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Manager II, Internal Control

Req # JR - 168014 Location Heredia, Provincia de Heredia, Costa Rica Job Category Finance Date posted 04/25/2025
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Overview

This is where your insights influence change. As a member of the Baxter Finance team, you have the critical thinking and analytical mindset that allows you to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights that help teams learn and adapt along the way. We guide our internal partners to understand financial opportunities or realities that move Baxter forward and closer to our mission to save and sustain lives. While you often work independently with your cross-functional team, you always have the greater finance organization to lean on for support and career mentoring.

  • Support for Parents

  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development

  • Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits

  • Paid Time Off

  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

Success Profile

What makes a successful Finance team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.

  • Adaptable
  • Analytical
  • Detail-oriented
  • Easygoing
  • Results-driven
  • Team player

Manager II, Internal Control

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This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

Leads all aspects of a team of 4 to 7 professionals advising on financial reporting controls. In addition, this role owns the design and implementation of processes and controls related to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting matters. Reporting to the Associate Director – Compliance and Controls, this role will have broad exposure to various functions (i.e. Finance, Operations, Sales, IT, etc.), along with working very closely with external auditors.

Your Team

Join an outstanding team at Baxter Healthcare Corporation where our products and therapies have a significant impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. We are driven by ambitious goals to transform global healthcare and bring more personalized care to all!

What you'll be doing

  • We conduct the annual risk assessment process that drives the department’s activities including SOX and ad-hoc risk-based reviews.

  • We establish contact points within the various business organizations with responsibility for internal controls over financial reporting.

  • We support the execution of the SOX program and ad-hoc risk-based audits while ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.

  • We facilitate the external financial statement audit, including coordinating auditor's requests, being responsible for the update of process documentation, and ensuring remediation of deficiencies

  • We participate in control deficiency evaluation and remediation activities to ensure effective remediation of control deficiencies.

  • We are the subject matter authority on SOX and internal control matters for the Americas region.

  • As an Internal Control thought-leader, provide mentorship on how to adapt the internal controls to changing business and regulatory environment.

  • We support internal audits over financial reporting processes to ensure alignment on audit results and remediation activities.

  • We find opportunities to streamline processes, increase automation, see opportunities data analytics, rationalize controls, and make recommendations to improve the underlying process and controls.

  • We develop and implement communication/training program to drive awareness on the importance of internal controls to the broad organization.

  • We support the design and implementation of processes and controls related to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting.; continue to expand as these programs mature and in response to changing regulatory environment.

  • Coordinate Americas compliance program under Global Interactions Policy; facilitate Interactions process, address non-compliance, provide training.

  • Recruit, hire, train, and manage a team of 4-7 professionals across the Americas region.

What you'll bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related fields

  • CPA certification and/or CIA designations are helpful

  • A minimum of 12 years of S-Ox audit experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment of a publicly traded company

  • Deep understanding of GAAP, COSO, Sarbanes Oxley Act, and PCAOB guidelines

  • Experience or exposure to ESG requirements

  • Experience with the implementation and assessment of IT general controls

Reasonable Accommodations

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Hear from Our Employees

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

Meet Monica Weber, Senior Analyst, Finance, Singapore

“Though Finance is often referred to as a support function, I find finance to be a critical aspect of Baxter operations. The finance community is one of the most connected across the globe and, from my experience, highly regarded among business partners. Every project I support or initiative I'm involved in I try to look at the total Baxter picture and understand how it relates to the business and patients. Having that level of insight behind my work drives motivation.”

Meet Serge Vandermotten, COE Controller, Benelux

“My job has always fascinated me at Baxter. After 33 years of service, this is where I want to continue my career. I have stayed because it is a large company grounded in sound ethics and provides countless opportunities for development and innovation. It is a company that lives, progresses, and constantly develops with time. I have great pleasure in forming professional relationships with my colleagues as we learn from each other’s experiences.”

Meet Joselyn Alvarez, Senior Analyst, Costa Rica

“It is impossible to be a part of Baxter and not learn and grow. I've had the opportunity to learn valuable skills from coworkers and enjoy the relationships we have built as professionals. As a global company, Baxter always looks towards automation and improvement. I know that my work helps us be more efficient and precise in ensuring that our products are consistently available to patients.”

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