Senior Accounting Manager

Viatris Healthcare d.o.o.

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here’s how the Senior Accounting Manager role will make an impact:

- Review and finalise monthly / annual accounting close including tax returns (VAT, corporate income, and other tax reports)
- Prepare annual affiliate financial statements and other statutory reports under local GAAP and IFRS for the purpose of statutory audit and sign-off by the Board of Directors
- Prepare various affiliate statistical reports through the year for government institutions
- Supervise, control and book salary and incentive bonuses calculation reports
- Supervise payroll and incentive bonuses calculation and payment
- Approve expense reports/vendor invoices and calculation of outgoing accounts in accordance with Viatris Global policies and local procedures and local laws / regulations
- Manage all accounting-related activities for assigned countries including all entity assets and liabilities ensuring that they are in accordance with Viatris Global policies and local procedures and local laws / regulations
- Manage the process of data recording in GL and analytical bookkeeping records, and the Balance Sheet reconciliation process
- Design and implement local accounting procedures in accordance with local law and corporate policies
- Ensure that adequate internal financial controls and administrative procedures are maintained for the affiliate
- Ensure and maintain adequate mapping between local ERP and HFM for reporting purposes
- Maintain external relationships / interfaces with local auditors, tax and legal advisors, financial institutions, and governmental officers
- Actively participate in the creation of company policies from the accounting and financial perspective and implement them in daily work
- Regularly support various company projects and corporate requests
- Regularly support various business applications (procurement, travel, etc.) concerning local tax and accounting regulations, to ensure adequate reporting and alignment with statutory requirements
- Build and lead a high-performance team of motivated accountants, support their growth and professional development to ensure that the organization’s accounting activities are conducted accurately, ethically, consistently and according to expectations
- Coordinate accounting team activities in the territory of responsibility to ensure that bookkeeping rules and regulatory requirements are followed
- Give regular feedback to the direct supervisor about the actual status, make suggestions and take adequate actions to resolve any issue or problem
- Give regular feedback about local regulation changes and ensure timely notification of the management thereof, ensure top-down communication about information required for direct reports to meet all requirements
- Act as a partner with team leads and departments across the organization to raise awareness of regulatory requirements and ensure the timely adoption of new rules and regulations
- Promptly report any adverse event/adverse drug reaction, special situation and/or product quality complaint to the applicable Department, in accordance with local timelines.
- Coordinate and liaise on monthly and year-end closing processes
- Coordinate monthly book closing processes, including fixed assets accounting, accruals and prepayments, special items such as leasing and income in kind, and other accounting entries
- Coordinate and ensure that all monthly reports (statutory and corporate) are timely and accurately prepared
- Ensure that local regulations and requirements are properly understood and implemented in the daily work of the accounting department
- Ensure that actual expenses are properly booked in accordance with local GAAP standards
- Ensure accuracy of the trial balance and reconciliation on a monthly basis
- Monitor actual expenses versus budget
- Contribute to plan/update preparation

- Follow-up with other teams to ensure proper records of expenses

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills, and experiences:

- University degree in accounting or economics
- Strong Computer skills – Excel, Word
- High-level of accuracy
- Fluent English - speaking and writing
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- People management skills
- Minimum of five years’ experience in accounting at a multinational company
- IFRS and local GAAP proficiency
- Adaptability, Initiatives, Know the business

- Chartered Accountant Diploma
- iScala, SAP
- Experience in accounting, local tax and accounting legislation, financial reporting standards and international accounting standards
- Service oriented
- Excellent listening and communication skills
- Accurate and punctual in work with numbers
- Self-driven
- Able to perform under stress
- Leadership skills
- Confidential and trustworthy

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits, and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives, and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare, not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

A t Viatris, we offer   competitive   salar ies , benefits   and   an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.