Cost Accounting Manager

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Cost Accounting Manager

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a member of the Global Cost Accounting team that is responsible for the consolidation and analysis of the global inventory and cost of sales. The Manager will also perform the inventory accounting for certain Amgen manufacturing sites. The manager will be accountable to manage and review the work of the outsourced provider that supports this team.

Preferably, the Manager is familiar with international accounting and intercompany process and has prior cost accounting experience. Amgen has a large international footprint and does business in over 75 countries. As a global biopharmaceutical company with over $20 billion in revenue, the Company’s Cost Accounting matters include high value intangibles, mergers and acquisitions, licensing transactions, complex manufacturing, financing transactions, and research and development activities.

• Perform and review sophisticated journal entries, general ledger account analysis and reconciliation for both SAP and consolidation tool.
• Prepare and review audit schedules and answer questions from internal and external auditors.
• Preparation and review of highly developed financial schedules such as footnote, month-end flash reports, accounting memos and other ad hoc schedules, as required by the supervisor.
• May lead and review accounting control functions and reporting requirements such as: inventory reserves, pre-approval manufacturing, standard costing including absorption tests, excess capacity analysis among other.
• Special projects to improve accounting processes including digital projects.
• Consolidate, analyze and report global inventory balances by product/site and perform detailed monthly variance analysis.
• Work closely with local Finance to help execute Amgen’s operational strategy.
• Calculate and record intercompany profit-in-inventory (PII) eliminations monthly to ensure compliance with US GAAP.
• Support quarterly SOX process certification by compiling, sampling and reviewing control documentation.
• Participate in the annual standard costing process and ad hoc standard costing updates as required by the manufacturing and distribution sites.
• Actively support Amgen key business initiatives that impact Cost Accounting processes.
• Perform all assigned monthly accounting close activities including inventory, inventory reserves, pre-approval, excess capacity analysis and manufacturing variances analysis, and journal entries.
• Interact with Amgen senior and mid-level management.
• Strong internal control focus in handling business issues of significance to Corporate Accounting.
• Actively seek opportunities to streamline assigned processes and cross-train with peers.
• Assist in project management activities and ad hoc analysis as required.
• Perform inventory accounting for certain Amgen manufacturing sites.
• Will be accountable to manage and review the work of an outsourced provider that supports this team.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a candidate with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

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Master’s degree and 2 years of experience in general accounting

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Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience in general accounting

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Associate's degree and 8 years of experience in general accounting

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High school diploma/GED and 10 years of experience in general accounting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Educational background in Accounting or Finance
• Dynamic accounting/finance experience including corporate level public company experience
• Profit in Inventory (PII) Elimination process and accounting transaction experience in physical vs financial inventory flow.
• CPA, Audit, Public Accounting experience
• Experience in driving and implementing change
• Experience managing outsource partner relationship
• Experience in financial system implementatio