The Role
The Senior Financial Analyst supports Financial Controls & Compliance through testing and assessing the effectiveness of financial controls, ensuring compliance with frameworks, and automating testing activities.
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Job Description Summary
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!We are seeking a detail‑oriented and experienced Senior Financial Analyst to support Financial Controls & Compliance (FCC) through robust design and operating effectiveness testing of financial controls, with deep understanding of SAP processes and configurations. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX / ICFR), enhancing control maturity, and leveraging automation, data analytics, and AI‑enabled techniques to improve the efficiency, consistency, and quality of controls testing and monitoring across finance processes.
Job Description
Major Accountabilities- Execute Design Effectiveness (DE) and Operating Effectiveness (OE) testing of financial controls in compliance with FCC and ICFR requirements.
- Assess and test key controls across core finance processes, including Record‑to‑Report (R2R), Order‑to‑Cash (O2C), Procure‑to‑Pay (P2P), Inventory, Fixed Assets, and Financial Close.
- Prepare and maintain high‑quality control testing documentation, including process narratives, Risk and Control Matrices (RCMs), walkthrough documentation, and audit‑ready test evidence.
- Identify control gaps, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities; support root cause analysis, remediation planning, and tracking through closure.
- Act as a key liaison with Internal Audit and external auditors, providing testing support, responding to audit queries, and facilitating issue resolution.
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate FCC testing activities, including control testing, evidence collection, and reporting.
- Apply process automation tools (e.g., Power Automate, UiPath, or similar platforms) to improve efficiency and consistency of controls testing.
- Leverage data analytics techniques (population testing, exception analysis, trend analysis) to enhance control testing coverage and insight. Utilize advanced Excel skills for data analysis, testing workflows, documentation, and evaluation of supporting evidence.
- FCC control testing completed on time, with high quality and minimal rework.
- Control gaps identified early, clearly articulated, and effectively remediated.
- Strong SAP process knowledge demonstrated through efficient, insightful control assessments.
- High levels of trust and credibility established with FCC leadership, auditors, and process owners.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
- Professional certification such as CPA, CA, ACCA, CIA, or equivalent (preferred).
- 3–5 years of experience in financial controls, FCC/SOX testing, audit, or compliance roles.
- Strong hands‑on experience testing controls in SAP‑enabled finance environments.
- Proven experience working with Internal Audit and external audit firms.
- Compliance and Internal Controls. Tax Fundamentals
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Critical Thinking and Analytical Judgment
- Data Cleansing and Normalization
- Change Agility and Adaptability
- Financial Accounting
- Financial and Management Reporting
- Rapid Problem Solving
- Resilience
- English
Skills Desired
Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing Normalization, Embracing Change, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Rapid Problem Solving, Resilience, TaxSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline
- Professional certification such as CPA, CA, ACCA, CIA, or equivalent
- 3 - 5 years of experience in financial controls, FCC/SOX testing, audit, or compliance roles
- Strong hands-on experience testing controls in SAP-enabled finance environments
- Proven experience working with Internal Audit and external audit firms
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
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The Company
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
