Senior Financial Analyst

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 Senior Financial Analyst within our Financial Operations, you’ll will provide controlling support to their local Business Units, including preparation of budgets and forecasts (Budget / F1 / F2 / Quarterly Landings / Rolling Forecast), monthly closings (sales & expense reviews, scorecards), project approval and tracking, and other financial planning & analysis activities on a timely basis.

Main responsibilities:

• Position may be responsible for operational controlling activities for sales/gross to net and/or operating expenses
• Partner closely with Finance Business Partners across GBUs, to provide cohesive and seamless support to Business Leaders
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly closing and share monthly results with Finance Business Partners as well as Budget Owners
• Prepare monthly commentary to explain variances between actual results and/or budget and forecasts
• Ensure business owners are executing the budgeted plan, including tracking actuals, approval of projects & providing direction to business owners
• Develop Opex and headcount forecasts for designated areas, in partnership with FBPs and Budget Owners
• Identify risks and opportunities that affect the achievement of these forecasts
• Track headcount on a monthly basis and compare to budgeted and forecasted vacancy rates, including trend analysis for key drivers of change
• Track all assumptions built into budget and forecasts
• Approve project spend and ensuring projects are budgeted properly, challenging where necessary 
• Continuously challenge legacy ways of working, status quo; identify gaps, and recommend new ways of working
• Increase Financial and business acumen 
• Ensure compliance with pertinent SOX controls 
• Ensure compliance with all internal control requirements 
• Promote efficiencies and improved ways of working across designated region and ensure best practice sharing 
• Educate client groups on all aspects of financial policies and processes to ensure compliance 
• Support all key Finance initiatives
• Ad hoc projects and analyses as required 

About you

Experience : 3+ years of diversified financial controlling experience

Technical skills : Advanced excel skills, must be able to download data and use pivot tables, V-look ups, macros, etc.

Preferred :

• MBA and/or CPA
• Pharmaceutical and public accounting experience
• Commercial Finance and Gross to Net
• TM1 and SAP experience

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

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.

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.

 

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.

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting or via our movie We are Sanofi

Why Sanofi

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.