Cost Accounting Manager

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Finance Job Description
Join 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.
COST ACCOUNTING MANAGER
What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will be a member of the Global Cost Accounting team that is responsible for the consolidation and analysis of the global inventory and cost of sales.

Job duties include but are not limited to:

- Perform the inventory accounting for certain Amgen manufacturing sites

- Will be accountable to manage and review the work of an outsourced provider that supports this team.

- Analyze complex inventory movements in SAP and verify that financials are accurate.

- Perform and analyze standard costing in SAP / S4 HANA

- Perform and review sophisticated journal entries, general ledger account analysis, and reconciliation for both SAP and consolidation tools.

- Prepare and review audit schedules and answer questions from internal and external auditors.

- Preparation and review of highly developed financial schedules such as footnote, month-end flash reports, accounting memos, and other ad hoc schedules, as required by the supervisor.

- May lead and review accounting control functions and reporting requirements such as: inventory reserves, pre-approval manufacturing, standard costing including absorption tests, and excess capacity analysis among others.

- Special projects to improve accounting processes including digital projects and integration support.

- Consolidate, analyze, and report global inventory balances by product/site and perform detailed monthly variance analysis.

- Leverage various AI tools to increase efficiency and compliance

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 leader with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:

- Doctorate Degree, OR

- Master’s degree and 2+ years of experience in general accounting, OR

- Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience in general accounting, OR

- Associate’s degree and 10+ years of experience in general accounting, OR

- High School Diploma/GED and 12+ years of experience in general accounting

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)

- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

- Strong project management skills

- 5+ years of General, Intercompany and Cost Accounting experience using SAP / S4 HANA

- Dynamic accounting/finance experience including corporate-level public company experience

- Experience in driving and implementing change, leading through collaboration, and influence

- Experience with investigating complex inventory movements and costing implications in SAP / S4 HANA

- Experience managing outsourced partner relationships

- Experience in financial system optimization, improvement, and implementation

- Knowledgeable in US Generally Accepted Accounting P