Accounting Manager – IFRS, Swiss Statutory reporting, Pharma contract opportunity to join our Basel based client in the Pharma sector.

The Accounting Manager designs and implements processes related to US tariffs documentation requirements for Finance, ensuring end-to-end service delivery. This role guarantees the quality and effectiveness of these processes, ensuring that systems, documentation, compliance, and reporting are in place.
Beyond the US tariffs process, the Accounting Manager serves as a key resource for statutory accounting and works closely with the NOCC and FRA R2R Swiss teams, Group/Swiss Tax, and business units. 
This collaboration ensures appropriate statutory accounting treatments and year-end statements. 
The role additionally will be responsible for overseeing and managing various projects within the organization, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Your tasks:

• Manage the execution of strategies for US tariff project. Has the operational oversight to provide services at expected levels with a clear customer focus, including handling the exceptions
• Strong Swiss statutory and tax accounting competence acquired in auditing in major auditing company
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status and addressing any issues that arise.
• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for related policies and processes, supports productivity objectives and continuous improvement, process changes and leading practices to have an efficient and effective process
• Lead and manage project teams to deliver projects successfully. Develop and implement project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Ensures all processes, policies and procedures are clearly defined, fully documented
• Ensure compliance with Accounting Manual, Financial Controls Manual and regulatory requirements; ensure all processes and procedures are defined and documented in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensure adherence of processes to this standard, perform controls, follow up on deviations, put remediation plans in place if deemed necessary
• Promote a strong and control environment, follow up on audit issues and implement correcting measures
• Support External and Internal Audit
• Drives and monitors improvements to sustain a highly effective and efficient accounting and reporting process, and realizes cost reduction opportunities including areas to harmonize and standardize processes
• Contribute to Global initiatives, such as the Global SAP S/HANA implementation Lean Digital Core (“LDC”)

Your experience/knowledge:

• 8+ years of financial / accounting experience, with in-depth functional expertise; experience in auditing or consultancy is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national organization.
• Experience in managing projects driving performance improvements.
• IFRS / Swiss Statutory reporting knowledge
• SAP skills.
• Solid communication, presentation and coordination skills, ability to effectively communicate with various people within the organization.
• Experience in managing projects driving performance improvements.
• Swiss Chartered Expert in Financial and Managerial Accounting and Reporting / Chartered Accountant, and/or Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Lean/ Six Sigma Certified preferred
• English – written and spoken, German is beneficial -written and spoken.
• Other languages are a plus

Your soft skills:

• Excellent organizational and planning skills with a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to adapt and thrive in a highly dynamic environment, embracing an agile and flexible mindset.
• Strong sense of urgency and an ability to keep customer focus front and center in all deliverables.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in multidiscipline.

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Due to Swiss work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from Swiss nationals, EU citizens as well as current work-permit holders for Switzerland.
Ukrainian refugees are warmly welcomed, we will support you all the way.
We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, age groups, sexual orientations, personal expressions, ethnic backgrounds, and religious beliefs. Therefore, there is no requirement to provide gender information or a photo in your application.

As per client requirements, we need information about your marital status, nationality, date of birth, and a valid Swiss work permit. For applicants with disabilities, we are happy to explore potential solutions with our end client.