Success Profile

Courageous
Results-driven
Proactive
Problem-Solver
Leadership
Team player

Our Team / Job Overview

The mission of Supplier Audit is to support Sanofi in continuously enhancing its relationship with its suppliers and maximize the value of its contracts with these suppliers. Through exercising our rights to audit our suppliers, we aim at checking the latter comply with the agreed upon contractual provisions and more generally improve our supplier governance. Supplier audit assignments will focus on strategic initiatives, critical business processes, and key third-party supplier / outsourcing arrangements.

Supplier Audit is part of Sanofi Internal Audit and Risk Management:

• Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and the Audit Committee, the mission of Sanofi Internal Audit and Risk Management is to provide independent and objective reasonable assurance regarding the group’s ability to control its operations according to the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA) international standards.

• Sanofi Internal Audit and Risk Management helps the company execute its strategy and achieve business objectives by assessing and improving the effectiveness of Sanofi’s governance, risk management, and control processes, and is committed to alerting management on significant risks and monitoring their effective mitigation.

• The Department relies on 3 Hubs: Paris (France), the Americas and Singapore as well as on 3 Centers of Expertise: Operational Excellence & Digital Transformation, Information Systems and Supplier Audit.

The newly created role of Supplier Senior Auditor is a great opportunity to participate in the development of the Sanofi Supplier Audit expertise.

Job Responsibilities

As Senior Auditor, Supplier Audit, you will work in a team environment to plan and execute dynamic risk-based audits and identify value-added recommendations to strengthen third-party governance and Company processes and controls. Through the supplier audits you will analyze various qualitative and quantitative data provided by the Company as well as the audited third-party.

Your role will include the following main responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with audit teams to execute financial, operational, compliance and integrated-IT related supplier audits

• Conduct target and segmentation activities based on qualitative and quantitative inputs to identify prospective supplier and contract targets; align with Legal, Procurement, Finance and SBS on final target lists

• Conduct planning activities to identify risks and develop appropriate risk-based audit procedures

• Execute detailed audits of target suppliers and contracts to assess adherence to agreed upon contract and financial terms / conditions

• Document and report detailed observations and instances of non-compliance notably associated with historic financial findings, potential ongoing savings opportunities and process improvements

• Quantify financial findings and confirm factual accuracy with the business, Procurement, Finance and Supplier(s)

• Based on the audit outcome, support Procurement, Legal, Finance, SBS, and the business (as needed) to engage supplier and agree resolution, and implement learnings and improvement opportunities into future contracting processes and associated controls

Job Qualifications

• A BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, or other business discipline

• A minimum of 5 years prior public accounting or external/internal audit experience, including experience in forensic, financial, operational, or compliance auditing. A substantial experience in Procurement and suppliers' management would also be a valuable profile

• Strong analytics skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy

• Knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS and IIA Standards

• Fluent in English

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to travel approximately 25-30% of the time, including international travel (on average two weeks at a time)

• Proficiency with Excel/Word/PowerPoint. Data analytics experience (specifically with visualization tools such as PowerBI, QlikView, and Tableau) and ERPs (SAP a plus)

• Experience working in a matrixed international environment preferred

The following skills and/or experiences are an advantage:

• MBA or other advanced degree

• Professional certification (e.g., CPA, CA, CIA, CISA, CFE or equivalent)

• Experience with a Big Four firm

• Experience in healthcare and/or life-science industry

• Experience in developing written reports and delivering presentations

• Multilingual (verbal and written)

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

#GD-SA
#LI-SA

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.