Accounting

Job title : Accounting

Job type : Permanent

Location: Mumbai

About the job 

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”. 

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”. 

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view. 

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world. 

Global Business Services (GBS) is part of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare (CHC), a team of about 400 people dedicated to improving business operations and empower teams to deliver sustainable value, accelerate simplification, innovate, and harmonize solutions through trusted partnerships. It also helps regulate and ensure next-level partnership with its diverse set of stakeholders through digital driven experiences.

The GBS mission is to contribute to CHC simplification by developing and implementing a new operating model to execute some of the financial & accounting processes (Account-to-Report, Customer-Invoicing- to-Cash, Source-to-Value, Master Data Management, among others). GBS aims to deliver efficiency by leveraging best in class methodologies and strategically contributing to CHC simplification, while driving mindset and cultural changes.

The Head of Finance Operations (HFO) India will report to the GBS Global Head of Accounts to Report

Duties & Responsibilities

• Solar P&L Reporting of Sanofi Consumer Entities in India
• Spring reporting including provision, monthly review, follow up with HR
• Co-ordination with HR towards actuarial liability, review and follow up with HR for anomalies if any. For Tax accounts actuarial activities for March closing
• Month end closing activities like calendar circulation, month end provision, analytics, TRIMM provision.
• Monthly GL reconciliations, review
• Interco Cross charge (within India affiliates) for consignment sales, services between the affiliates for Field force, marketing support and Office infrastructure/FM
• Monthly purchase reconciliations.
• Support to the Auditor for the limited review or yearend reviews. Review of Annual Accounts/financials for circulation to shareholders  
• Support on Audit committee data compilation/slides, Margin Analysis including Export margin, price volume, personnel cost.
• Annual General Meeting/investor call Q&As, split of financial data to support the queries from shareholders.
• Excel templates and deck support for Accounts Committee
• Support on sharing data to Group Auditor, internal auditor during audit
• Finance projects lead like SIGMA, ISKOL, CAIMAN, REPA.
• Chloe project- CHC P&L and Balance reporting in Solar till Chloe day

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies / Language

Describe hard and soft (behavioral) skills required for this position:

• Strong written and communication skill.  Ability to convince the stakeholders.
• Ability to work in team and get the works done from teams and from peer group.
• Multi Task approach and can deliver the result within timeline independently

Qualifications

• Graduate, Postgraduate in Finance or CA or ICMA
• At least 6-8 years of Industry experience in similar roles with added advantage from Pharmaceutical Operations

Stakeholders

• Finance Leadership Team
• Business Stakeholders, Country GMCFO
• Group Auditor
• Statutory Auditor
• Audit Committee of the Listed entity

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, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.  

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!  

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!