Accounting Analyst

Job title: Accounting Analyst

• Location: Bogotá

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 an Accounting Analyst within our A2R Team you will be 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.  

In this position you will provide support and other services globally. In the Account to Report (A2R) Business Services centre will be covering the following areas of the process: Assets Management, interco accounting, cash accounting, GL accounts closing and reporting. Also, you will be working closely with Finance (Controlling, Treasury, Tax, Internal Control...), other SBS departments, Customer Service and A2R teams in regions / countries.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

• 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

o Review interfaces that generate automatic postings to ensure that they have been correctly booked, AR & AP sub-legers are closed and close Balance Sheet and P&L accounts

o Request & collect all recurring and non-recurring items, reconcile accounts and post Manual Journal Entries (MJE)

o 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 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.

• Identify process improvement opportunities through elimination of redundant activities

• Participate in process automation initiatives and ensure seamless adoption and transition

About you

• Experience: Experience in working within a Business Services organization, good business acumen, strong problem solving, deductive and analytical skills, 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, attentive to customer needs and feedback.
• Soft & Hard skills: Knowledge of IFRS and local GAAPs, hands on expertise in GL accounting, closing & reporting processes and activities, knowledge of GL accounting and reporting. Hands-on experience of SAP FICO and other accounting related IT tools, knowledge of Microsoft Office and expertise of MS Excel, ability to interact with internal and external clients in a professional manner, team player, able to work collaboratively transversally and with A2R front line teams with an end to end mindset, good communication skills (advantageous), attentive to customer needs and feedback (advantageous).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is required.
• Languages: English level B2

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. 

External Job Description

Job title: Junior Financial Analyst

• Location: Bogotá

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.

The ContOps Transversal organization is embarking on a remarkable journey of transformation, with the ambitious goal of becoming a best-in-class Finance organization. In this journey, the Finance Analyst plays a key role in ensuring daily business continuity while supporting the harmonization of financial processes across the Americas perimeter. The Finance Analyst is responsible for executing operational controlling activities, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements, and contributing to the continuous improvement of financial processes within the Transversal Spend team.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

• Support month-end and quarter-end closing activities

• Prepare accruals and journal entries. Manage master data in SAP and TM1

• Assist in WBS creation and PO monitoring

• Prepare basic financial analysis and account reconciliations

• Support financial reporting preparation for Controllers and Finance Analysts

• Maintain and update master data in financial systems

• Support SOX compliance and complete monthly controlling checklists

• Participate in continuous improvement activities

• Ad hoc tasks and projects as assigned

About you

The incumbent is expected to have solid knowledge of controlling processes and demonstrate the ability to execute financial operations with accuracy and efficiency.

• Experience: 0-2 years in finance environment or recent graduate. Basic knowledge of SAP, interest in the pharmaceutical industry, basic knowledge of automation tools (e.g., Power Automate, VBA macros, Python), eagerness to learn and apply automation in financial processes, interest in digital transformation and continuous improvement through technology

• Soft & Hard skills: Proactivity and initiative, attention to detail, strong teamwork capabilities, willingness to learn, organizational skills, analytical mindset and problem-solving orientation, strong attention to detail for data accuracy and analysis, curiosity to understand financial drivers and business context. Written and oral communication skills, advanced excel skills, ability to learn multiple systems.

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

• Languages: English level B2

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. 

PursueProgress. 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. 

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