AstraZeneca Hiring for Finance Analyst – Transactions Job at Luton, East of England, England Full Time

Finance at AstraZeneca has a clear vision to become trusted partners, creating value and leading change. As such, Finance has a pivotal role to play in shaping our long-term financial health, partnering to deliver great results through insight, delivering excellence in financial operations and safeguarding AstraZeneca’s assets and reputation.

Finance Analyst – Transactions

Purpose:

• Ensure timely and accurate processing of all SmartPay transactions on a day to day basis

• Business support and training for all users of SmartPay

• Compliance Process Management – To support the Finance control function in areas such as, but not limited to,:

  • 
    SOX / FCF Framework

  • 
    Compliance

  • 
    Reporting e.g LCC pack

• Finance support for Disclosure reporting

Accountabilities Summary:

• Transactional processing of all SmartPay items

• Compliance Process Management and Issue resolution – for SmartPay

• Finance control and compliance

Finance Process Management (95%)

• Processing of all contracts through SmartPay in a timely and compliant manner.

• Work with shared service teams on issue resolution of HCP/HCO payments

• Support the wider business with issue resolution in relation to payment queries.

• Ensure regular reviews of KPI’s and SLA’s for SmartPay transactions .

Compliance Process Management

• Responsible for reporting on and evidencing a variety of Financial controls within the framework on a periodic basis – in relation to their area of accountability

• Responsible for reporting transactions that fall within the Financial Control Framework e.g. Vendor setups for HCP and HCO Responsible for review and enhancement of the relevant controls.

• Data Analytics – exception reporting for Local Compliance Committee

• Quarterly reporting to LCC for all HCP and HCO spend/Uses

• Co-ordination of and support for any Finance Compliance Audits

Issues and System Management

• Provide local expertise for complex HCO and HCP payment query escalation

• Support master data maintenance work for SmartPay, e.g. Cost centre / product set ups

Qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Significant administrative or related experience

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word Power point and Excel

• Payment processing experience

• Analytical and structured approach to tasks

• Relationship management skills

Desirable:

• ABPI code experience

• SAP experience

• DocuSign

• Previous experience within an accounting team

• Proven experience of working independently on a wide range of areas

Reporting Line, Structure or Org Chart, Key Working Relationships

• Reports to Head of Financial Control and Supply Chain

• Key working relationship with Finance team FieldForce, Compliance team

Opening date 04/10/2021

Closing date 18/10/2021

Competitive salary and benefits apply