Manager Internal Control North America

**Manager Internal Control North America** * **Location**_: Bogotá, Colombia_ You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a Manager Internal Control North America, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human. **About the job:** The Manager, Internal Control North America is responsible for the regional coordination and effective operation of the Internal Control Framework across all countries and entities in the North America region (US, Canada). The role acts as the primary internal control business partner for regional and local Finance and business leadership, ensuring disciplined execution of the annual internal control cadence, strong country ownership, and timely remediation of control gaps. The role is a “last-mile orchestration” layer: it coordinates country readiness and stakeholder engagement for Controls Self-Assessment (CSA) and testing cycles, while testing execution is performed by the IC Testing and Automation organization and framework design and scripts are owned by IC Design and Architecture. The role ensures consistent ways of working across countries and escalates issues when required. **_Main Responsibilities:_** * Serve as the primary internal control point of contact for regional and local leadership, providing pragmatic guidance on framework expectations and control ownership. * Drive consistent adoption of Internal Control standards across countries, including documentation expectations, control ownership, and escalation practices. * Identify emerging regional risks and recurring control execution challenges, and escalate themes to Head of Risk and Internal Control and relevant process owners. * Plan and coordinate the regional CSA cycle: set expectations, mobilize countries, manage timeline, and monitor completion and sign-off. * Perform quality challenge of CSA outputs at regional level: consistency checks, evidence readiness challenge, and escalation of weak assessments. * Act as the regional escalation point for testing issues requiring business context, prioritization, or leadership intervention, in partnership with the Director, IC Testing and Automation. * Own regional remediation governance: prioritize actions, track progress, challenge delays, and ensure timely closure and re-testing where applicable. * Coordinate with IC Design and Architecture on interpretation topics, control execution challenges, and feedback from countries to improve scripts, evidence expectations, and control design. * Partner with IC Excellence on adoption of standards, tool usage, training rollouts, and reporting cadence. **_About You:_** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field required; Master's degree preferred. * 8+ years of experience in internal controls, internal audit, finance, or risk assurance roles, preferably in a multinational or regulated environment. * Experience operating in a multi-country model with strong stakeholder management and influence at senior levels. * Exposure to key commercial finance mechanisms such as trade spend and promotions, customer rebates, chargebacks, returns, and distributor or wholesaler models.·  * Experience managing control topics in commercial processes (Order to Cash and Gross-to-Net), including accrual governance, contract terms, pricing and deductions. * Experience coordinating governance cycles and campaigns (CSA, testing readiness, remediation follow-up, reporting). * Exposure to end-to-end processes and internal control frameworks (COSO; SOX exposure is a plus). * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including senior leadership interactions. * Excellent written and spoken English, comfort working across time zones. This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. **We are challengers. We are Opella.** **About Us:** Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.   Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at [www.opella.com](http://www.opella.com/).