Business Analysis & Controlling Analyst

Business Analysis & Controlling Analyst

• Location : Virginia, Brisbane
• Hybrid work environment
• Job type: Permanent, Full-time

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.

Our Team:

Reporting to the Head of Finance CHC, the Business Analysis & Controlling Analyst is an integral member of the Financial Planning team offering a dynamic environment, exposure to senior stakeholders across multiple functions, development opportunities and making an impact on strategic business planning.

Main Responsibilities:

Bringing your background in Accounting, ideally within a large matrix organisation, and your high-level communication skills to deliver the following key pillars of responsibilities:

Analysis, Controlling and Business Partnering

• Taking ownership of preparing the P&L, ensure data is accurate and to provide decision support analysis for the local leadership team
• Manage financial planning processes to build aligned and robust plans to support the strategic intent of the business
• Banking and closing month end- closing for sales, headcount, P&L, data quality in systems with adequate controls in place
• PEX management of supporting functions and headcount
• Provide on-time and accurate monthly and YTD information to the Head of Financial Performance in relation to profit and loss P&L and head count versus performance.  This includes clear explanations and analysis of monthly performance issues ensuring a ‘no surprises’ environment
• Ensure business reports are created on-time and with accuracy, in compliance with the reporting calendar issued by Corporate
• Partner with A2R to understand Balance Sheet balances, provisions and movements. Ensure alignment and that topics are pro-actively shared and resolved
• Drive the rationalization and standardization of management reporting’s to increase efficiency
• Provide ad-hoc analysis, leveraging finance network and available information

Manage forecast and budget process

• Manage the annual business plan including all recurring forecasting
• Operate as the interface between local finance team and Global BA&C team in the communication of detailed guidelines, key milestones and the launch of budget and forecasting cycle for local finance and business teams
• Coordinate with Business managers the cost forecast: run of scenarios based on Global guidelines and ambitions, prepare the reviews with regional finance teams, ensure consistency of information and data, identify risks and opportunities
• Identify and perform master data and hypothesis (FX) updates in system, ensure data consistency in the forecasting tool, and provide technical support to local teams during budget and forecast exercises - in collaboration with the COE Boost team
• Check consistency of the consolidated local inputs, provide budget and forecast local snapshot and communicate country budget and forecast - in collaboration with the involved stakeholders

Masterdata & Finance tools support

• Co-ordinate master data management via offshore COE (cost center, my TP, profit center, …)
• Ensure maintenance of allocations of OPEX based on agreed SLA’s and guidelines from central finance teams - in SAP and local planning systems
• Support local finance and business teams in case of data inconsistencies and questions in systems and reporting
• Continuous focus increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the total finance team, including automation and transition of tasks to COE

About You:

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Finance and Accounting

Experience and Skills:

• Ideally have experience in Consumer Healthcare or FMCG Industries and/or from within a large multi-national organisation
• Technical skills: High acumen in managing financial systems (SAP, TM1) and Excel/ Microsoft suite
• Strong rigor and ability to multi-task, manage and prioritise deadlines
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative and highly proactive attitude
• Attention to detail and top analytical skills with the ability to combine and present complex information in a simple manner
• Ability to interact and communicate appropriately with numerous stakeholders cross-functionally

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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