Amgen US | Sr. Manager Global Cost Accounting

Your responsibilities will be

• 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.
• In this vital role you will join Amgen’s mission: To Serve Patients.
• 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.
• Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
• Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage special projects for which Global Accounting representation is required, including company expansion, business acquisitions and divestitures, and financial system implementations.
• 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.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting.
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting.
• Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.
• 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.
• Ability to take initiative and work with a minimum level of direction in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with SAP, S4 HANA, BW, Hyperion, EDW applications.
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of accounting, audit or financial reporting Experience
• Strong project management skills
• Experience in implementing automation initiatives

Amgen Inc.

Amgen was founded in 1980 in Thousand Oaks, California, as Applied Molecular Genetics. Still based in Thousand Oaks, it is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, makes and sells medicines, including Prolia and Evenity for bone health, Repatha for high cholesterol, Enbrel and Otezla for inflammatory diseases, and Kyprolis and Blincyto for cancers. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol AMGN, and it became part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2020. The purchase of Horizon Therapeutics in 2023 added medicines for rare diseases.

• Industry: Biotechnology: discovery, development, manufacture and sale of medicines for bone health, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases, cancer and rare diseases
• Headquarters: Thousand Oaks, California, United States (Amgen Inc., listed on Nasdaq as AMGN)