Closing and Reporting Analyst - Temporal por 6 meses

• Location: Bogotá, Colombia
• Permanent, Full time

About de Job

Sanofi Business Services (SBS), one of the 4 pillars of Sanofi’s Business Transformation organization, is setting up a new captive Business Services centre in Bogotá to provide Finance & Accounting (Account-to-Report, Customer-Invoicing-to-Cash) as well as Employee oriented (Employee Experience) services to the regions USA and Latin America (except Brasil).

In addition, the Bogotá Business Services Centre will host a number of global Centres of Excellence (CoE) and provide support and other services globally.

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

• Assets Management
• Interco accounting
• Cash accounting
• GL accounts closing and reporting

The purpose of this role is to:

Attend to activities related to the SAP Shift migration project for the LATAM scope, and also provide management services to SBS (except Brasil) as per their respective Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

The Senior Analyst, GL Closing & Repporting reports to GL Closing & Reporting Lead and works closely with Finance (Controlling, Treasury, Tax, Internal Control...), other SBS departments, Customer Service and A2R teams in regions / countries.

Main responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

Operation

• Manage activities related to the SAP Shift migration project and attend regular meetings
• Ensure the proper migration of fixed assets and their harmonization across different systems or modules (classes, accounting codes, WBS, internal orders).
• Attend integration tests or mocks during migration projects
• Deliver GL monthly closing & reporting services to SBS USA and Latin America (except Brasil) for Sanofi entities within SBS perimeter as per their respective Service Level Agreements:
• 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 EE 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 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-Black Line) (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)

About you

• Experience: Good and proven experience in GL accounting preferably in an international multicultural environment (essential)
• Education: Graduate degree in accounting or finance (essential)
• Language: Fluent in english language

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary 

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

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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!