Supervisor/Manager of Internal Audit

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating, and one day curing, life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, we are developing advanced cell therapies across a diverse array of technology platforms, including autologous and allogenic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, T-cell receptor (TCR-T), and natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. From our three R&D sites around the world, we apply these innovative technologies to pursue the discovery of safe, efficacious and cutting-edge therapeutics for patients worldwide.  

Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Janssen, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, to jointly develop and commercialize ciltacabtagene autolecuel (cilta-cel). Our strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Legend Biotech is seeking Supervisor/Manager of Internal Audit as part of the Internal Audit team based in Somerset, NJ. 

Role Overview

Legend Biotech (the Company) seeks a high performing and high energy Supervisor/Manager to join the Global Internal Audit (IA) department. This individual will be responsible for following the COSO Framework and executing an end to end Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) audit for a broad range of processes, including conducting process walkthroughs to assess control design effectiveness, testing control to assess control operating effectiveness, documenting all audit workpaper under the Audit Documentation Standards and internal instructions, working closely with control owners on any remediation, and timely providing status to all level of requirements.

Additionally, this individual is required to conduct risk based operational audits, including but not limits to, Financial, Operational, Compliance, Legal, Technology, and certain special projects audits, following the Institute of Internal Auditor (IIA) Standards.

The key objective of this role is to provide an independent and objective assessment of, as well as add value to improve the Company's control and operation environment to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of process, procedures and controls. The Supervisor of Internal Audit will apply IA’s Policy and Procedure to skillfully manage audit lifecycle from planning, to scoping, fieldwork, reporting and following through audit remediations. This role will report to the Global Head of Internal Audit and collaborate with other IA team members globally, business process owners, key stakeholders, and external auditors, on a daily basis.

The key characters of this individual is expected to have creating and critical thinking skills, be risk conscious, control driven, proactive, relationship building, strong written and verbal communication skills. Proficient English is must for this role. This individual is also expected to have strong multi-tasking, time management, prioritization, flexible to work with Global team members, strong team player, being receptive, being courageous and being open minded to contribute to build Interna Audit brand, and act with sense of urgency and ownership.

Key Responsibilities  

• Take ownership to perform and document end to end SOX test from walkthroughs, to test of controls and remediation, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company’s SOX 404 program. Closely working with IA team members, control owners and External Auditors.
• Perform audit risk assessment and develop risk based and value adding audit program via planning and scoping.
• Proficiently conduct audit lifecycle from audit planning to audit reporting to meet audit objectives and to ensure compliant, effective and efficient processes and controls are in place:
  • Interview key process owners to assess business processes and the maturity of their control environments.
  • Leverage data analysis in risk assessment and execution of audits.
  • Execute and manage testing procedures that address high risk areas in scope in accordance with Legend Internal Audit and IIA Standards.
  • Identify control gaps, improvement opportunities, and value-added recommendations to strengthen and improve the control environment.
  • Evaluate the risk and potential business impact of identified deficiencies.
  • Document audit workpapers with reperformance standards to include test attributes, associated risks, test conclusions, and opportunities for process improvement.
  • Align audit findings with process owners and op