Job Description

Intercompany COE Operations Lead

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Interco is a complex environment with many departments involved, different solutions and different sub-process leading the need to focus on:

• Increase automation
• Optimize process
• Centralize master data
• Build a robust Governance
• Accordingly and in line with best practices, Sanofi decided to create an integrated interco Center of Excellence (CoE) combining a deep knowledge in business processes, technical expertise and software delivery with a passion for user experience.
• This role is reporting to the Interco CoE Head.
• The role will have the overall responsibility to lead the operational team in charge of all transactional activities ensuring high quality, on time & controlled processes.
• This role is located in the captive and part of the A2R organization within the Sanofi Business Services (SBS) organization. A2R is an end-to-end process organization that consolidates the following activities: Fixed assets, Intercompany Accounting, Bank Accounting, General Ledger Accounting and closing, Cost Accounting, Tax accounting, Financial and Statutory Reporting, Master Data.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Delivery service:

• Ensure issuing invoices, booking, settlements and reconciliation of Interco Services

• Major rebilling\xe2\x80\x99s calculation
• Major processing & Booking in the system
• Approval Major & Minor requests in the system
• Process non-system-based Major/Minor requests
• Ensure issuing invoices, booking, and reconciliation of Interco Manual Interco product flow & reconcile automated Interco product flows

• Book Interco product invoices payable/receivables (Debit/Credit notes)
• Daily review, support identification root cause and support on the resolution automatic flow interface failures
• Daily review Open Items /Clearings/Clear Purchase orders with invoice
• Book accruals product (only due to cut-off/incoterms issues, Goods in Transit, not invoiced automated product flow)
• Perform month-end closing & Reporting\'s on Interco data

• Month-end close

• Reconciliation interco transactions
• Reporting in Corporate Reporting tool (adjust figures, analyze discrepancies and submission)
• Ageing analysis
• Settlements

• Prepare & Run payment Services & product Invoices
• Declaration in netting system
• Clearing services invoices in account payable
• Clearing product invoices in account payable
• Prepare & book Dividends & Withholding tax with Retained teams collaboration
• Contribute to external and Tax Audits

• Internal control documentation ensuring compliance and SOX standard adherence
• Prepare external audit documentation
• Ensure KPI are reached
• Ensure an agile program delivery that enables to build the right solutions that deliver business value swiftly and define key metrics for sourcing organization effectiveness

Stakeholders\xe2\x80\x99 Management

• Cultivates strategic partnerships: Internal control, Retained A2R Team, IFSA, Corporate Tax and Finance Operations
• Sets up close relationships with local stakeholders when needed to allow smooth issue resolution
• Set up close relationship within the organization (Continuous Improvement , Other Operations Leads and Technology & automation) to provide improvements in the process & Solutions to secure an End to End optimized & efficient process.

People Management

• Manage the Operational team based in the location position.
• Gives visibility and communicates on the transactional interco activities
• Sets objectives for his/her staff and assesses the contributions during interviews
• Develops team skillset to adapt to evolving roles in the COE coming from new technologies and changes in organization
• Oversees hiring process and manages career path for his/her team
• Creates a culture of cooperation, performance and teamwork across Operational Interco CoE team members, especially between other Interco CoE members and ensure a smooth interface to the relevant stakeholders outside A2R.

Geographic scope

• Intercompany transactions for all JPAC/Greater China affiliates with other affiliates.
• The intercompany transactions for Latin-American affiliates will be managed by Captive in Bogota and the intercompany transactions for European, North America will be managed by Captive in Budapest.

Sanofi Behaviors and Skills

This position is required to demonstrate behaviors such as Stretch, Put the interest of the organization, Act in the interest of our patients and customers and Take Action. During the interview we will also be asking for examples of skills such as Strategic Thinking, Result Orientation, People Leadership (if applicable), Relationship and Influence.

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