A2R Senior Tax Accountant

Job description

A2R Senior Tax Accountant

·  Location: Budapest hub
·  Up to 50 % Remote working
·  Job type: Full Time

About the job

Sanofi Business Services (SBS), one of the 4 pillars of Sanofi’s Business Transformation organization, is setting up a new captive Business Services center in Budapest to provide Finance & Accounting (Account-to-Report, Customer-Invoicing-to-Cash) as well as Employee oriented (Employee Experience) services.

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

·  Assets Management
·  Tax Accounting
·  Treasury accounting
·  GL accounts closing and reporting
·  Interco CoE

The purpose of this role is to:

·  Deliver tax accounting services to SBS
·  Manage the accounting and reporting of tax accounts
·  Perform, supervise tax calculations including deferred tax and prepare tax returns
·  Manage external relations
·  Address operational issues and follow through to resolution in an effective and timely manner
·  Deliver, monitor operational KPIs and comply with Sanofi policies and guidelines
·  Participate in continuous improvement initiatives

The Tax Senior Accountant reports to Tax Manager and works closely with Finance (Controlling, Treasury, Tax, Internal Control...), other SBS departments, Customer Service and the A2R team.

About you

Key Responsibilities

·  Deliver tax accounting services to SBS
·  Reconcile tax accounts, analyze and solve discrepancies
·  Perform, tax calculations including deferred tax and prepare tax returns
·  Manage external relations including tax authorities’ queries or audits
·  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 A2R Core Model process knowledge (Level 6/7) relating to tax accounting activities

Continuous improvement

·  Identify process improvement opportunities through elimination of redundant activities
·  Participate in process automation initiatives and ensure seamless adoption and transition
·  Identify existing process gap(s) and possible improvement opportunities

Organization

Head of Account to Report Service Line

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A2R Tax Manager

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A2R Tax Senior Accountant

Pharmacovigilance

Identifies, collects, and reports to the Affiliate Pharmacovigilance Unit, according to the relevant local Pharmacovigilance procedures, all the adverse events as well as all the safety information concerning the Sanofi Group’s products, within one working day.

Quality

If the employee receives notice related at quality complaint for Sanofi portfolio products (including medical devices and supplements) shall report it to the Quality Department in accordance with local procedure, within 1(one) business day from receipt.

Compliance

·  Acts in line with all ethical & compliance rules of the Group
·  Assesses financial and business risks
·  Critical risk report to line (n+1 manager) in case of significant risk
·  Acts as a role model, in line with all ethical & compliance rules of the Group and promotes the highest ethical & compliance standards
·  Takes full responsibility for ensuring that corporate ethical standards, facilitating access to training and information, enabling a culture of ethical leadership and ensuring there are no compliance breaches through intent or misunderstandings/lack of knowledge
·  Takes personal accountability for understanding how to work in an ethical and compliant way
·  Highlights and, if necessary, escalates the actions or behaviors of internal and external people when they are not appropriate
·  Asks questions to colleagues, peers or manager when not sure of the appropriate way to complete tasks, to find a solution and helps others when required
·  Pro-actively seeks to understand and find ways to develop understanding of the Sanofi code of ethics, local relevant associations’ code of practice and internal control standards
·  It is mandatory for the employee to attend the organized ethics and compliance trainings, to perform the assigned eLearning modules and to fully comply to all Group standards in this regard

HSE (Health, Safety & Environmental) Responsibilities

·  Comply with all Sanofi HSE Corporate Policy & Requirements as well as local procedures and traffic regulations
·  Respects the occupational health procedures and follow the instruction given by the occupational doctors 
·  Promptly reports to the direct manager, local HSE and HR, any occupational accident, incident, near miss, illness, potential or real dangerous or emergency situations which may have consequences on the safety of the working places or the health whether it be a bodily injury or car damage and participate in the investigations with the objective of introducing measures to prevent reoccurrences and ensure that risks are adequately assessed and mitigated
·  Inspects the working premises in his/her responsibility and proposes measures to correct, reduce or eliminate the dangerous situations
·  Participates in training and simulation exercises regarding accidental environment contamination, fire prevention and other emergencies

Performance Management

·  Performance evaluation process

The evaluation process is defined, in accordance with the Company rules and labour regulations registered in the Company’s Human resources performance Management system (Workday)and respecting the company strategic priorities.

·  Performance Management Criteria

The quantitative & qualitative objectives and priorities (group, country and/or individual performance indicators) are discussed, set and mutually agreed upon each year between direct Manager and Employee.

The qualitative objectives are built around:

·  The company values (Integrity, Courage, Transversal Collaboration, Innovation) that should be respected unconditionally
·  The Lead Competencies: Constructed around the framework of 4 essential behaviours
·  Push to go beyond the level operated up until now
·  Act in the interest of our patients and customers
·  Act instead of waiting to be told what to do
·  Put the interests of the organization ahead of own or those of the team
·  The provisions of the Employee Manual must be respected unconditionally

Education and experience

·  Graduate degree in accounting or finance (essential)
·  Good and proven experience in GL/TAX accounting preferably in an international multicultural environment (essential)
·  Fluent in English (essential)
·  Knowledge of other European languages (advantageous)

Expected skills

Functional

·  Hands on expertise in corporate tax accounting 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

·  Knowledge of Microsoft Office and expertise of MS Excel (essential)
·  Hands-on experience of SAP Accounting Modules (essential) and other accounting related IT tools (e.g., Trintech Cadency, Blackline, etc.)
·  (advantageous)
·  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 (essential)
·  Attentive to customer needs and feedback (essential)

Leadership

·  Ability to organize, prioritize and structure the tasks for oneself and direct reports (essential)
·  Attentive to detail and works with precision (advantageous)
·  Action oriented, delivery driven, change agent (advantageous)
·  Role model / coach to junior analysts (advantageous)

When joining our team, you will experience:

·  An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
·  An attractive, market-oriented salary and cafeteria benefits
·  Flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 60% of time from home / where you can easily schedule your office days
·  Work from an "Office of the Year 2020" finalist office
·  Collective life and accident insurance
·  Yearly medical check-up
·  An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks
·  Your own career path within Sanofi
·  Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
·  Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)

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.

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