Accounting, Tax and Controlling Senior Specialist

Job Description

Organon South Africa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Organon & Co. Inc., is a brand-new independent company and publicly traded company that aspires to become the world’s leading Women’s Health Company. With a global portfolio that includes biosimilars and a broad array of medicines spanning important therapeutic categories, we are dedicated to bringing lifesaving medicines to more than 140 international countries. Our vision is to contribute to women's equality, providing medicines and access to women, creating opportunities, and educating women as we uplift our communities and economy.

South Africa is part of the META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa) Cluster, and Finance is a critical function within the cluster's commercial operations. Reporting to the South Africa Finance Controller, the Senior Specialist for Accounting, Tax and Controlling (AT&C) will have end-to-end responsibility for the South Africa entities/operations. This includes all accounting, tax, treasury, and internal control related matters performed locally or through partner teams (e.g., GDO). In line with the structure, this role requires collaboration with the Commercial Organization and various stakeholders, both internal and external. The finance team has an agile structure with all members reporting directly to the Finance Controller, enabling flexible team settings depending on tasks, easing resource allocation, and creating development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for accurate and compliant results in the South Africa legal entities for US GAAP and local Accounting & Tax standards.
• Manage AtR, StS, OtC, Tax teams in GDO to ensure objectives achievement, continuity of processes and succession planning.
• Compliance with all global & local statutory accounting policies.
• Establish & manage methodology & GL accounts structure for US GAAP, statutory & tax accounting.
• Establish & manage transfer pricing set-up & documentation.
• Establish & manage actual cost accounting.
• Monitor legislation changes and ensure timely implementation of required changes in SAP and accounting processes.
• Prepare and close books on a monthly basis.
• Manage the annual external audit and drafting of AFS.
• Timely submission of statutory & tax reporting to local tax authorities in accordance with legislation.
• Lead the Tax function by identifying and analyzing tax risks for local legal entity; Tax planning; Tax support & consulting for business, local finance and global tax function initiatives; Tax analysis to comply with international tax requirements; Locally specified tax accounting & tax filing for CIT & VAT; Manage all types of Tax audits; Timely submission of supporting documentation for any remote or onsite tax audits; Serve as contact point for local tax authorities and internal audit teams.
• Ensure appropriate archiving of all hard copy documents including reporting forms to ensure compliance with local legislation.
• Make decisions on statutory and tax related processes, policies, and procedures.
• Manage all types of issues in statutory and tax areas as well as GAAP reporting.
• Support cross tax audits of vendors or customers.
• Perform & Control Balance Sheet Reconciliation.
• Apply SOX and non-SOX controls to local processes and generate oversight of overall control environment linked to the local legal entity.
• Ongoing process optimization and support of new system implementations.
• Manage Fixed Assets Accounting (GAAP, Statutory & Tax), Direct / Indirect Asset Capitalization, Value & Track of Fixed Assets, Perform Asset Disposals, and Obligatory physical inventory counting & tagging.

Required Education, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or other related areas.
• Strong Tax & Audit experience.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in Finance/Accounting with supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge in IFRS is an asset.
• Good level of MS Office applications usage and experience of SAP (key user).
• Understanding of business issues, including foreign currency impacts, deferred tax.
• Strong oral & written communication skills (English).
• Open-minded, pro-active, result-driven and self-organized.
• Ability to take ownership.
• Client-oriented, conflict resolution / problem solving.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication, organization and managerial skills.
• Team player, self-disciplined, analytic and result-oriented, attentive to deadlines.
• Comfortable in an environment of changing technologies and processes, demonstrating flexibility to new ways of working.
• Open to work in flexible and flat (no hierarchy) teams.
• Ability to manage stakeholders in different locations.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Works effectively under pressure & multitasking.