Manager, SOX & Internal Audit, IT

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the IT business areas of Moderna’s Internal Audit and SOX compliance programs. The Manager will be responsible for developing and executing a risk-based internal audit plan with urgency, ensuring effective SOX compliance across all global financial and business operations with a focus on IT processes and IT supported processes. This role will partner closely with various departments acting like an owner to safeguard company’s assets, enhance its internal control environment, and ensure compliance with all relevant regulations. The ideal candidate will push past possible to innovate internal audit processes and help the organization remain agile.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

SOX Compliance Responsibilities:

• Oversee SOX Digital risk assessments, ensuring alignment with Section 404 and ICFR requirements, while obsessing over learning and applying insights to compliance processes

• Manage the planning, execution, and documentation of SOX testing activities for IT processes and IT supported processes, working closely with external auditors and co-sourced SOX testing teams to ensure seamless collaboration

• Digitize everywhere possible by collaborating with IT and business process owners to ensure proper design and operation of internal controls, aiming at enhanced automation and reliance on IT controls

• Coordinate day-to-day activities of 3rd party providers for IT SOX testing, escalating issues in a timely manner to maintain dynamic range in execution and resolution

• Partner effectively with Digital control owners to ensure timely completion of testing and certifications, and prevent control deficiencies

• Provide training and support to control owners, ensuring all SOX documentation remains up-to-date and compliant with regulatory standards, while questioning convention to drive the best outcomes

Internal Audit / ERM Responsibilities:

• Pursue options in parallel by developing, executing, and maintaining a dynamic, risk-based audit plan that covers critical business processes, financial controls, and third-party relationships, specifically focusing on IT processes and IT supported processes

• Lead audit engagements, ensuring that all significant risks are identified, communicated, and addressed in a timely manner, while accepting risk as on the path to driving impact

• Cooperate effectively with Moderna’s Digital teams to ensure full understanding of processes and issues, and support risk mitigation actions as well as enhanced process efficiencies

• Report audit findings with urgency to senior management and the CAE, ensuring clear communication of significant risk exposures, control issues, and recommended actions to remove viscosity in decision-making

• Manage collaboratively the annual Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process, organizing interviews, maintaining risk maps and schedules, as well as reporting risk identifications and mitigation actions to the Executive Committee and to the Audit Committee

• Act as a key advisor in the design and continuous improvement of Moderna’s internal audit strategy, pivoting fearlessly in response to new data or emerging risks

Continuous Improvement & Risk Management:

• Push past possible by identifying gaps in controls and leading initiatives to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the company’s internal control environment

• Drive continuous improvement across all audit and SOX processes, obsessing over learning to mitigate risks and optimize compliance efforts, ensuring long-term impact

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in internal audit, SOX compliance, financial reporting, or a related field, with a proven record in IT / Digital audit roles

• Experience in a Big Four public accounting firm or similar audit/compliance role within the biotech/pharma industry and a focus on IT processes and controls

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), preferred;

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, COSO framework, and global financial reporting standards

• Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all organizational levels

• High ethical standards, integrity, and the ability to maintain confidentiality

• A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work.  That’s why our US benefits and global well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

• Best-in-class healthcare coverage, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs

• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support

• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown

• Savings and investment opportunities to help you plan for the future

• Location-specific perks and extras

The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.  

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities. 

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S. 

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities. 

Our Working Model 

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact. 

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment. 

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law.  Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply!

Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best. 

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at [email protected]. 

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