Sr. Manager, Record to Report Lead

The Role:
Come help Moderna scale! This is an exciting new role and opportunity to be a key member of the International Finance team supporting a dynamic and high growth organization that is radically changing the biotechnology industry.

Record to Report Lead is a key member of the International finance community, accountable for end to end record to report team with responsibility starting from, journal entry processing, inventory, fixed asset accounting, payroll accounting, bank statement processing, month end close and corporate reporting per USGAAP principles through, local GAAP adjustments, preparation of statutory financial statements, statistical reporting. The role will focus on building team, processes and systems to continuously enhance colleagues’ experience.

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:

On Operational Excellence:

• Accountable for team of Country Accounting Leads (Chief Accountants) responsible for US GAAP accounting but also building US to Local GAAP bridge adjustments

• Preparation of statutory financial statements for International entities in scope

• Front facing internal and external auditors responsible for auditing financial statements submitted to local tax authorities as per statutory deadlines

• Cooperation of work with Deloitte as advisory body in respect of statutory deliverables

• Coordination of EY audits

• Close collaboration with Corporate Legal team to meet secretarial and legal requirements per jurisdiction

• Supports team in day-to-day activities incl.  Month-End-Close for both US and statutory GAAP purposes, monitors local country business environment and makes sure all policies and procedures are up to date with team fully trained. Manage international month-end close process, including: journal entries, account reconciliations and variance analysis while ensuring policies and procedures are followed to comply with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley

• Submit timely monthly and quarterly financial reporting deliverables to the SEC team in the US

• Review of statistical reports per jurisdiction

• Perform balance sheet reviews and report to the US SEC reporting team

• Support various internal and external activities including SOX and internal audits

• In alignment with global process owners supports definition, design, maintenance and continuous improvement of global process standards (e.g.  BSR recon methodology, Fixed Asset). Specifies country specifics for local accounting, , business requirements and incorporates into global standards

• Oversees collaboration with Digital to configure parallel ledgers is SAP to correctly reflect statutory requirements of 15 entities (e.g. FA subledgers)

• Oversees historical cleanup exercise to correctly reflect financials (banks, FX variances, BSR reconciliations)

• Responsible for preparing standard global and country-specific operational procedures and documentation, in alignment with Global Process Owners

• anticipates and plays a key role in the implementation of finance and accounting systems and applications supporting end to end process e.g. SAP upgrades, Blackline

• Accountable for delivery of end to end RtR activities as per agreed KPIs related to quality, efficiency and effectiveness. That includes processing of all US GAAP and local GAAP accounting transactions for general accounting, fixed asset accounting, inventory, payroll accounting, bank statements

• Oversees account reconciliations completion as per corporate policies

• Responsible for all internal controls and SOX requirements within the team and process. Monitors and escalates all exceptions to ensure full compliance with policies and procedures

• Participates in key projects tied to new Legal Entity, RFPs, new business model changes, Technological Transformation and Digitization (Odyssey)

• Continuously monitor colleagues’ satisfaction and act as point of escalation and resolution for the team

• Identify and drive continuous improvement and standardization opportunities, industry leading practices and cross skilling initiatives, specifically within R2R area

• Other duties as needed includ