Asset Controller

About Astellas :

At Astellas, we believe that nurturing exceptional relationships with our employees delivers exceptional business results. Everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. From the first moment, Astellas will inspire you to put this ethos into practice – with a positive, agile company culture and with well-defined ethical principles, values, and systems

Astellas’ Global Capability Centres – Overview

Astellas’ Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.

The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.

Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company’s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

Purpose and Scope :

The Asset Controller is responsible for ensuring that the Asset ledgers are correctly established and operate in line with Group Policy and local statutory regulation as required. In addition, operating leases will form a significant part of the role ensuring that all leases are correctly captured in the IFRS16 calculation model and represented as necessary in local statutory accounts. Specifically for the Americas an element of the role will be responsible for overseeing intangible assets and deal tracking. The role will be the subject matter expert for lease and asset accounting and contribute to the continual improvement of lease and asset accounting operations.

The position is a focal point for audit and accounting controls around Fixed Assets, Leases and Work In Progress.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

• Overall responsibility of the Fixed Assets SAP register and associated accounting records and including the IFRS16 leasing model in accordance with Astellas policy and in consideration of local statutory requirement for each Affiliate
• Ownership of the operation of Fixed assets additions, disposals and depreciation
• Support the capitalization, set-up, amortization, and impairment processes for intangible assets (including license and milestone arrangements), ensuring accurate representation within the Fixed Asset / IFRS16 ledgers and associated reconciliations, with operation of relevant J-SOX controls and collaboration with stakeholders to obtain complete and accurate deal inputs and documentation.
• Reporting of Fixed Assets and overview of the reconciliation between the register and the ledger.
• Operation and monitoring of the IFRS16 leasing model including co-ordination between Affiliates and central booking of leasing depreciation and local statutory adjustments where required.
• Onboarding of new Lease vendors into the IFRS16 Model.
• Management of the Work in Progress assets on behalf of Research and Development Teams.
• Collaboration with Procurement, Legal and business operational colleagues to assist in the creation of Fixed Asset entries to support complex accounting in the creation and maintenance of intangible assets.
• Key contact point for JSOX controls and audit requests related to Fixed Asset and Lease accounting.
• Continuous development of efficiency and compliance improvement, contributing to and supporting transformation projects as required.

Required Qualifications :

Experience :

Technical Knowledge :

Systems and Tools :

Language and Communication

Competencies

Working Environment

This position is based in Mexico and will require on-site work in a hybrid set up.

At Astellas we recognize the importance of work / life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver. Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.