SOX - IT Compliance Specialist

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 75,000

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SOX - IT Compliance Specialist, Cambridge

Location:

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

26.03.2025

Expiry Date:

10.05.2025

Job Description:

At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

Job Summary

As a SOX- IT Compliance Specialist you will provide Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 subject matter expertise to ensure appropriate processes, procedures, and controls are adequately designed, implemented, or remediated to meet audit and compliance expectations, operating efficiency goals, and other business objectives in collaboration with IT Management, Internal, and External Audit, and Internal Control, on all initiatives associated with SOX 404 IT General Control (ITGC) compliance.

Note: It’s a fully remote position. Travel may be required at 15-20% (US/International).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Assess and document all IT General Controls (ITGC) related to the SOX 404 program as part of ongoing compliance efforts for the Company’s EU/US entities and any other assigned areas.
2. Ensure effective and efficient control design, implementation, and testing procedures.
3. Identify and evaluate internal control gaps and deficiencies and propose remediation strategies including monitoring and reporting timely resolution.
4. Identify process and control improvements in automation and consolidation opportunities.
5. Research and recommend supporting tools and technologies to support or improve controls.
6. Drive increase in maturity of overall IT General Control environment.
7. Work directly with Internal Control, Internal Audit, and External Audit on SOX and IT internal audit-related activities including planning and oversight of IT internal audits, walkthroughs, testing, documentation of findings, issue remediation, follow-up, etc.
8. Work directly with IT process and control owners to provide support, education, and recommendations for strengthening the IT control environment.

Supporting both our UK & US - SOX - IT Compliance process.

Qualifications:

1. Education: Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Finance, or related field.
2. Very strong professional experience in IT Audit and/or Controls Assurance, Finance, or IT SOX compliance. Must have technology risk management & audit SOX compliance experience in a highly regulated industry.
3. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
4. Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, deliverables, and stakeholders.

About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.