Sr. Manager Global Cost Accounting

Career CategoryFinanceJob DescriptionJoin 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
Sr. Manager Global Cost Accounting
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join Amgen’s mission: To Serve Patients. Amgen is one of the world’s largest independent biotechnology companies. For more than 40 years, Amgen has pioneered biotechnology breakthroughs, to bring state-of-the-art medicines from laboratory to the patient. Amgen has not only discovered and developed innovative human therapeutics but has invested in cutting edge manufacturing capability and support services to deliver these exciting therapies to patients around the world. 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. Your responsibilities will be:
Team Leadership and Organizational Strategy
Supervise team of 3+ Amgen or Contract/Temporary staff in day-to-day accounting operations to deliver on accounting close and reporting activities related to inventory, site support, COS, reserves, standard costing, pre-approval inventory for Amgen’s manufacturing network and to ensure US GAAP compliance in the related areas.
Develop the team by providing coaching and guidance to team members utilizing the Amgen values as the basis, building subject matter expertise and fostering a transformation and continuous process improvement mindset.
Manage roles and responsibilities within the team to balance workload across the team and prioritize based on resources available.
Participate in organizational strategy and succession planning discussions.
Analysis and Interpretation – Accounting and Financial Reports
Implement effective processes to identify and provide timely guidance on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles by partnering with Technical Accounting and External Auditors, as needed.
Review and validate variance analysis prepared by team for the movements of Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow statements.
Establish efficient processes to draft and review footnote disclosures and review detailed support is appropriate for external reporting deliverables (10Q/10K).
Business Partnering (FP&A, Sites, Operations, Manufacturing and Supply Chain)
Develop strategic relationships with Finance and Operational team leaders to coordinate the successful execution of Month End close activities.
Provide leadership support to initiatives or projects by providing accounting guidance and identifying risks to internal controls.
Identify and escalate concerns or issues that impact the accounting close process and financial reporting.
Internal Controls and Compliance Process support
Partner with Internal Controls team to execute and review Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Certification and other control verification processes. Review draft deficiency reports as applicable and lead and monitor implementation of remediation actions.
Support Internal/External/Tax audits by identifying the resources to support the requests and ensuring timely and accurate submission and responses.
Ensure tax compliance and statutory financial requirements are adhered to and related government transactions, if any, are timely and accurately executed.
Understand and interpret Policies and Procedures to provide guidance to stakeholders on proper application.
Process Improvement, Automation and Project Management
Collaborate with process stakeholders 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. AI tools, 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
Engage with Leadership of our External Services vendor supporting accounting operations to monitor activities and address issues on a timely basis.
Engage in regular governance meetings to discuss status of activities, projects, and issue resolution. Monitor Service Level Metrics and manage expectations and deliverables.
Provide timely feedback on external services personnel performance and work with vendor leadership to remediate.
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 and 2 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
OR
Master’s degree and 6 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
OR
Associate’s degree and 10 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above
Preferred Qualifications:
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
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with multiple functions and locations
Detail oriented, excellent analytical, problem solving, management and organizational skills
Ability to work independently, to multi-task, and to establish priorities
Positive attitude and a strong work ethic
Ability to take initiative and work with a minimum level of direction in a fast-paced environment
Strong project management skills
Strong leadership skills
Experience with SAP, S4 HANA, BW, Hyperion, EDW applications
Experience in implementing automation initiatives
Managing outsource partner team
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 and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
Stock-based long-term incentives
Award-winning time-off plans
Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
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