SD M&S Finance Analyst

• Location: Bogotá, Colombia

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As Finance Analyst within our Controlling Operations team, you’ll provide controlling support to local Business Units, including preparation of budgets and forecasts (Budget/F1/F2/Quarterly Landings/Rolling Forecast), monthly closings (sales & expense reviews/scorecards), project approval and tracking, and other financial planning & analysis activities on a timely basis.

Main responsibilities:

• Support the month-end and quarter-end closing activities: prepare accruals and journal entries to be posted in SAP, and manage and correct master data 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.)

• Support all activities related with the Costing Controller deliverables on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

• As part of the closing process, understand and apply allocation methods, where applicable

• 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.

• 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 between

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

• Opportunities for business partnering responsibilities and activities

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

• Utilize continuous improvement in daily activities to identify process simplification
  opportunities and enhance tools improvements

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

• Continuously challenge legacy ways of working, status quo; identify gaps, and recommend new ways of working

• Increase Financial and business acumen

• Promote efficiencies and improved ways of working across designated region and ensure best practice sharing

• Support all key Finance initiatives

• Ad hoc projects as required

About you

• Experience: Previous financial controlling experience

• Soft and technical skills: Demonstrated results building partnerships with multi-levels across businesses, high attention to detail and advanced Excel skills

• Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance is required

• Languages: Advanced English level

Why choose us?

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

• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.

• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.

• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.

• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave

• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.

• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!