Sr. Manager Global Cost Accounting

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared mission to serve patients living with serious illnesses drives all that we do.

Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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, youll 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, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will join Amgens mission:
To Serve Patients. Amgen is one of the worlds 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 Amgens 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 Amgens 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 elevate 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…