For more than 170 years, Pfizer has continuously worked to make a difference by delivering innovative therapies that improve the lives of our patients. By building a talented community of colleagues that aligns with our patient-focused purpose and core values, Pfizer has improved global health and impacted more than 1 billion patients around the world.One of our primary goals is to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve, which is why we continue to surround ourselves with colleagues of diverse backgrounds and abilities who can contribute unique viewpoints and perspectives to all aspects of our business. Diverse teams are more collaborative, more balanced, and more accepting of difference, promoting a culture that encourages our people to bring their most authentic selves to work every day. Pfizer consistently strives to create an inclusive environment where every colleague feels seen, heard, and cared for.In honor of our commitment to create breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, Pfizer is also revolutionizing and evolving how colleagues work today. This year, Pfizer launched a new initiative that we call Log In For Your Day where a majority of colleagues can arrange with their manager to work remotely two to three days a week while still maintaining the ability to collaborate regularly in person at our sites. This flexible working model blends the best of remote work and on-site collaboration to drive greater flexibility, support work-life balance, and promote a vibrant, agile, and innovative culture.

What You Will Achieve

• Manage global administration of the Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Balance Sheet Analytics, and Supplemental Disclosure Processes (system maintenance, metrics, reporting, deployments, etc.)
• Partner with Digital (Business Technology) and external vendor (as applicable) to ensure system stability and compliance
• Support Balance Sheet Globalization Program governance
• Maintain complete and accurate tasks lists and status of open items
• Support transformation activities related to the Balance Sheet deliverables (reconciliations, analytics, etc.)
• Maintain complete and accurate standard operating procedures and SOX related internal control documentation
• Support local/statutory requirements
• Research technical and operational accounting guidance and determine relevant application
• Clearly and consistently establish priorities for team and manage workload, deliverables and competing priorities
• Consistently identify and remediate issues and risks prior to user or financial statement impacts
• Manage and lead singular audit activities or large elements of the Pfizer consolidated audit including the timely and accurate provision of all deliverables, serving as primary point of contact
• Actively (formally and informally) mentor colleagues outside of your direct report team
• Demonstrate ability to effectively deal with conflict and confrontation (e.g. managerial courage)
• Serve as subject matter expert and process owner for global, key accounting activities
• Lead Operational Transformation activities by demonstrating strategic planning, anticipating functional requirements and proposing solutions, identifying root cause on performance issues and process bottlenecks and developing key performance indicators and metrics to track performance

How You Will Achieve It

• Act as point of escalation for direct reports to resolve issues impacting the successful completion of assigned tasks; listen to and explain difficult issues to reach shared understanding and build alignment; communicate and escalate as required in a timely manner
• Ensure activities are performed to a high standard of operational excellence, established service level agreements and deadlines are met, and adhere to defined process/control requirements
• Act as a Business Partner to stakeholders and ensure hand-offs between teams are successfully met with timely flow of information to appropriate individuals
• Encourage participation and perspectives of all team members
• Utilize strong understanding of accounting principles and departmental knowledge to achieve and assign work to team members
• Manage multiple projects/ongoing work activities (timelines, work plans, deliverables) of moderate complexity within team
• Establish tactical activities for team to support day-to-day and effectively communicate to direct reports, peers and management with regards to work tasks and deadlines
• Identify opportunities for continuous process improvement/strategic transformation and support innovative solutions to operate in an efficient and cost-effective manner
• Manage the performance and development of colleagues through goal setting, ongoing assessment and coaching to build a high performing and engaged team. Provide direction, training, andmotivation necessary to secure their optimum commitment, competence, and engagement
• Recognize and help manage change (may be of an incremental nature) that impacts the immediate work team
• Act as a team culture champion to instill, encourage, and manage Pfizer culture for all direct reports and ensure strong team engagement, as measured by Pulse surveys, PLI evaluations, and goal achievement
• Lead site/R2R initiatives

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree in accounting or finance discipline with Masters degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required
• Public accounting experience strongly preferred
• Practical experience of US GAAP and Statutory Accounting/Experience of other GAAPs required
• SAP & HFM experience strongly preferred.
• International experience seen as a plus
• English proficiency required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or international equivalent (ACCA) required
• Management and supervisory experience required.
• Master’s degree preferred.

OTHER SKILLS:

• Strong leadership to lead and motivate teams
• Ability to create a highly energized environment of exceptional performance, shared accountability and personnel excellence, with a commitment to coaching and developing others
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communications skills, acting as a liaison between your team and management
• Excellent business acumen to develop effective strategic business partnership with key stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to solve moderately complex problems
• Solid understanding of accounting and finance principles
• Proven experience in managing multiple projects/ongoing work activities of moderate complexity within a work team
• Ability to make decisions that impact primarily work team short-term objectives
• Ability to identify and implement improvements to existing work processes/products
• Demonstrates strong technical/functional knowledge to coach direct reports on day-to-day activities
• Good understanding of industry knowledge and business operations
• Ability to manage and lead people, technological, and financial resources for multiple projects and ongoing work activities
• Understand the functionality, interfaces and interdependencies of Pfizer’s financial processes and systems