Executive Director, Business Controls

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Position: Executive Director, Business Controls

Location: Princeton, New Jersey

Position Summary

The Executive Director, Business Controls Function leads Bristol-Myers Squibb's risk management and internal controls department, responsible for governance of over 75 professionals and ownership of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) internal control design and assessment program.  This position reports directly to Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, and regular interacts with the Company' senior management.  The individual is a key contributor to the Company's overall enterprise risk management and strategy.  The Executive Director ensures delivery of critical risk management over financial, operational, and anti-fraud risks. 

The Executive Director reports quarterly to senior management and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors on the adequacy of controls supporting financial processes. The Executive Director also provides essential guidance to senior management and key process owners, including internal controls over financial reporting, results of global antifraud, bribery and corruption monitoring, the status of Global Internal Audit & Assurance (GIA) findings, changes in the Company's control environment, and other matters.  The BCF also executes a comprehensive risk assessment, third party due diligence risk assessment and monitoring procedures, and supports development and assessment of control process flow partnering with global process owners in design and assessment of control over business processes.  The position oversees 5 direct reports with deep expertise in the Company's controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley statutory requirements, commercial market operations, technical accounting, fraud and compliance, manufacturing, R&D, and information technology.  The organization also includes business process champions with subject matter expertise in the Company's end-to-end processes, and BCF staff in every commercial market, manufacturing plant and R&D operations.

Key to the success of the BCF Leader is the knowledge and experience in the central business process and commercial market operations, the ability to collaborate with key management and provide guidance on the appropriate and timely resolution of financial and operational risk matters, as well as the ability to gain the confidence and cooperation of global process owners and functional managers. Key responsibilities are bifurcated between internal controls over financial reporting, business/operational risk assessment and anti-fraud, bribery, monitoring compliance related activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

Governance

• Provides vision for overall operating standards, framework and governance including special projects to achieve the BCF organization's strategic objectives.

• Responsible for on-going BCF resourcing, hiring, training, develop, support, tools, and technology.

• Ensures that the BCF has appropriate stakeholder engagement with all key executives in areas of risk. 

• Collaborates with senior financial, compliance, legal and operating leaders in support of the internal control environment and related risk assessment and monitoring process.

• Leads innovation in building a “controls driven culture” across BMS. Establishes and builds relationships with business leaders, various anti-fraud, audit and compliance committees, and the external and internal auditors. Builds a BCF community coveted to work in and talent pipeline to other organizations.

• Keeps abreast of professional developments related to controls, accounting and other skills relevant to this position and department staff.  

Sarbanes-Oxley & Sub-Certification Activities

• Responsible for Sarbanes Oxley complian