A2R Closing and Reporting Senior Accountant

• Location: Budapest – Sanofi Business Operations, Váci Greens
• Remote working: 60% home 40% office
• Job type: Permanent, full-time

About the job
Our Team
Sanofi Business Operations (SBO), one of the 4 pillars of Sanofi’s Business Transformation organization, is setting up a captive Business Services center in Budapest to provide Finance & Accounting (Account-to-Report, Customer-Invoicing-to-Cash) as well as Employee oriented (Employee Experience) services.

With respect to Account to Report (A2R) the Business Services center will be covering the following areas of the process

• Assets Management
• Tax Accounting
• Intercompany Accounting
• Treasury Accounting
• GL Accounts Closing and Reporting

The Senior Closing & Reporting Accountant reports to A2R Closing & Reporting Lead and works closely with Finance (Controlling, Treasury, Tax, Internal Control…), other SBS departments, Customer Service, and the A2R Account to Report team.
Main responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to

• Deliver GL monthly closing & reporting services to SBO
• Perform monthly closing activities as per Group timetable
• Prepare management, tax, legal and statutory reporting at Group and country levels
• Address operational issues and follow through to resolution in an effective and timely manner
• Deliver operational KPIs and comply with Sanofi policies and guidelines
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives

Operation

• Deliver GL monthly closing & reporting services to SBO
• Review interfaces that generate automatic postings to ensure that they have been correctly booked, AR & AP sub-ledgers are closed and close Balance Sheet and P&L accounts
• Request & collect all recurring and non recurring items, reconcile accounts and post Manual Journal Entries (MJE)
• Prepare management, tax, legal and statutory reporting at Group and country levels
• Prepare ad-hoc reports and analysis
• Contribute to business reviews
• Execute in compliance of processes, transactions and reports with Sanofi accounting policies, internal control guidelines and audit / SOX requirements
• Complete all activities as per the global Core Model and operational KPIs
• Develop expert level knowledge of the activities in scope as well as local knowledge of entities in scope and become a super-user
• Pro-actively anticipate operational issues and coach junior analysts
• Build, document and transfer A2R Core Model process knowledge (Level 6/7) relating to GL monthly closure and reporting activities

Continous improvement

• Identify process improvement opportunities through elimination of redundant activities
• Participate in process automation initiatives and ensure seamless adoption and transition

About you

Functional

• Knowledge of IFRS and local GAAPs (essential)
• Hands on expertise in GL accounting, closing & reporting processes and activities (essential)
• Knowledge of GL accounting and reporting (essential)
• Experience in working within a Business Services organization (advantageous)
• Good business acumen (advantageous)
• Strong problem solving, deductive and analytical skills (advantageous)

Technical

• Hands-on experience of SAP FICO (essential) and other accounting related IT tools (e.g. Trintech Cadency) (advantageous)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and expertise of MS Excel (essential)

Interpersonal

• Ability to interact with internal and external clients in a professional manner (essential)
• Team player, able to work collaboratively transversally and with A2R front line teams with an end to end mindset (essential)
• Good communication skills (advantageous)
• Attentive to customer needs and feedback (advantageous)

Leadership

• Ability to organize, prioritize and structure the tasks for oneself and direct reports (essential)
• Attentive to detail and works with precision (advantageous)
• Action oriented, delivery driven, change agent (advantageous)
• Role model / coach to junior analysts (advantageous)

Background and Experience

• Graduate degree in accounting or finance (essential)
• Good and proven experience in GL accounting preferably in an international multicultural environment (essential)
• Fluent in English (essential)
• Knowledge of other European languages (advantageous)

When joining our team, you will experience

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
• An attractive, market-oriented salary and cafeteria benefits
• Flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 60% of time from home / where you can easily schedule your office days
• Work from an “Office of the Year 2020” finalist office
• Collective life and accident insurance
• Yearly medical check-up
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks
• Your own career path within Sanofi
• Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
• Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)

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• Deliver GL monthly closing & reporting services to SBO
• Perform monthly closing activities as per Group timetable
• Prepare management, tax, legal and statutory reporting at Group and country levels
• Address operational issues and follow through to resolution in an effective and timely manner
• Deliver operational KPIs and comply with Sanofi policies and guidelines
• Participate in continuous improvement initiative