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ABOUT THE JOB

Roles & Missions

The Sanofi Internal Audit Paris Hub is part of the Sanofi Internal Audit Department which reports to the General Management and the Audit Committee.

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

SIA helps Sanofi executing its strategy and achieving business objectives by assessing and improving the effectiveness of Sanofi’s governance, risk management, play to win behaviors and control processes. SIA commits to alert management on significant risks and to monitor their effective mitigation. We are covering E&BI risks, financial risk and efficiency and effectiveness risks.

The vision of internal audit is that we are in the business of driving change, helping Sanofi to become a learning organization.

We strive to manage the paradox between our role of independent assessor for Senior Leaders and Audit Committee and our role to help our colleagues better managing their risks, taking full ownership of it. We also advocate for thoughtful risk taking.

The Sanofi Internal Audit Department relies on 3 hubs in the US, in France and in Singapore and an IS expertise. All hubs are an extension of the Sanofi Internal Audit Department, the Paris Hub covers Africa, Middle East and Eurasia zones, Europe Region and all Corporate Functions.

Main Responsibilities

• Every 6-7 weeks (3-4 weeks of preparation in Paris, followed by 3 weeks of fieldwork), you will have to audit a process within one of Sanofi’s business units (either in Eurasia, Middle East, Africa and Europe Regions) or Corporate Function and with a changing team of colleagues. The scope and project will change for each assignment (from affiliate or site audits to R&D publication, alliance management, CSR, product development or launch, portfolio rationalization, culture check-up to shape Play to Win behaviors, etc.)
• During the audit preparation, you will get familiar with the process, through training, reviewing of Corporate Guidelines, interviews of global or regional process owners, analyzing data, reviewing usual area for improvement for that process, benchmarking versus internal or external best practices. You will also have to get familiar with the business environment, entity performance and organization to be able to put areas for improvement into perspective. Based, on your knowledge of the process and risks you will have to develop your audit program to be conducted on the field
• During fieldwork you will develop a deep knowledge of the actual local process and identify areas for improvement to better manage the associated risk. This will require asking the relevant questions to several individuals involved in the process, dig into data, identify trends and vouching documents to spot inconsistencies and complete the relevant testing strategy. When you identify areas for improvement you will have to debrief process owners, convince them and work with them on how to concretely improve the process
• During different phases of the audit, you will be coached by the team leader who will help you to develop the most relevant and reliable audit approach. Since the time available will be limited you will have to constantly manage your priorities within short timelines. Your work will also have to be properly documented so that it can be reviewed to ensure its reliability and relevancy since one of our value propositions is to provide reliable conclusions
• During audit wrap up, you will have to write your recommendations, straight to the point, short and easy to understand for individuals not familiar with the process who will receive the report. You will also have to follow-up on the action plans agreed with and committed by the audited organization
• Besides the audits you will become a member of a Center of Expertise (CoE) depending on your background (manage medical, market to promote, demand to cash, plan to manufacture, procure to pay, research and development, strategy and governance or manage finance). You will work with your CoE team on CoE’s priorities, for example for your end-to-end process you will update the work program, prepare and provide training for other auditors and identify trends through analysis of latest audit findings and action plans. After each project you will have a feedback session from the team leader and discuss developments opportunities with your manager

When you have acquired enough knowledge within the department and you have the necessary management skills you will also be team leader on some projects. In this role, you will

• Organize the team work, make the final proposal for risks to be covered and the associated strategy to cover those risks
• Guide the team members, supervise their work to ensure it meets the initial objective, provide feedback to each team member to help their development
• Build partnering relationships with management, debrief them, propose recommendations and agree on action plans with them, follow-up on action plan implementation
• Provide on-going insights on the assignments to the supervisor of the project (either the Hub Head or the Deputy)
• Depending on the project and the team you may have also have to cover your own area of risks
• Build the audit report with the team, develop the different presentations

ABOUT YOU

Education/work experience

• Pharmacist, master's in business, Biology or Engineering
• At least 5 years of working experience in one of the following functions: medical, marketing, procurement, supply chain, finance, business operations and support, or internal control
• Fluent in English, both oral and written. Ability to conduct an audit in another language (German, Arabic, Russian or Spanish) would be highly appreciated
• International exposure and/or experience would be appreciated
• SAP knowledge would be an asset

Skills and attributes

The candidate must be looking to express the 4 behaviors of the play to win culture

• An ideal candidate is inquisitive, persuasive, service oriented, has a global mindset, able to recognize and respond to diverse thinking styles, learning and cultural qualities
• Being an auditor will require extensive travelling within the Eurasia Middle East, Africa and Europe Regions, and occasionally elsewhere in the world. Travels can be as long as 3 weeks in a row and can take up to 15 weeks per year. Auditors are expected to stay at least 3 years within the department before moving to a new role. This period could potentially be shortened based on Sanofi and department needs and upon validation from SVP Sanofi Internal Audit

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