Internal Auditor M/F

Job description

Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail. ​

ROLE & MISSIONS:

The Sanofi Internal Paris Hub is part of the Sanofi Internal Audit Department which reports to the CEO and the Audit Committee.

In a world where organization and environment are changing constantly and quickly, Sanofi Internal Audit’s (SIA’s) mission is to provide the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee with independent and objective and reasonable assurance, regarding the group’s ability to control its operations in line with Institute of Internal Audit (IIA) international standards. SIA helps Sanofi execute its strategy and achieve business objectives by assessing and improving the effectiveness of Sanofi’s governance, risk management, and control processes. SIA commits to alert management on significant risks and to monitor their effective mitigation.

The Sanofi Internal Audit Department relies on 3 hubs (in the USA, France and Singapore) and 2 expertise (Forensic and IS). The Paris Hub follows the same methodology and remains independent from France Global Operations and covers Eurasia Middle-East, Africa, Europe Regions and Corporate Functions.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

·  Every 6-7 weeks (3-4 weeks of preparation in Paris, followed by 3 weeks of fieldwork) you will have to audit a process within one of Sanofi’s business units (in either Eurasia, Middle-East, Africa and Europe Regions) or Corporate Function and with a changing team of colleagues. The scope and project will change for each assignment.

·  During the audit preparation, you will need to get familiar with the process, through training, reviewing of Corporate Guidelines, local SOP, interviews of global or regional process owners, analyzing data, reviewing usual area for improvement for that process, benchmarking versus internal or external best practices. You will also have to get familiar with the business environment, entity performance and organization to be able to put area for improvement into perspective. Based, on your knowledge of the process and risks you will have to develop your audit program to be conducted on the field.

·  During fieldwork you will have to develop a deep knowledge of the actual local process and identify areas for improvement to better manage the associated risk. This will require asking the relevant questions to several individuals involve in the process, to dig into data, to identify trends and vouching documents to spot inconsistencies and complete the relevant testing strategy.

·  When you have identified areas for improvement you will have to debrief the process owner, convince her/ him and work with her/ him on how to concretely improve the process.

·  During all the different phase you will be exchanging with the team leader who will help you developing the most relevant and reliable approach.

·  Since time available will be limited you will have constantly manage your priorities and manage short timelines.

·  Your work will also have to be properly document so that it can be reviewed to ensure reliability and relevancy since one of our value proposition is to provide reliable conclusions.

·  During audit wrap up , you will have to write your recommendations, straight to the point, short and easy to understand for individual not familiar with the process which will receive the report. You will also have to follow-up on the action plan committed by the audited organization.

When you have acquired enough knowledge within the department and you have the necessary management skills you will also be a lead auditor on some assignments. In this role you will have to:

·  Prepare the assignment with the support of the team. Get familiar with the audited organization, the audit environment and processes. Identify main risks and define priorities for the assignment, set the audit strategy and customize the audit program, allocate auditors work.
·  During fieldwork
·  Review auditors work and adjust the audit strategy accordingly.
·  Review identified findings to ensure accuracy and with the relevant root cause.
·  Propose corrective action plans leveraging on good practices identified on other assignments.
·  Debrief the findings to senior manager.
·  Complete your own audit steps (depending on the assignment this part may vary from 20% to 60% of your time).
·  Conduct the opening and closing meeting.
·  Be the contact point for the supervisor (either the Hub Head or the Manager) during the fieldwork.
·  After fieldwork
·  Prepare the draft audit report to be reviewed by the supervisor.
·  Ensure that the audit documentation is completed as per defined standards.
·  Review the proposed action plan by the auditees to ensure they will remediate identified risks.
·  Provide feedback to each team member to develop them.
·  Contribute to the follow-up of the agreed action plan.
·  Provide assistance and individual advice to the audit team.

Besides, the audits you will be assigned a Center of Expertise depending on your background (manage medical, market to promote, plan to manufacture, procure to pay, or manage finance). For this area you are expected to train your colleague, to share your knowledge and good practice. You will also have to interact with the Senior Leaders of the function to inform them on the identified recurring findings, on how to address them more globally and to get familiar and provide feedback on any global guidance or requirement. You will have to improve the way we are reviewing those process, up-dating the audit program.

REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES:

Education/work experience

·  Bachelor’s Degree Required, Master's preferred.
·  Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech preferred, not required.
·  5 years or more of working experience in internal or external audit in a big 4 company.
·  International exposure and/or experience would be appreciated.
·  Fluent English.

Skills and attributes

The ideal candidate is inquisitive, persuasive, service oriented, able to recognize and responds to diverse thinking styles, learning styles and cultural qualities, finally he has a global mindset.

·  Integrity.
·  Relationship building.
·  Partnering.
·  Communications.
·  Teamwork.
·  Diversity.
·  Continuous improvement.

Auditors are expected to stay at least 3 years within the department before moving to a new role.

BENEFITS OF JOINING INTERNAL AUDIT:

If you apply, get selected to join the team and invest yourself in this role; you will get familiar with many different processes, many organizations and business environments. You will be more inquisitive, persuasive, be proficient in change management, be more service oriented, you will be able to recognize and adapt to the different thinking styles, learning styles and cultural profiles. You will also have a global mindset and hopefully you will have contributed to make the company better. After this role you can either continue your career within Sanofi Internal Audit or move to a broad spectrum of positions including Sales, Marketing, and Finance, Business Development, Supply Chain, procurement, human resources, PMO or chief of staff.

Sanofi is committed to welcoming and integrating people with disabilities.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.

As part of its diversity commitment, Sanofi is welcoming and integrating people with disabilities.