Senior Accountant, International Statutory Reporting & Legal Entity COE

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

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 statutory reporting objectives.

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

• Support markets with complex regulatory requirements
• Assist in supporting short-term and long-term goals aligned with the CoE's objectives
• 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
• 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
• Perform the statutory reporting process for assigned entities including the conversion from GAAP to STAT ledger, preparation of statutory reports, and liaise with internal business partners on the review and filing of such statutory reports

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

• Business fluency in English

• Previous experience in Statutory & Legal Entity Reporting

• Excellent relationship management skills

• Adaptability and ability to manage change 

• Customer-first mindset

• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills

Travel Requirements

• no

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

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BMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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