Global Accounting Senior Associate

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Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Global Accounting Senior Associate

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support the accounting department by performing a variety of financial tasks including bookkeeping, preparation of financial statements, and compliance with accounting regulations.

• Support and understand collaboration, partnership and investment transactions executed or proposed by business to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including analyzing shared revenues/costs, resolving collaboration issues, and performing research and partnering with Treasury, Financial Planning, Business Development and Technical Accounting
• Analysis and Interpretation – Accounting and Financial Reports
• Analyze financial results and provide explanations to management for the movements of Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow statements
• Prepare detailed support for external reporting deliverables (10Q/10K)
• Work with Finance and Operational teams in performing accounting tasks and monitoring the successful processing of Month End close activities, including but not limited to preparation and review of journal entries and account reconciliations
• Develop strong relationships within Finance (Financial Planning, Tax, Treasury) and Business Development
• Internal Controls and Compliance Process support
• Support the documentation and testing of controls in support of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Certification and other control verification processes
• Support Internal/External/Tax audits by timely providing backup, explaining transactions, and answering inquiries, as applicable
• Process Improvement, Automation and Project Management
• Collaborate with process team members to determine and support the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities that will enable an efficient and effective accounting close process
• Obtain knowledge in Automation and Reporting solutions, including deployment, (e.g. UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Anaplan, Tableau, Alteryx, MS Teams, Smartsheet, Docusign) to reduce transactional work in favor of strategy and analysis.
• Partner closely with our External Services vendor supporting accounting operations to complete close activities and deliver quality services to Amgen.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Accounting

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Accounting experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Accounting experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Accounting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in accounting, audit or financial reporting
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Proficient in usage of Microsoft Office Applications
• Comprehensive accounting knowledge on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting
• Strong written, verbal communication, and presentation skills and be able to bridge cultural differences
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently, to multi-task, and to establish priorities
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Project management skills
• Experience with ERP applications (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
• General knowledge of automation initiatives

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth