Financial Analyst, Brazil

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Manager, Financial Accountant of our São Paulo sales office, as the Financial Analyst, Brazil, you will form a part of the global Account to Report team and be responsible for Financial Accounting for CSL’s Brazilian entities to deliver accurate and timely execution of Financial Accounting activities.  You will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting, in addition to supporting projects, continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners and Finance teams. 

This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule.  #LI-hybrid

The Role:

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals for Brazilian entities, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.  
• Approve Business Partner journals within operating system ensuring compliance to global journal policy. 
• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost centre owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expenses; payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes). 
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to Accruals, Prepayments, Inventory, Intergroup/Intercompany and payroll alongside month end reconciliations for IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations. 
• Identify reconciliation issues between operating systems SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion. 
• Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts. 
• Support preparation of Brazilian entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss (limited), Balance sheet and cashflow statements. Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities. 
• Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow. 
• Prepare preliminary local statutory report (for major locations) including financial statements and government reporting this will include calculation of local statutory adjustments between IFRS and local GAAP. 
• Ensure reporting compliance and month filing of entities under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and local requirements, providing adjustment calculations and support with Controlling & Reporting for review. 
• Support for internal and external audit requests, including analytical and substantive audit support for both group and local audit reporting. 

Your Skills & Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration or related discipline required. Professional certification (CPA/CMA) preferred. 
• 3+ years’ experience as a qualified accountant in large, complex and global organisation. Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry and/or with SAP highly desirable. 
• ​Fluent in Portuguese and English languages (English fluency strongly desired but not required).
• The ability to think through irregular issues.
• Timely decision making and priority setting.
• Strong analytical thinking.
• Organizational agility.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to build and maintain sound relationships and collaborate effectively with multiple levels and cross functionally with Finance Business Partners and various Finance Centres of Excellence.   

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.