FINANCIAL CONTROLLER NORTH AFRICA REGION HF

Job description

Please note that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi Pasteur worldwide.
Therefore, it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you post your resume in English.
The VIE Program is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.
COMPANY:
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to human vaccines. We distribute more than 1 billion doses of vaccine per year, making it possible to vaccinate more than 500 million people across the world and save more than 3 million lives.
JOB PURPOSE:
- Contribute to GBU Vaccines Northe Africa strategy by providing financial insight and guidance
- Contribute to the achievement of GBU Vaccines objectives in North Africa as approved in the plan and the budget
- Provide financial expertise and administrative support to the GBU Vaccines team in French Speaking North Africa
- Guarantee the high quality of reporting and financial statements and compliance with local legislation and Sanofi procedures and régulations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
- Forecasts and monthly trends :
- Organize and coordinate the budget and forecasts processes
- Collect and consolidate the financial data and validate forecasts assumptions and hypothesis
- Submit the forecasts and the monthly trends in group tools
- Share the validated budgets with the team
- Monthly closing & Reporting:
- Set up a monthly local closing planning and respect the group deadlines of reporting
- Coordinate the monthly closing process with Sanofi Pharma, Zone and Corporate team
- Calculate and validate the monthly accruals
- Review and validate the analytical balances
- Coordinate the reporting in Sanofi’s tools
- Estimate a monthly landing and communicate it to the cluster & region
- Performance review :
- Contribute to provide monthly dashboards and KPI
- Analyze and comment the monthly results
- Make a deep analysis of commercial conditions and their impact on the PL and share with the team
- Alert the Management on the variances vs budget and major positive or negative impact on the PL
- Make suggestions to improve the French Speaking North Africa’s financial performance
- Assist the teams in the monitoring of receivables, DSO and stocks by country.
- Budget control :
- Coordinate the budget control and Opex monitoring with all departments
- Perform analysis of Opex by country, nature and department and share it with relevant stakeholders
- Guarantee the respect of AED process and the delegation of authority
- Provide the teams with profitability analysis and “spend better” initiatives
- Guarantee the right allocation of expenses by nature, cost center and department
- Communicate to the team a periodic expense reports
- Audit, Compliance & Internal control :
- Follow the internal audit recommendations and their implementation
- Guarantee the implementation and respect of Sanofi SOPs
- Alert the Management about any deviation and non-compliant operation
- Work in collaboration with Sanofi Internal Control department to ensure a compliant and efficient operational flow for GBU Vaccines processes. Recommend optimization actions as required.
- Ad hoc analysis :
- Support management for financial assessment and decision making on special project when applicable.
- Prepare all the financial analysis requested by Management
- Initiate benchmarking studies
- Provide Management with clear and accurate financial analysis
- Assist the medico, marketing and sales teams with projects profitability analysis and PL by project
Profil:
- Education:
- Bachelor of commerce, finance, accounting or controlling
- Related experience:
- 1-2 years of experience in a related position
- Skills :
- Fluent written and spoken French & English
- High analytical and financial modeling skills
- Excellent knowledge of computer skills (Microsoft Office tools, specific focus on advanced Excel, accounting and reporting tools : SAP, Hyperion, TM1)
- Other :
- Excellent presentation and reporting skills
- Focus on the target and strive for results
- High communication and project management skills
- Excellent organization and high capacity to work on complex projects
- Confident, respect of deadlines and commitment