Internal Controls Coordinator

Internal Controls 

São Paulo, Brazil 

Lead internal controls across 10 Latin American countries, partnering with diverse teams to strengthen governance and drive audit excellence. This is your opportunity to shape control frameworks at scale while developing as a trusted business partner across a dynamic region. Read more and apply today! 

Your new role 

As Internal Controls Coordinator, you'll manage the complete portfolio of audit and internal control projects across Latin America, ensuring robust governance and risk management practices. You'll be the driving force behind control optimization and standardization, presenting to stakeholders across the region and acting as a strategic business partner. 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Managing and coordinating internal control and audit projects across 10 Latin American countries, establishing audit scope and test procedures 

• Leading the preparation, review, and monthly submission of Internal Controls, ensuring timely completion and accuracy 

• Optimizing and standardizing Internal Controls frameworks across LATAM to drive consistency and excellence 

• Conducting risk analysis, impact assessments, and developing mitigation plans to address identified vulnerabilities 

• Presenting findings and recommendations to stakeholders across Latin America, demonstrating control failures and improvement action plans 

• Collaborating with internal and external auditors, ensuring global and local procedures are properly applied 

• Monitoring and validating action plans to address audit findings, working with process owners to resolve root causes 

• Delivering Internal Controls training to stakeholders, building capability across the organization 

• Performing process mapping, flowchart design, and executing Internal Controls testing 

• Supporting SAP user access evaluation and GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) processes 

• Actively participating in global Internal Controls meetings and the Internal Forum to ensure risk monitoring 

• Hybrid work arrangement (3-4 days per week in the office). 

Your new department 

In Finance, Legal & Global Solutions, we enable Novo Nordisk to fulfil our purpose by safeguarding the business, providing corporate infrastructure, and driving value creation. We are a team of 2,300 colleagues primarily based at our headquarters in Denmark and our Global Business Services centres in India and Mexico. 

As part of the LATAM Finance team, you'll work within a dynamic environment covering 10 countries across the region. This role sits at the intersection of governance, audit, and business partnership – ensuring we maintain the highest standards of internal controls while enabling the business to operate effectively and ethically across Latin America. 

Your skills and qualifications 

We're looking for an experienced professional with strong internal controls and audit expertise who thrives in a multi-country environment. You'll bring: 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Internal Controls, Accounting, and/or Audit (mandatory) 

• Fluent English for presentations and leading cross-country stakeholder engagement (mandatory) 

• Strong expertise in internal controls frameworks and audit methodologies within LATAM context 

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation purposes (mandatory) 

• Excellent presentation and communication skills with the confidence to lead discussions across diverse audiences 

• Experience with SAP systems (desirable but not mandatory) 

• Spanish language skills (desirable) 

• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail and ability to identify risks and control gaps 

• Ability to work collaboratively as a business partner while maintaining independence and objectivity 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.  

What we offer 

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.