Pharmacy SOX Director

JOB TITLE: INTERIM PHARMACY SOX DIRECTOR

Essential Functions:
Provides leadership to professional staff.
Facilitates resolution of major problems encountered by customers and management.
Works with senior management to negotiate major revisions in time commitment and resource allocation.
Ensures strategic direction of projects are in line with organizational business plan.
Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcomes and meeting assigned deliverables.
Provides leadership and oversight in the development of a strong internal control environment for Pharmacy Program wide.
Oversees implementation and ongoing compliance with SOX and ensures control practices comply with regulatory agency laws and mandates.
Champions SOX and enhanced control initiatives including overall responsibility of risk management with regards to operations, financial controls and compliance
Recommends, formulates and develops in partnership with management, actions plans to address identified control weaknesses.
Establishes effective relationships with Regional Controllers, Regional Finance Leaders, Program Office, SOX Mega Leads, SOX PMO, SOX Governance Board, NCO and Compliance Officers and their respective staff.
Manages a team of professional staff to educate on internal controls, ensure remediation of control deficiencies and provide expert consultation on financial controls issues and solution to mitigate risks to the Regions.
Provides leadership in assisting business owners with development and deployment of solutions to address internal control weaknesses.
Coordinates compliance processes and procedures across organizational and functional boundaries.
Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences.
May include developing training program for different levels of audiences.
Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management.
Liaisons with internal and external auditors regarding all aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley and Financial Governance compliance issues.

Required Experience:

6 years of significant accounting and auditing experience in a regulated environment.
Experience in managing, and developing a team of professional staff.
Significant knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 legislation.
Expertise in generally accepted accounting principles, internal control concepts, information technology system controls.
Supervisory experience required.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
Working knowledge and understanding of internal controls and risk assessment
Ability to multi-task
Ability to work in fast-paced environment with multiple business units
Ability to clearly communicate with customers and Pharmacy Management
Problem solving and facilitating skills
Project management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Effective interpersonal and negotiating skills
Adaptable

Preferred Experience:
10 years of significant accounting and auditing experience in a regulated environment.
Master Degree/MBA and/or CPA, CIA, CMA or CISA Certificate holder

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in business, finance, accounting or information systems

Top  personality characteristics:

1. COLLABORATIVE 2. RESULT ORIENTED 3. STRONG, INDEPENDENT LEADER