Senior Auditor, Global Compliance Audit

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

•        Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

•        Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

•        An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

•        Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

•        A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

•        A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Willis Tower, Chicago, IL location. The Senior Auditor, Global Compliance Audit, has the primary responsibility of conducting global sales and marketing compliance audits for all of Abbott’s global operating divisions and Affiliates. Compliance audits provide assurance on the effectiveness of the key elements of Abbott’s Ethics & Compliance Program.

The audit scope areas covered include, but are not limited to, the following activities undertaken by the Commercial businesses within the Corporation:

• Meals, Travel and Entertainment Expenses

• Professional Service Arrangements

• Training & Education Support

• Charitable Contributions

• Commercial Transactions

• Research Funding and Scientific Activities/Publications

• No-Charge Products

• Promotional Practices

• Ethics & Compliance Program

• Third-party Activities

• Transparency Reporting

Auditors will conduct sales and marketing compliance audits and formulate recommendations for improvement in operating performance and controls over the course of an 18-36 month rotation in Corporate Audit. 

The individual should have the demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, present professionally, and collaborate with the highest level of Corporate and Divisional management, as well as with the individual’s peer group in Compliance, Finance and IT Audit.

Core Responsibilities:

This Senior Auditor, Global Compliance Audit, has primary responsibility for executing the following duties:

• Identify opportunities for improvements in sales & marketing practices against Corporate policies, local procedures, industry standards and laws/regulations.

• Analyze data and document findings and recommendations in audit reports.

• Present audit findings to Audit management and Divisional and Corporate management.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• This position requires a Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.  A graduate degree is desirable.  It is also desirable that the individual be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). 

• The individual should have at least three to five years of related work experience.  Part of the experience would have been obtained from employment with a major public accounting/consulting firm or law firm specializing in consulting and/or forensic engagements related to healthcare compliance, government reimbursement mechanisms, and/or sales & marketing compliance programs related to pharmaceuticals, medical or diagnostic devices, or nutritional products