Finance Business Partner – Global Medical

Job Title: Finance Business Partner – Global Medical

Location: Cambridge, MA; Morristown, NJ; Swiftwater, PA

About the Job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

The “Finance Business Partner – Global Medical” actively contributes to the strategy and execution of clinical studies and medical tactic spending in his/her perimeter by providing an end-to-end Finance support to the Global/US Project Teams and other team members, ensuring accurate costing and evaluation of risks & opportunities, while providing reliable input for Oncology, Neurology, and Medical Center of Excellences portfolio decisions. In addition, he/she will support Clinical Trials Consolidation/Financial Reporting, OneCASA Finance Admin and partner closely with the Head of Finance, Medical Affairs Specialty Care on Medical Transformation initiatives. This position reports to the Global Head of Finance, Medical Affairs Specialty Care (SPC).

The position offers both a Global and North America region overview of medical investment as well as opportunities to support strategic projects.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

MAIN RESPONSIBLITIES

He/she will have financial responsibilities for the strategic medical affairs Oncology, Neurology and Center of Excellences portfolios (US/HQ) which consists of operational expense costs of approximately 170M EUR annually and growing. For this, he/she will:

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Oversee forecast submission including headcount, clinical studies, and program related expenses (rolling forecast, C1, C2, Budget and Long-Range Plan (LRP))

• Communicate and distribute financial forecast to business partners

• Coordinate with Controlling Operations on financial targets, review/validate submission data, generate reports/presentations for senior leaders

• Assist the Global Medical Affairs team in the follow-up financials and optimization if/when needed

• Provide technical and analytical support for numerous projects and analyses to support achievement of SPC Medical Affairs financial goals and business objectives, including contributions to different work streams aiming at OPEX optimization and reporting solutions

• Support respective TAs in the critical steps of global reporting and consolidation, in coordination with the FP&A finance team of SPC for all major finance exercises (actuals variance analysis, rolling forecast, budget and long-range planning)

Month-End Close:

• Identify study/tactic risks and opportunities from Finance perspectives

• Partner with Controlling Operations CoE (Controlling Ops) on month end close reporting and analytic requirements (actuals vs budget, RF, C1 and C2). including operational expense and HC

• Provide stakeholders with clear explanation on drivers of their deviations from planned forecast

• Responsible for performing/overseeing key month-end close accounting activities and reporting requirements for TAs supported in compliance with all applicable accounting standards, statutory requirements and corporate reporting requirements and timelines.

• Responsible for overseeing/managing the day-to-day medical operations expenses, including review and approval of purchase orders of project related initiatives (until transition to Controlling Operations COE) and outsourced services according to Sanofi governance and compliance processes

Clinical Trial Consolidation/Reporting

• Responsible for working in close relationship with SPC Medical Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to consolidate clinical study forecasts. Coordination of consolidating clinical study forecasts and reconciling between systems

• Report generation to be shared with Global He