FRA Head

Job Description

130+. This is the number of countries you will be cooperating with.

Sandoz Romania contributes to improving patients' accessibility to high quality treatment, through innovative solutions, in the conditions of increasing healthcare needs.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Primary point of contact for FRA matters including delivery of service levels and key performance indicators (KPI’s) as defined by FRA process
• Lead month end close activities including the analysis, review, and validation of financial statements, to include conducting cross-function analysis meetings with key stakeholders to review financial performance and balance sheet details
• Drive conclusions on complex accounting issues, implementation of reporting projects and/or policies, and continuous process improvement throughout the accounting and reporting cycle
• Ensures adherence to the Financial Control Manual (FCM) and coordination of remediation activities as identified through internal or external reviews
• Direct and indirect management of onsite and offshore FRA team ensuring productivity, quality, and customer-service standards are met
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including senior finance colleagues, both internal and external accounting authorities/auditors, and Division and Group FRA, and ensure timely communication with stakeholders as questions or issues arise
• Role models a leadership style, which is inclusive, proactive, respectful, and results driven
• Manages a diverse team (on/ off-shore) to deliver a high-performing organization and drive improvements/standard solutions, while driving a high degree of collaboration
  
  
  

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Minimum Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and/or Finance (CPA or Chartered Accountant is preferred)
• Romanian & English
• Minimum of 8+ years’ accounting experience, preferably in Big 4 public accounting, healthcare industry or large corporation with shared service concept
• Significant experience in financial accounting and reporting, auditing, and financial process engineering, with record of strong control focus and driving / delivering change initiatives
• Thought leader on complex accounting topics (Revenue, inventory, divestitures, and acquisitions) and in-depth knowledge finance processes and infrastructure to provide value-add
  
  
  

Why consider Sandoz?

500 million patients were touched by Sandoz generic and biosimilar medicines in 2020 and while we’re proud of this, we know there is more we could do to continue to help pioneer access to medicines for people around the world.

How will we do this? We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Sandoz!

Imagine what you could do at Sandoz!

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We are Sandoz, a Novartis Division. Join us and help reimagine medicine.

Division

SANDOZ

Business Unit

COMMERCIAL OPS EUROPE SZ

Country

Romania

Work Location

Bucharest

Company/Legal Entity

SDZ ROU

Functional Area

Audit & Finance

Job Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No

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