Why Patients Need You
Your in-depth knowledge and financial skills will keep our products in production and our innovators innovating.
Whether you are part of establishing, coordinating, researching, or administering financial operations, your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster and more efficiently than ever before.
What You Will Achieve
Pfizer's GBS Financial Services (GBS FS) organization delivers best-in-class accounting, finance and compliance operations globally for the Pfizer enterprise.
The GBS FS organization is a high performing team comprised of more than 1300 colleagues located in 8 sites around the world, in addition to an outsourced workforce of 200 people.
The industry-leading value proposition is to centralize, standardize and optimize complex processes and in delivering a quality service at a reasonable cost with a compliance mindset.
The scope of services provided by the GBS FS organization include Record to Report processes: US Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Statutory Reporting, Financial Reporting, the Intercompany Center of Excellence (CoE), Financial Master Data Governance, Risk Management / Compliance, Capital CoE, Inventory CoE and Balance Sheet CoE; Transaction Processing in Invoice to Pay, Indirect Tax, Order to Cash, Credit Risk and Gross to Net, Manufacturing Finance support; Operational Transfer Pricing CoE; Treasury Operations CoE, and MAPP Administration CoE.
The Global R2R Compliance Senior Accountant will support R2R compliance activities on a global basis.
This role will work closely with the Close COE Leadership, RM&C Lead, GBS FS R2R Operational Leads, and other GBS stakeholders to manage risk by driving compliance with financial and business process controls.
This individual will support the implementation and operationalization of global in-scope projects, including Digital and other optimization activities.
How You Will Achieve It
- Support global R2R compliance execution
- Serve as the SOD Compliance lead in SAP - SOD final access approver in SAP
- Execute SOD controls and follow-up on exceptions identified
- Prepare reports of findings and recommendations to GBS Leadership
- Handle accounting policy and procedure inquiries, ad hoc reporting, and analysis requests
- Assist colleagues and end-users with resolution of escalated and complex issues with a focus on compliance
- Support various Balance Sheet COE and Compliance initiatives
- Maintain records and supporting files and documentation in an organized manner
- Effectively communicate to peers and management with regards to work tasks and deadlines
- Identify issues proactively and communicate to manager along with potential range of solutions; Act as an initial informal point of escalation to resolve questions from junior colleagues
- Review select activities of junior colleagues
- Lead development and presentation of training activities
- Provide informal coaching to further develop junior colleagues
- Ensure activities are performed to a high standard of operational excellence, established service level agreements and deadlines are met, and adhere to defined GBS process and control requirements
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities and lead the development of range of solutions
- Engage directly with business partners on complex activities and deliverables; maintain effective relationships with business partners
- Develop technical and business skills, ensuring effective and efficient use of time and competencies
- Understand the functionality, interfaces and interdependencies of Pfizer's financial processes and systems
- Maintain complete and accurate work instructions and SOX related internal control documentation; Support the Internal and External audits and SOX compliance initiatives
- Ensure strong commitment to the control environment through training and review to meet all control and compliance requirements
**Qualifications**:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required, Master's Degree preferred
- CPA or equivalent (ACCA, CIMA) preferred
- Minimum of 3-5+ years of technical accounting required
- Public accounting experience strongly preferred
- Practical experience of US GAAP and Statutory Accounting/Experience of other GAAPs required
- Advanced SAP & HFM experience strongly preferred
- International experience in emerging markets seen as a plus
- English proficiency required
OTHER SKILLS:
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and solve problems in an unstructured environment
- Self-motivated, initiates tasks with little to no guidance or support
- Must possess excellent presentation, verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent business acumen to develop effective strategic business partnership with key stakeholders
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Solid understanding of accounting and finance principles
- Ability to perform an