Fresenius Group

Senior Manager, HR Services Audit & Compliance

Senior Manager, HR Services Audit & Compliance at Fresenius Group (Lisbon). Lead HR audit strategy, compliance programs, and team oversight. Requires 7+ years HR/Audit experience, multi-country expertise. Global role with flexible hours.

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Business Process Analyst
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
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Job description

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December 9, 2025

Senior Manager, HR Services Audit & Compliance will assist in the execution of FME's compliance program through designing, aligning and rolling-out our HR Services Audit & Compliance program. The role will lead a team who will undertake activities to prevent, detect and respond to emerging risk.

Requirements

  • Provide strategic leadership to Senior Business Analysts defining organizational objectives, prioritizing initiatives, and ensuring optimal resource alignment to achieve global HR goals
  • Design, develop and execute HR Services Audit and Compliance strategy ensuring alignment with Internal Controls, Global Internal Audit, Data Privacy and Information Security and other internal stakeholders
  • Lead partnership with Internal Controls and Audit teams to proactively identify control gaps, manage incidents, and drive resolution strategies
  • Present audit outcomes, compliance assessments, and risk mitigation plans to senior leadership and the board
  • Provide guidance on local HRS internal controls in alignment to global design and determine if need to remain as local controls
  • Lead discussions with HR and Payroll Global Process Owners on wider global HR and payroll process designs discussions and HR Service model transition efforts
  • Oversee team's administration of periodic audit of Workday, Payroll and Time & Attendance security roles
  • Collaborate with teams to solution audit findings – determine preventive and corrective actions on both local, regional and global levels
  • Partner with stakeholders to validate new legislative changes and company policies on processes as well as HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance systems to meet compliance
  • Partner cross-functionally with Information Security, Compliance, Data Privacy, and Internal Controls to safeguard data integrity, ensure third-party compliance, and strengthen business continuity plans
  • Act as an escalation for all HR Service teams to resolve compliance related incidents such as but not limited to data breaches, incorrect regulation interpretation affecting pay calculation etc.
  • Accountable for coordination and reporting of corporate HR risk management semi-annually to the board
  • Accountable for the global design and coordination of pre-audit readiness assessment procedures; executed quarterly
  • Create, standardize and roll out business management and communication plans and standards for data security incidents (i.e., data breach, data loss)
  • Conceptualize and lead HR Service audit and compliance related training
  • Oversee a team who will coordinate and liase with external third parties on audit activities
  • Oversee a team to develop and maintain job aids, checklists and other tools to facilitate execution
  • Communicate updates, system and business changes to stakeholders as needed
  • Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Knowledge Management on wider HR governance quality framework
  • Validate internal and SOX standards and controls are met
  • Take lead consultant role in projects where data handling process flows are being adjusted
  • Oversee team's project work where database migrations or security protocols are impacted
  • Support vendor relationship management including escalation management within respective field

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a global company
  • Flexible working hours to cover global timezones
  • Willingness to travel for on-site workshops

Requirements Summary

7+ years' professional experience either within an HR environment or Audit/Compliance role, Multi-country experience with designing or executing internal or external audit and compliance tasks