Job Description
About This Role:
This position is a primary role responsible for all U.S. Intercompany accounting. This individual will work closely with our Global Tax team ot ensure proper compliance with our legal entity structure. They will also collaborate closely with the global intercompany accountants to provide support on the Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS). This role interacts heavily with the international controller and the local accounting team in Switzerland.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage & approve the activities of the Sr Analyst of Intercompany Accounting (Poland)
- Responsible for the month-end/quarter-end activities for U.S. intercompany transactions and global review of intercompany balances
- Review and approve transactions in AGIS
- SOX Control lead for global intercompany activities (Internal and External audit)
- Intercompany interest and loan calculations
- Intercompany agreements – manage repository of agreements, read all revisions to agreements, manage quarterly GICAR meeting, ensure compliance with agreements.
- Intercompany paydowns – ensure timely and accurate paydowns involving all Domestic entities
- Oracle AGIS system – responsible for system maintenance, new entity set-ups, testing with IT, granting access to staff, resolving issues as they arise
- Provide ad-hoc support to the tax team as needed.
Qualifications
Who You Are:
You have experience with intercompany accounting processes and the rigors of a monthly accounting close cycle. You are efficient, meticulous, and an initiative-taker. You have strong leadership and people skills to be applied when overseeing the work of the Senior Analyst. You have strong written and verbal communication skills and will not hesitate to escalate issues before they cause closing delays or non-compliance with controls. Prior intercompany experience with multiple affiliates Proficient in Excel Excellent oral and written communication skills and customer service oriented.
Required Skills:
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting / Finance
- 5+ years relevant experience in accounting/ finance
Additional Information
This role is eligible to off campus work model (3 days in a quarter in Warsaw office).
Please note that this role requires a candidate to be a holder of work permit & residency in Poland.
About Biogen Poland:
Our Warsaw office is a complex hub for local, regional and global roles. Regardless our role and reporting line we’re driven every day by our unique purpose, working passionately to change the lives of patients affected by rare and devastating diseases. This is what gives us pride, inspires us and gives us fuel to push the boundaries of innovation. We represent over 30 nationalities and celebrate the strength that comes from differences in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. This commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace earned us a Great Place to Work Certificate and Best Places to Work Awards consecutively since 2021 in Poland and Europe. If our mission resonates with your heart and career aspirations, we’re inviting you to join our team.
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
