Job Description

Main responsibilities:

• Transform and mutualize Finance Opex support to increase value to Business Support Function Leads and Finance Business Partners

• Enable Business Leaders to drive decision making, execution and agility through increased support, improved quality, greater focus and understanding of needs

• Reimagine Finance tools, processes, and controls to drive simplification, standardization with increased quality and accuracy

• Design ways of working with Finance Business Partners across all GBUs and ConOps hub team to provide cohesive and seamless support to Business Leaders

• Implement transformation projects to drive process centralization, simplification, standardization with increased quality and accuracy while ensuring the daily business continuity across countries and markets.

• Deliver efficient, high quality and compliant controlling services related to the budgeting and forecasting as well as closing and reporting.

• Responsible for forecasting executing the budgeted OPEX plan including tracking actuals, approval of projects & providing direction to business owners.

• Develop insightful analysis of forecasted spend to Finance Business Partners and Business Leads.

• Understand and apply best practices from within ConOps or external best-in-class service organizations.

• Ensure Compliance and Internal Control / SOX standards are met. Perform necessary controls in line with all ethical & compliance rules of the Group.

About you

• Experience

  • 7+ years of experience in a Finance related position with increasing responsibility

• Soft skills

• Can deliver with rigorous and high stress timelines and deliverables

• Ability to influence others; proven ability to actively listen to the needs of stakeholders

• Must have open, collaborative and teamwork mindset to work collectively with FinOps including ConOps KL hub as well as FBPs.

• Drive change and efficiency through proactively challenging the status quo

• Technical skills

  • Solid grasp of evolving Sanofi technology platforms, processes and controls including SAGA

  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects, work effectively with cross-functional partners and drive process improvement initiatives across an organization

  • Good organizational and analytical skills as well as communication skills to build commitment and create trust

  • Strong analytical capabilities, problem-solver and proven experience working collaboratively across multiple internal/external stakeholders is required

• Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required

• Preferred

  • MBA and/or CPA

  • Commercial Finance experience

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