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We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

About the job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. As Finance Head GSA (all genders) within our Finance GSA team, you will lead and coordinate the finance function for the MCO GSA & Germany, ensuring alignment with Sanofi’s strategic roadmap, Finance Core Model, and compliance with local legislation and group requirements. You act as a partner to operationalize strategy, a driver of transformation, and guardian of company assets, having an oversight of statutory and tax reporting and treasury topics. Acting as deputy CFO. 

Main responsibilities:

• Finance Governance & Strategic Execution: Implement Sanofi’s Finance strategy, represent Finance in leadership teams, drive cross-functional alignment, and lead strategic projects. 

• Performance Management & Planning: Support planning, budgeting, and forecasting, monitor financial performance, and ensure financial viability of new initiatives. 

• Operational Excellence & Financial Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely reporting, guide cash management, and drive process simplification and risk management. 

• Leadership & People Development: Build and lead a high-performing team, foster talent development, and promote a collaborative One Finance Community. 

• External Representation & Compliance: Serve as the senior finance representative, ensure compliance with legal requirements, and represent the MCO CFO GSA. 

• Cultural Transformation: Champion continuous improvement, lead cultural transformation, and promote behaviors aligned with Sanofi’s strategic goals. 

About you 

Experience: Relevant experience in a Finance department

Soft and technical skills:  

• Play to Win attitude  

• Curiosity to drive change  

• Ambition to further grow 

• Knowledge in IFRS and German GAAP  

• IT/Systems: MS, TM1, SAP, PLAI  

• High level of ownership, passion, energy, focus and ambition   

• High emotional intelligence  

• Capacity to work under ambiguity   

• Commit to and respect deadlines  

• Strong analytical skills  

• Strategic thinking  

• Capacity to be a change agent  

• Integrity, tenacity and adaptability in complex situations and an often changing environment   

• Strong ability to proactively communicate/interact in a clear & concise way, highly collaborative  

• Demonstrated capacity to interact efficiently with senior management  

• Strong presentation skills  

Education: Academic degree in Finance or Economics 

Languages: Fluent in German and English 

Why choose us?

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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