Healthcare Compliance Office; HCO Senior Compliance Manager - Auditing

The Position

The Opportunity

• The Healthcare Compliance Office (HCO) Sr. Compliance Manager Auditing position leads internal compliance audits across Genentech.

• This individual is responsible for conducting complex, in-depth healthcare compliance audits and facilitating corrective action plans within areas of the Genentech organization. This role designs and executes HCO audits by working with other members of the HCO Auditing team or by leading a team of consultants and legal counsel. In the role, this individual:

• Uses knowledge of compliance risks and understanding of database reporting capabilities to develop audit strategies and audit plans.

• Executes routine and ad hoc healthcare compliance audits of department/function processes across Genentech to ensure adherence to healthcare compliance and ethics policies, guidelines and SOPs.

• Collects, examines, and analyzes records, policies, operating practices, documentation, and transactions; prepares and presents audit reports; recommends opportunities to strengthen the internal control structure and assists with corrective action planning.

• Summarizes and communicates audit progress and findings to various levels of management, both live and in written materials.

• Collaborates with other HCO team members, Legal and cross-functional stakeholders across the organization on audit findings, recommended corrective actions and/or risk mitigation.

• Conducts routine and ad hoc follow-up from previous auditing activities to ensure corrective actions or other remedies have been sufficiently completed in a timely manner.

• Develops relationships with Genentech personnel across functions and teams and provides coaching and compliance guidance as needed or otherwise appropriate.

• Escalates issues to HCO investigators or others, according to established departmental procedures and protocols.

• Contributes to the annual and longer-range Work Plan and Audit Plan development and implementation.

• Where applicable, manages outside consultants and legal counsel to ensure on-time, on-target and within-budget deliverables.

• Proactively identifies trends, dynamics or other factors influencing Genentech's overall healthcare and related compliance to provide forward input into future HCO plans and objectives.

• Assists with other HCO duties and/or projects related to areas such as operations, monitoring, investigations, policy, training, and transparency.

• Has impeccable ethics.

• Requires limited direction to complete standard work.

• Excellent project management skills: can prioritize multiple tasks and goals to ensure timely, on target and within-budget accomplishment.

• Proven track record of effective decision-making: makes good business decisions and consistently exercises sound judgment, including when to escalate issues.

• Strong verbal and written business communication skills: adept at synthesizing and summarizing complex content into clear, concise, and actionable communications.

• Strong process-orientation: proven ability to identify, develop and implement scalable processes and continuous improvements to achieve organizational efficiencies.

• Strong business acumen: understands how the business works and can navigate across the organization.

• Thinks creatively for solutions and applies creative problem solving to address compliance risk.

• Strong influencing skills: ability to build relationships with key partners and stakeholders across organizational levels and to manage conflict and negotiate corrective actions.

• Demonstrates ability to identify appropriate resources and knows when to leverage internal resources.

• Bachelors Degree required (life sciences, law, public policy, marketing, business, education, finance/accounting or related discipline preferred).

• Professional certification preferred (CFE, CIA, CPA, etc.).

• Graduate-level Degree preferred (JD, MBA, MEd or related discipline).

• Healthcare Compliance Certification preferred (before or within 6 months of appointment).

• Ability to travel.

• 6 or more years of work experience in legal, compliance, auditing, or investigations (bio/pharma industry related experience or consulting firm experience preferred).

• Demonstrated…