About this role
Job title: Senior Manager Data Analytics, Technology & Innovation
About the Role Lead data analytics, automation, and technology innovation initiatives within Corporate Audit to strengthen Amgen’s control environment. You will execute the Corporate Audit technology strategy, oversee audit technology platforms, and organize training to upskill staff, and support leadership with innovation, data, automation, and reporting. This role embeds analytics and automation into audit planning, scoping, execution, reporting, risk assessment, and monitoring across the audit universe.
What You'll Do
- Lead Corporate Audit’s data analytics, automation, and technology innovation initiatives, including the development and execution of the department’s technology roadmap.
- Analyze data to identify and implement analytics, automation, and reporting solutions that provide meaningful insights and improve audit planning and execution across the audit universe.
- Embed analytics into audit methodology and processes, including risk assessment, audit planning, scoping, fieldwork, exception analysis, issue impact quantification, corrective action validation, and reporting.
- Drive automation opportunities that streamline audit procedures, improve consistency, and reduce manual effort across Corporate Audit activities.
- Design and develop processes to extract data from internal and external sources, transform the data into meaningful business and audit-relevant elements, combine data across sources, and load data into appropriate data structures for analysis and reporting. Support onboarding of new data sets, maintenance of existing data sets, and continued access to dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Develop metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and other reporting solutions to make data-driven insights available to audit teams, business partners, and leadership. Provide production support for data-related processes to ensure continuity and integrity of reports, dashboards, automations, and other data solutions.
- Work collaboratively with IT teams, internal business partners, audit teams, and external vendors to identify, understand, implement, and support new technology capabilities while maintaining alignment to Corporate Audit objectives. Maintain analytics across affiliate, distributor, investigations, functional, IS, SOX-related activities, third-party reviews, and other Corporate Audit services; be an analytics partner to Compliance.
- Lead continuous improvement of Corporate Audit’s technology ecosystem, including audit management systems, collaboration tools, reporting platforms, automation tools, and data visualization solutions. Partner with audit leadership to identify training needs, deliver technical training, and build data analytics and technology capabilities across the team. Exercise sound judgment and initiative on issues of significance to Corporate Audit and Amgen. Support special projects and strategic initiatives as needed.
- Travel: International and domestic travel up to 10% may be necessary to support clients, audits, or training.
What We're Looking For
- Doctorate degree and 8 years of data analytics, audit, finance, information systems, or related experience; or Master’s degree and 10 years; or Bachelor’s degree and 12 years; or Associate’s degree and 14 years; or High school diploma / GED and 14+ years of data analytics, audit, finance, information systems, or related experience.
- Preferred Qualifications: 12+ years of demonstrated success in roles involving business process analysis, data analysis, audit analytics, audit automation, or large technology-related projects. Experience applying data analytics within internal audit, compliance, finance, information systems.
Nice to Have
- Audit, Risk & Control Experience: 12+ years in roles involving business process analysis, data analysis, audit analytics, audit automation, or large technology-related projects.
- Experience applying data analytics within internal audit, compliance, finance, information systems.