• Intitulé du poste : Entity Controller Consumer Healhcare France
• Lieu : Neuilly-sur-Seine (France)
• Hiring Manager : Head of Central Finance Flows and Solutions

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. 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.

Context :

With the ambition to make the CHC GBU autonomous, some new entities have been created:  

• Opella Healthcare Group which is the new Entrepreneur of the CHC organization supporting risks, supporting central costs and remunerating IPO ,
• Opella Healthcare International is which Opella Healthcare RDC : Pharmaceutical Establishment manufacturer, Importer, Distributor, Depositary.
• Opella Healthcare France which is the France distributor of CHC products.

Entity controller main responsibilities:  

• Analyze the financial statement of French CHC entities and provide qualitative analyze to the Head of Finance on monthly basis before package submission .
• Review, validate and provide expertise on accounting treatment for complex flows, contracts

• French statutory account : support the process and do consistency checks

• Support Standard cost process for Opella Healthcare International .
• Ensure compliance of processes, transactions and reports with Sanofi accounting policies, internal control guidelines and audit / SOX requirements  

• Manage the relationship with key stakeholders
  • Work closely with GBS stream lead ( A2R , S2V and CI2C ) in order to have a global view of financial statement .
  • Implement strong collaboration with GBS streams (A2R, CI2C and S2V) ,with Head of Finance Performance, with Supply chain and customer service, with Commercial operations….

• Support the Head of finance on flows activity by leading projects (divertissement, continuous process improvement ….)

Continuous improvement:

• Identify process improvement opportunities through elimination of redundant activities and potential automation

Main professional relationships:

Ensure strong and efficient transversal relationships with other stakeholders, mainly:

• Tax and TP Corporate, regional or country tax managers
• IFSA team
• GBS, SBS Accounting
• Supply Chain
• Treasury
• ITS
• Internal Control
• Ethics & Business Integrity
• Finance performance team
• Procurement
• BPO partner

Skills

• Technical expertise in finance , Strong analytical skills and strength of proposal
• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills to resolve issues in a manner that is customer oriented. Focused on business-value, with a flexible and versatile approach that takes into account and adjusts to develop recommendations that reflect shifting business priorities.
• Strong process knowledge with ability to redefine processes from end to end to support Business needs
• Transversal mindset and ability to work across processes, geographies, languages, cultures, business maturity levels
• Strong Knowledge in project management, including overall IT system aspects, demonstrate ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution
• High level of Interpersonal/ communication skills with an ability to communicate and present at different levels of the organization
• Team management: Strong leadership, autonomy and management skills: management of resources required ensuring timely availability of resources that have right skills, experience and capability.
• Fluent in English and French

Background

• Finance equivalent or Master Degree in Business Administration.
• 10 to 15 years of experience in project leadership or support functions roles and more than 5 years direct work experience in a project management capacity (including process development/execution).
• Must have experience of working with key stakeholders across functions up to Executive level.
• International background with exposure to multicultural environments.