Define, implement, and execute a robust end-to-end process of management for SOX, Substantive, and Compliance, covering both business and finance areas.
Establish a set of well-structured governance frameworks involving multiple management levels.
Drive awareness and accountability across the organization with adequate communication and training sessions.
Actively participate in SOX-related topics within the 'Purple' project, led by the Contra Revenue Design team, which aims to digitalize and automate contra revenue accrual mechanisms: Gain an in-depth understanding of accrual models and contribute to the design of new SOX controls resulting from this digitalization/automation.
Contribute to the overall 'management of change' created by this major transformation.
Drive and document an independent and thorough SOX Risk Coverage Analysis to ensure continuous improvement in controls and compliance processes: Draw a detailed mapping of the key business, financial, IT processes with an associated heatmap of risks and materiality.
Consult key subject matter experts across business and finance organizations to corroborate the risk and materiality analysis.
Develop analytic tools and processes, by integrating new technologies such as AI/ML, to detect and anticipate new risks.
Provide documented conclusions and drive concrete actions to continuously improve the control coverage and reduce the risks.
Education and Experience Required: Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in financial management, internal audit, accounting, or a related field.
Knowledge and Skills Required: Demonstrated cross-functional, cross-cultural collaboration and international experience.
Proven expertise in large project or program management.
Highly organized and structured.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Solution-oriented with a can-do attitude.
Continuous Improvement mindset.
Autonomous and transparent.
Attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and the ability to model/simplify complex processes/issues.
Strong ability to prepare materials for executive reviews.
High sense of accountability