General Accounting Specialist

at  Organon

Organon South Africa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Organon & Co. Inc. Organon is a brand – new independent company and publicly traded company which aspires to become the world’s leading Women’s Health Company with a global portfolio that will include biosimilars and a broad array of medicines spanning important therapeutic categories. With a footprint and bringing lifesaving medicines to more than 140 international countries. We are a Women’s Health Company that believes in a better and healthier every day for every woman! It is important as our vision states that we as Organon South Africa, contributes to woman equality, providing medicines and access to women, creating opportunities, and educating our woman as we contribute towards the upliftment within our communities and our economy.
South Africa is part of the META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa) and Finance is a critical function within the cluster commercial operations. Reporting to the South Africa Finance Controller will be the Specialist for General Accounting with main responsibility for the South Africa entities/operations. In this role, he/she will have end-to-end responsibility for the US GAAP and local GAAP results of the respective legal entity (if applicable). This includes all accounting, indirect tax, treasury and internal control related matters performed locally or through partner teams (e.g. GDO). In line with the structure, this role will also need collaborate with the various internal and external stakeholders. The finance team has an agile structure with all members of the team reporting directly to the Finance Controller. This enables flexible team settings depending on tasks, eases resource allocation, and creates development opportunities.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• A minimum of five 5 years of experience in Finance/Accounting
• Good level of MS Office applications usage and experience of SAP (key user)
• Understanding of business issues, including foreign currency impacts.
• Strong communication, organization and managerial skills,
• Team player, self-disciplined, analytic and result oriented, attentive to deadlines,
• Strong oral & written communication skills (English)
• Open-minded, pro-active, result-driven and self-organized
• Ability to take ownership
• Client-oriented, conflict resolution / problem solving
• Strong analytical skills
• Comfortable in an environment of changing technologies and processes, demonstrate flexibility to new ways of working
• Open to work in flexible and flat (no hierarchy) teams
• Ability to manage stakeholders in different locations
• Strong interpersonal skills to work and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
• Works effectively under pressure & multitasking

WHO WE ARE:

Organon delivers ingenious health solutions that enable people to live their best lives. We are a $6.5 billion global healthcare company focused on making a world of difference for women, their families and the communities they care for. We have an important portfolio and are growing it by investing in the unmet needs of Women’s Health, expanding access to leading biosimilars and touching lives with a diverse and trusted portfolio of health solutions. Our Vision is clear: A better and healthier every day for every woman.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates with a diverse background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our applicants.
If you require reasonable accommodation(s) in completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email us at staffingaadar@organon.com.

• Responsible for accurate and compliant results in the South Africa legal entities for US GAAP, local Accounting & Tax standards
• Collaborate with AtR, OtC and StS teams in GDO to ensure objectives achievement, continuity of processes and succession planning
• Ensure compliance with global and local statutory accounting policies
• Prepare and review journal entries
• Establish & manage actual cost accounting
• Monitoring of legislation changes and ensure timely implementation of required changes in SAP and accounting processes
• Preparing and closing of books on a monthly basis
• Supports Senior Specialist AT&C with external audit requirements
• Comply with monthly VAT submissions, payments, verifications, audits; Filling of objections and appeals related to VAT
• Ensure appropriate archiving of all hard copy documents incl reporting forms to ensure compliance with local legislation
• Interface with OtC teams managing impacts on financial books (sales reconciliation to 3PL, and AR monitoring)
• Perform and Review Balances Sheet Reconciliation
• Ongoing process optimization and support of new system implementations
• Fixed Assets Accounting (GAAP, Statutory & Tax), Direct / Indirect Asset Capitalization, Value & Track of Fixed Assets, Perform Asset Disposals, Obligatory physical inventory counting & tagging.