Financial Planning Analyst - VIE Contract

Financial Planning Analyst - VIE Contract

• Location: Canada, Toronto

• Target start date: 01/08/2025

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address.

About the job

Looking to launch your career at the cutting edge of healthcare? Join Sanofi for a chance to develop with mentoring and guidance from inspirational leaders while helping to make an impact on the lives of countless people worldwide. As Financial Planning Analyst VIE in our Finance Vaccines R&D team, you’ll support monitoring & managing R&D financial performance and trajectory, driving finance planning and forecasting processes across R&D Vaccines, consolidating R&D Results and Risks & Opportunities, and contributing / driving transversal initiatives to improve R&D efficiency and promote simplification, harmonization and automation in R&D finance operating model.

You will be responsible for R&D Vaccines coordination: ensuring the planning of Budget, Forecasts and Actuals data for Headcount, Opex, Capex, and Costs by projects; adapting R&D Vaccines to Sanofi Finance core model and solutions and facilitating the implementation of new processes, tools and performance reports/dashboards, with an objective to improve efficiency, leverage, standardize, simplify and automatize.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensure quality, reliability and timeliness of R&D Finance reporting, in line with Group policies; consolidate and validate R&D reporting; ensure reconciliations of financial information across various systems.
• Drive R&D Budget and Forecasts processes: providing support to R&D Finance community, managing specific budget & forecast activities, fostering a continuous improvement mindset through surveys and finance community engagement.
• Actively support the transformation to new ways of working, the Finance core model and the transition from R&D legacy tools to group solutions: providing overall R&D System support, project management & change management for new R&D finance processes and systems.
• Coordinate R&D Finance Power BI initiative with the objective to provide, as a complement to Group Power BI reports and dashboards, a suite of consistent, automated, standardized reports for R&D.
• Manage VR&D Internal costs, including headcounts/resources, ensure efficient interface between Resources Management & FinOps.
• Coordinate the evolution of all processes with R&D departments: Planning / Projects.

About you

Experience:

• At least 2 years of experience in Finance.

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.

Technical and soft skills:

• Strong knowledge of Accounting and Finance topics.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills.
• Strong analytical capabilities, problem-solver and proven experience working collaboratively and effectively across multiple internal/external stakeholders.
• Organized, proactive, curious and pragmatic.
• Attention to detail, quality, ability to operate effectively under strict deadlines and to navigate uncertainty.

Languages:

• Knowledge of English is mandatory.
• Knowledge of French is a plus.

Why choose us?

iMove is a unique program tailored for European youth interested in challenging themselves with meaningful assignments across the globe. At Sanofi we have a strong ambition to invest in young talents who will drive the success of Sanofi tomorrow.

Sanofi’s Work Abroad Program, iMove, offers jobs-assignments with actual responsibilities and a perspective to grow. We provide those opportunities in various functions such as: marketing, finance, regulatory, supply chain, clinical trials, production, etc. and in more than 40 countries. Sanofi unites people who are passionate about solving healthcare needs across the world. Joining our iMove Work Abroad Program is a unique opportunity to make a difference through your work.