Senior Manager Accounting Europe

工作内容

BeiGene continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

General Description

We are looking for a Senior Finance Professional to join our European finance team. This is a key position for an experienced, ambitious finance professional who is motivated to contribute to setting up the finance function as BeiGene builds out its presence in across the globe. The position will deal with a broad range of accounting and controlling topics, and FICO projects management for all our entities under our responsibility. The incumbent must bring strong US GAAP and local GAAP knowledge combined with a strong knowledge of SAP S/4 Hana. The incumbent must take the lead to deal with strategic and process enhancements as well as a hands-on approach to technical and complex accounting tasks, ensuring accurate and timely closings. Strong communication and cultural sensitivity are required to coordinate the activities of outsourced services and collaborate with colleagues in the US, Europe, and Asia. As a valuable resource to the organization the incumbent is pro-active and brings strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a non-structured environment.

Essential Functions Of The Job

• Coordinate the accounting process and lead activities for all the European (non-Swiss) entities and New Markets jointly with BeiGene’s 3rd party service providers. This includes (but is not limited to) :
• Ensure GL accuracy and completeness
• Support the monthly financial close process, ensuring all transactions are properly recorded, reviewing journal entries, account balance reconciliations and report preparation
• Prepare the quarterly closing calendar showing main cut-off and deliverables to ensure smooth and timely closings
• Track closing activities on a collaborative checklist to better coordinate accounting tasks within EU Finance Team members
• Lead execution of technical and complex SAP transactions during closing period such as tangible/intangible amortization and FX revaluation
• Ensure all payroll data prepared by outsourcing partner/Payroll Teams are accurately booked in SAP
• Supervise the closing package preparation with all components required from a compliance standpoint
• Review and analyze open items and balances in the financial records for accuracy and appropriate support, providing meaningful insights to Management and internal/external auditors
• Ensure that any manual Journal Entries are properly recorded with supporting backup in the accounting system, and align as applicable with Management, Corporate and FP&A on any adjustments needed
• Oversee the reconciliation between our US GAAP and Local GAAP ledgers, and understand the statutory adjustments and other local requirements that lead to our final Statutory Financial Statement
• Stay tuned with all changes ongoing in the BeiGene organization, and provide appropriate guidance to Business and other stakeholders on accounting processes and best practices
• Lead Finance Projects to support BeiGene initiatives to create new legal entities, such as:
  
  

Keep under control the new entities setup, by ensuring an accurate payroll integration with our third-party provider, opening required accesses to our tools and systems, coordinating with Treasury Team for bank account creation and fundings, making sure our BeiGene best practices and standards are considered and implemented to facilitate daily business and entity management. Improve our working instructions to facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer to our backup

• In collaboration with the Tax departments, coordinate and review direct and indirect tax declarations prepared by outsourcing partner
• Lead the preparation of statutory accounts for all (non-Swiss) assigned entities, ensuring appropriate communication and coordination of activities with Legal and Tax departments too
• Act as primary and main point of contact for our auditors (EY) for all our non-Swiss entities
• Drive business partners with all practical aspects of the Procure to Pay cycle to be in line with BeiGene best practices
• Manage the relationship with the local accounting outsourcing partner to ensure that reporting deliverables are provided on time and accurately, keep their billing process in line with our P2P policies
• Deal with MBC/EBS Treasury issues in SAP, and maintain good and strong relationships with our banks
• Participate in the ongoing development/establishment of accounting policies and procedures and operational strategies including the review and implementation of process and system changes
• Share best practices and provide operational assistance on Accounting and SAP questions
• Be the Finance representative for SOX compliance and management of material control audits for our non-Swiss entities - ensure the execution of any related assigned SOX controls in a timely manner
• Perform operational treasury tasks as needed such as funding, IC settlement and capital injection
• Co-ordinate, in markets where applicable, the accounting of our third-party logistics partner interacting with FP&A and Inventory Costing stakeholders as appropriate
  
  

Reports To: Senior Director Accounting Europe and New Markets

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervise 3 Entity Controllers
  
  

Computer Skills: SAP S/4 Hana, Excel, Power BI, Concur, Workday, on -line banking

Other Qualifications: Accounting/Business/Finance Bachelor degree with minimum 8 years of experience in a multinational finance environment (Big 4 and/or healthcare experience a plus), Project Management and WILLIGNESS to lead technical and complex accounting tasks, and support daily transactional and closing activities ; desire to work in a fast paced, changing (currently unstructured) environment, excellent communication skills combined with cultural sensitivity, excellent spoken/written English – any other languages a plus

Travel: Minimal

BeiGene Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communicates with Clarity
  
  

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. BeiGene does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.