Global Transparency Operations – Compliance Specialist
AstraZeneca Poland is a key global site that is dynamically growing in all departments – from commercial, R&D, IT, Global Trial Safety Review, Global Procurement Services, HR and Global Finance Services. We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process – making it easier to get vital repeatable services done – for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.
We focus on providing exceptional value that contributes to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s bold ambition.
The Global Transparency Operations Sr. Specialist is part of the Global Payment Transparency (GPT) team that is responsible for fulfilling AstraZeneca’s external disclosure obligations across Europe, the United States (US), as well as international countries with new emerging transparency requirements such as Japan and Australia. The Global Payment Transparency team is part of the overall Global Assurance and Reporting Services within the Global Business Shared Services organization, aligned to Finance.
Working in a complex, matrixed high activity environment, the Global Transparency Operations Sr. Specialist contributes to the team’s overall remit by processing high quality, accurate, and consistent payment data, prioritized by our overall reporting timelines, (as captured directly from AstraZeneca’s financial systems and indirectly from external third-party suppliers) that comprises the organization’s disclosure reports.
The Sr. Specialist will be primarily responsible for partnering with key internal and external customers to capture and reconcile data collected both internally through various internal financial or event management systems or externally via third party suppliers who disburse payments and transfers of value on behalf of the company; working within defined timelines as members of the Global Payment Transparency team to create accurate, complete and timely disclosure reports as required by individual countries (for example, across Europe, the US, Japan, Australia).
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Conduct data stewardship, data analysis & reconciliation processes of internal and external data, including but not limited to determining the purpose of the payments for inclusion or exclusion in a disclosure report, and completing the process within defined timelines to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to clarify or seek additional information pertaining to identified data issues, including missing data elements (for example, a unique identifier for the recipient) as needed to complete data processing.
- Contribute and adhere to Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) processes and standards, operating as an additional line of control in performing data quality reviews.
- Acquire an understanding of the basic reporting requirements for each country’s disclosure obligations to assess in data collection, reconciliation, and overall accuracy.
- Gain knowledge of AstraZeneca’s internal systems that contribute to a disclosure report (for example, the financial system SAP, the meal and expense reimbursement system Concur, the Healthcare Master Systems, etc.) to aid in the identification of reportable transactions for data processing.
- Gain knowledge of the AstraZeneca business and the drug development process
- Contribute, as needed, to other projects or assignments (for example, on-boarding a new disclosure requirement), participating in team meetings, training sessions.
- Support internal and external audits or data requests of payment transparency data as necessary.
- Support driving and embedding a culture of ethics, integrity, and compliance in identifying potential policy breaches (for example, a meal cost that exceeds a policy limit)
Requirements :
Minimum Specific Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or relevant field)
- Experience in finance, auditing, quality assurance/control, SOX, data management/stewardship and/or risk management
- Strong project management skills with the ability to handle competing projects simultaneously within aggressive timelines.
- Ability to interpret and use data effectively, understand business context and generate improvement actions.
- Strong ethical, collaborative, and influencing skills.
- Experience working with large amounts of data, with attention to detail.
- Excellent computer skills, including data and reporting software programs.
- Fluent command of English
Optional and/or Preferred Background:
- Experience in or with the biopharmaceutical industry or a consulting firm working with pharmaceutical clients.
- Knowledge of data reporting & analytics tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik View/Sense, etc.)
- Prior exposure or familiarity with scripts (e.g., Microsoft Excel + VBA.) will be a plus.
- Working knowledge of / experience with payment transparency requirements in Europe (EFPIA), the US (Open Payments or formerly Sunshine Act)
- Global / cross-cultural experience
