(Contract) Sr. Accountant, Intercompany/Inventory Accounting

The Role:
Moderna is seeking a Senior Accountant, Intercompany Accounting, to join the Record to Report team. This role will primarily be responsible for making sure all intercompany transactions are appropriately posted (product, non-product, loans etc.) performing intercompany reconciliations and supporting consolidation team in appropriate true-ups, elimination entries. The role will also focus on performing various control and reporting activities, standardizing the intercompany process and implementing intercompany process solutions to continuously enhance performance and efficiency.

The successful candidate must be comfortable challenging the status quo, driving change, managing through uncertainty, and supporting a high growth fast paced organization.

We work collaboratively as a team, we boldly strive for excellence, we are constantly curious, and we are relentless in our pursuit of the balance between efficiency, effectiveness, and controls and compliance. We are committed to ongoing process improvements and to providing accurate, timely and insightful financial information to our senior management and internal stakeholders.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Prepare and review Transfer Pricing entries, aligned with the transfer pricing tax team

• Perform Intercompany goods flow analysis/adjustments; COGS tracking

• Participate in the implementation of intercompany systems and new processes

• Maintain intercompany accounts current, ensuring regular reconciliations and settlements

• Reconcile manual Intercompany accounts as well as subledger accounts

• Ensure all intercompany transactions are supported with valid documentation and agreements

• Make sure all intercompany invoices and transactions (recharges, true-ups, loans etc.) are posted in the system per US GAAP and country accounting and tax regulations

• Perform intercompany reconciliations, investigate differences, prepare adjustment entries and post manual journal entries in SAP ledgers

• Perform various control activities incl. SOX to ensure that transactions and journal entries meet required standards

• Support Intercompany Accounting Lead with co-definition of global intercompany process standards. Train business partners in the use of those standards when conducting intercompany transactions

• Identify and drive continuous improvement and standardization opportunities, industry leading practices and cross skilling initiatives across MIBS

• Other duties as needed including support within end-to-end record to report and initiatives

• Collaborates with various internal stakeholders to identify all intercompany business transactions and ensure all of those are appropriately recorded in accounting records per US GAAP and local accounting standards

• Prepares various analysis for stakeholders such as business teams or function operations (e.g. intercompany out of balances)

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance and/or accounting

• 4+ years’ experience in accounting, intercompany processes in a shared services or BPO environment preferably in Life Sciences/Health Care industry

• Solid organizational skills and ability to balance multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

• Team player with strong management skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for communication to internal customers and external vendors

• Ability to own/manage respective responsibilities and work with limited daily direction

• Proactive and solutions-oriented with a strong service mindset

• Experience with financial systems including SAP, Blackline and Microsoft Suite of products

• Excellent English skills, both written and verbal. Additional languages are a plus

• A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless and Curious

Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work.

We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
• Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Educational resources
• Savings and investments
• Location-specific perks and extras!

The benefits