About the Job

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This role is part of a high performing team centered on Finance transformation and becoming the best-in-class Finance organization. As a Financial Analyst, you will support your local finance operations team in various responsibilities such as budget and forecasting, project tracking analysis, month-end and quarter-end closing activities to help ensure the completeness and accuracy of the financials to meet targets and drive results.

As part of the Finance Operations and Transformation Team, there will be many opportunities to improve processes and improve collaboration with your Finance partners and business partners to grow and demonstrate your analytical and interpersonal abilities. This person will help to identify and implement new ways of working as we transform the way Sanofi’s Controls Sales & Opex.

Main Responsibilities:

• Support the month-end and quarter-end closing activities: prepare accruals and journal entries to be posted in SAP, manage and correct master data (as part of the process owner) in financial systems (SAP and TM1). This will include supporting sales and/or opex and/or areas with complexities which require additional technical knowledge (i.e., Gross to Net, Fringe, CAPEX, etc.).

• Manage Personnel Costs controlling, including STI (Bonus) Accrual and True-Up Process.

• Prepare analysis to substantiate appropriate balance sheet accruals, prepaids or reserves (gross to net).

• Partner with A2R (Account to Report) to ensure a timely and accurate close process.

• Support the identification of new ways of working with Finance Business Partners (FBP)
  across Business Units and within Finance Operations to provide cohesive and seamless
  support to Business Leaders.

• Support the financial reporting process, providing results directly to Controllers for monthly commentary.

• Analyze results, including trends in order to extract potential risks and opportunities to
  present to management for review.

• Prepare monthly account reconciliations and provide a clear explanation of balance
  fluctuations as well as itemization of balance components. Prepare specialized reporting (AI schedules) for off balance-sheet reporting.

• Provide commitments tracking to help FBPs and Controllers understand year-to-date and year-to-go actuals as well as support monthly commentary for variance analysis.

• Support Business Partners to analyze spend activities and prepare monthly accruals vs
  forecast as needed.

• Ensure compliance with all Sox & internal control processes and responsible for monthly controlling checklist activities.

• Initial point of contact for Financial Controller to provide technical expertise and guidance as needed.

• Utilize continuous improvement in daily activities, challenge legacy ways of working, identify gaps, recommend new ways of working and ensure best practice sharing across teams.

• Ad hoc projects as required.

About You

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance is required.

• Minimum 3-years of working experience as a financial analyst, preferably within pharmaceutical industry.

• Must have high attention to detail, quality and proven ability to operate effectively under pressure and strict deadlines.

• Strong organization skills - able to track and manage a high volume of projects at a detailed level. Able to work with multiple systems & tools, preference on those who has the exposure to SAP.

• Adaptable and able to work in complex matrix environment.

• Change agent who can propose, lead, and drive changes. Strong analytical capabilities with attention to detail and strategic thinking.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including health insurance, out-patient benefits along with a range of family friendly policies such as maternity, paternity, and solo parent leaves to name a few.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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