CFH Morocco, Tunisia, Libya & Africa Vaccine FBP

Country Finance Head – Morocco, Tunisia & Libya & Finance Business Partner – Vaccine Africa

Job Summary

The Country Finance Head – Morocco, Tunisia & Libya & Finance Business Partner – Vaccine Africa serves as the strategic financial leader , with dual accountability. This role ensures robust financial governance, drives performance optimization, and partners with business stakeholders across all markets to achieve strategic objectives while maintaining compliance and fostering a strong regional finance community. the role promotes innovation, speed, and agility through bold new approaches — notably digital — to reach business objectives and ensure sustainable performance across all markets in scope.

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Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy, Transformation and Execution

• Implements finance strategy, rules, and tools across the assigned scope. Ensures compliance with local laws and corporate procedures while protecting business interests and assets. Drives financial excellence and represents Sanofi Finance externally.

Frame the MTL Financial strategy in alignment with Group and GBU management to simplify portfolio and maximize profitability and patient reach

• Extend strategic finance partnership to Vaccine Africa markets, supporting local teams in aligning with Group and GBU strategic priorities

• Embrace and promote bold new approaches, including digital transformation initiatives, to drive efficiency, innovation, and agility across Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets; foster a culture of continuous improvement and speed in the way finance operates and supports the business.

• Coordinate and harmonize finance strategy across Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets, ensuring consistency of approach across different market.

• Implement the Finance Function strategy roadmap, rules, and principles for all Sanofi activities in MTL and Vaccine Africa markets in accordance with local legislation, corporate procedures, and Group requirements

• Foster strategic thinking and partner in decision-making processes for business development across all markets

• Support Finance transformation initiatives, including Business Operations (A2R, CI2C, S2P, Controlling Ops) and other finance functions (i.e IC , treasury , etc) implementation.

• Provide finance expertise to support management in decision-making processes

• Cooperate with tax advisors to develop tax optimization strategies in coordination with tax teams; ensure competitive intelligence on tax impacts in liaison with legal and regulatory functions

• Infuse cash flow, internal control, and compliance culture across the Finance Community and business operations.

2. Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Own the full P&L, ensuring accountability for financial results, budget delivery, and performance targets

• Act as Finance Business Partner for Vaccine Africa markets, supporting business teams on planning, forecasting, and performance management

• Ensure consistency of macro-economic hypotheses in planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes across Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets

• Challenge GBU performance beyond budget tracking to identify risks and opportunities for dynamic resource reallocation at both country and regional level

• Prepare forward-looking analyses focusing on future risks and opportunities with actionable proposals to ensure target achievement across all markets

• Co-pilot and challenge business investments and resource allocation through appropriate KPIs, prioritization measures, and operational analysis

• Support and challenge operational management in Morocco, and across Vaccine Africa markets; provide advice, anticipate issues, and monitor performance

• Ensure reliability of statutory and managerial accounts and timely reporting for Morocco, & Vaccine Africa markets in meeting reporting standards

• Align business strategies and forecasts with M&S/Supply Chain/R&D to ensure consistency of information and data

• Challenge business hypotheses to ensure forecasts are realistic from a finance perspective

• Lead Budget and Forecast processes for Morocco, Tunisia & Libya in close cooperation with the business ; support equivalent processes in Vaccine Africa markets

3. Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Ensure proper flow of financial information and clear processes and governance across Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets, particularly with A2R and Finance Operations

• Coordinate regional finance governance, ensuring alignment and consistency of financial practices across all markets in scope

• Participate in defining Finance strategy and team sizing with Finance and business stakeholders at country and regional level

• Support GBU, MCO, and Functions stakeholders across Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets on all financial aspects

• Interact regularly with GBU MCO leadership team and Finance community (local, regional, and global), representing both Morocco, Tunisia & Libya and Vaccine Africa markets

• Drive country and regional performance through optimization of resources, assets, and liabilities while minimizing risk exposure, in coordination with Finance Operations and COEs

• Manage multi-market stakeholder relationships, balancing direct leadership accountability in Morocco, Tunisia & Libya with an influencing and partnering model in Vaccine Africa markets

4. People Management

• Maintain positive working environment; collaborative team work and inspiring performance driven culture.

• Lead high performance team through proper performance management based on agreed priorities
• Ensure team readiness and provide support in the field to warrant team is fully equipped with necessary tools to drive performance
• Enrich team intellectual capital through identification, development and retention of talents.
• Tailored talent development and succession plans to raise team capabilities and competencies
• Ensure team conducts daily tasks in alignment with our values, policies and SOP’s

5. Maintain Compliance 

• Abide by the requirements of the code of Ethics including but not restricted to maintaining high professional standards of conduct in line with the Company procedure with a duty of care to the reputation of the Company 

6. Ethical Leadership

• Takes personal accountability to use personal experience and knowledge, as well as the training and tools provided by Sanofi, to maintain a good knowledge and understanding of all ethics and governance relevant to the role (including the Industry Code of Practice, Sanofi Policies and Procedures and any relevant legal requirements) and demonstrate personal leadership in applying these to all work undertaken.

7. Environmental and Safety Leadership

To care for his/her own safety and wellbeing and the safety of others, and to co-operate with the company to ensure a safe place of work. Employees are therefore expected to:

• Support and conform to Company safety rules and procedures to ensure a safe and healthy working environment
• Report any accident, incident or near miss, whether it be of personal injury or property damage
• Thoroughly read all safety documentation issues by the Company and comply with its requirements.

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Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Education: BA or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or similar field

• Experience: +10 years of experience in relevant financial a managerial role. Experience in budgeting , planning forecasting is a must.

• Multi-Market Scope: Experience managing multi-country or regional finance scope, with demonstrated ability to operate across markets with varying levels of direct responsibility

• Leadership Models: Proven ability to balance direct leadership accountability and influencing/partnering models across different markets

• Market Knowledge: Deep business acumen and detailed market knowledge; experience in Africa markets preferred

• International Exposure: Multicultural experience from international environments

• Languages: Fluency in French and English.

Professional Knowledge and Skills

Leadership & Strategy

• Demonstrated inclusive leadership to serve as a leader among peers

• Strategic thinking: ability to anticipate future trends, develop "what if" scenarios, deal with complexity, and build comprehensive business strategies across multiple markets

Technical Expertise

• Good knowledge of industrial topics to contribute to country and regional strategy

• Strong track record in working on complex tax and legal matters in coordination with local experts

• Excellent analytical skills to challenge and detect risks, draw the big picture, and propose remediation or improvement actions

• Cash Management with high advanced level of Interpreting Financial Data

• Finance Strategy framing and execution with high level of risk management skills

• Digital Literacy

• Internal Control Compliance

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong communication skills to build commitment, create adherence, and interact efficiently with senior leaders and peers across GBUs and multiple markets

• Excellent team player, able to think and act as One Finance beyond GBU boundaries

• Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners.

• Ability to influence and drive outcomes without direct authority in Vaccine Africa market contexts

Execution & Delivery

• Strong track record of leading and coaching staff to deliver superior results

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously across a multi-market scope

• Ability to drive process improvement and change initiatives across the organization and across geographies