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The Senior Accountant, International Statutory Reporting & Legal Entity CoE for Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) will play a pivotal role in supporting the International Statutory Reporting & Legal Entity CoE Lead.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations, drive process standardization and simplification, and contribute to the success of BMS’s financial reporting objectives.

Support a team and actively participate in various activities related to statutory reporting and legal entity processes including:

• Perform the preparation and review of legal entity profitability for forecasting and actuals, including the calculation of profitability adjustments.  
• Support markets with complex regulatory environment and demanding tax / statutory audit requirements
• Assist in setting short-term and long-term goals aligned with the CoE's objectives
• Oversee and actively participate in the establishment of standardized processes for global statutory and legal entity accounting
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the needs and desired outcomes of all parties and will convene, influence decision making and create/develop/maintain relevant Governance bodies that define the future needs of the process.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and leadership

• Collaborate with the Associate Director and Managers on the team to ensure the strategic vision and direction for the Statutory Reporting & Legal Entity Reporting CoE are being met

Statutory Reporting & Legal Entity Reporting activities

• Establish and monitor legal entity profitability for forecasting and actuals, including the calculation of profitability adjustments
• Prepare the necessary supporting documentation to monitor and determine if there should be a change to the tangible goods transfer prices and submitting requests to change the tangible good transfer prices
• Provide financial data and information to third parties for the annual transfer pricing documentation report
• Liaise with internal business partners ensuring legal entity forecasting accuracy
• Compute certain intercompany legal entity transactions  
• Perform the statutory reporting process for assigned entities including the conversion from GAAP to STAT ledger, analysis of statutory legal entity profitability, preparation of statutory financial statements, and liaise with internal business partners on the review and filing of such financial statements
• Communicate with Tax COE who will utilize calculations for legal entity and statutory reporting to produce income tax provisions and income tax returns

Relationship management and teaming

• Identify and manage training and upskilling of local team members
• Hold self and others to timelines, quality, and accuracy

Process improvement and risk management

• Articulate material risks and opportunities and take an active role in designing and executing response or contingency plans

Key Stakeholders

• Senior leaders from various key Finance organizations – Corporate, Controller, Commercialization Finance, GPS, FP&A, Tax, etc.
• Corporate and in-market Finance team members
• Steering Committees and Advisory Boards
• Other Internal customers

Minimum Requirements

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, required.
• Master’s degree preferred and / or CA/CPA equivalent, preferred

Experience

• Finance experience within the pharmaceutical industry, preferred

Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities

• Additional European language beyond business fluent English, would be an advantage
• Previous experience in Statutory & Legal Entity Reporting, required
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Adaptability and ability to manage change 
• Customer-first mindset
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills

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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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