Global 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.

Global 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 join our Global Accounting team. The functional area and role location will be dependent on the needs at the time of initial interview.

Our Global Accounting team is made up of a diverse and highly skilled group of professionals who are passionate about Amgen’s mission of serving patients. Teams are in North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We also have accounting operations supported by our external business partner in India.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Interpretation – Accounting and Financial Reports

• Interpret transactions executed or proposed by business to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including performing research and partnering with Technical Accounting to develop guidance.
• Analyze financial results and provide explanations to management for the movements of Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow statements.
• Draft footnote disclosures and prepare detailed support for external reporting deliverables (10Q/10K).

Business Partnering (Commercial, Research & Development, Operations or General & Administrative)

• Work with Finance and Operational teams in performing accounting tasks and monitoring the successful execution of Month End close activities, including but not limited to review of journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Manage relationships within Finance (Financial Planning, Tax, Purchase to Pay, Treasury, Global Strategic Sourcing).
• Provide support for initiatives or projects by providing accounting guidance and identifying risks to internal controls.

Internal Controls and Compliance Process support

• Support the documentation and test of controls in support of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Certification and other control verification processes. Draft deficiency reports as applicable and drive implementation of remediation actions.
• Support Internal/External/Tax audits by timely providing backup, explaining transactions, and answering inquiries, as applicable.
• Understand and interpret Policies and Procedures to provide guidance to partners on proper application.

Process Improvement, Automation and Project Management

• Collaborate with process partners to proactively determine and implement continuous improvement opportunities that will enable an efficient and effective accounting close process.
• Engage in gaining knowledge and deploying Automation and Reporting solutions (e.g. UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Anaplan, Tableau, Alteryx, MS Teams, Smartsheet, Docusign) to reduce transactional work in favor of strategy and analysis.
• Manage special projects for which Global Accounting representation is required, including company expansion, business acquisitions and divestitures, and financial system implementations.

Vendor Services Management

• Partner closely with our External Services vendor supporting accounting operations to complete close activities and deliver quality services to Amgen.
• Engage in regular governance meetings to discuss status of activities, projects, and issue resolution. Monitor Service Level Metrics and manage expectations and deliverables.

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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 an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

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Master’s degree and 2 years of accounting experience

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Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of accounting experience

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Associate’s degree and 8 years of accounting experience

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High school diploma / GED and 10 years of accounting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ Years of Experience in accounting, audit or financial reporting
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Comprehensive accounting knowledge on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting
• Master’s in Business Administrati