Job Description

Role Summary

Pfizer's Global Business Services - Financial Services (FS) organization delivers best-in-class accounting, finance and compliance operations globally for the Pfizer enterprise. This organization is a high performing team comprised of more than 1600 colleagues primarily located in 6 hubs around the world, in addition to an outsourced workforce of 250 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 include Record to Report processes: US Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Statutory Reporting, Financial Reporting, Intercompany, Financial Master Data Governance, Risk Management & Compliance, Capital, Inventory, Lease and Balance Sheet; Transaction Processing in Invoice to Pay, Indirect Tax, Order to Cash, Credit Risk and Gross to Net; Operational Transfer Pricing; GBS Treasury Operations, and MAPP Administration.

The Controls Optimization (CO) Center of Excellence is part of the Risk Management & Compliance function focused on governance and continued optimization of Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting (ICFR). The CO Lead will be responsible for:

* Engaging stakeholders to ensure strong control environment is maintained. Stakeholders include Internal Audit, Controllers, Digital, Global Process Leads, Business Process Owners and the community of control performers and approvers.
* Providing control guidance and educating user groups around governance, change management, process optimization and transformation, digital, audit and control performance reporting
* Supporting ICFR controls globally leveraging the SPA Process Control (SAP PC) platform
* Partnering on transformational initiatives (M&A, divestures, etc) to integrate control requirements into design
* Leading continuous improvement initiatives

Role Responsibilities

* Leadership role on team responsible for below activities:
* Governance of global ICFR activities and related documentation
* Control performance monitoring and reporting and executing escalation protocol
* Corporate Audit and KPMG global testing support
* Partnering with broader RM&C team to complete proactive risk assessment activities
* Developing and executing annual global process documentation reviews
* Continued process optimization and consulting on related control implications
* Support of all internal and external audit readiness activities for all functional groups
* Developing and delivering periodic updates and trainings with all stakeholders to communicate best practices and emerging control topics
* Supporting remediation of control deficiencies
* Researching and resolving discrepancies and complex technical accounting issues as necessary

Additionally, The CO Lead will be expected to:

* Consistently identify process improvement opportunities including the timely implementation of solutions
* Lead global projects and other initiatives in addition to existing role and responsibility
* Actively (formally and informally) mentor key colleagues outside of your direct report team
* Demonstrated ability to effectively deal with conflict and confrontation
* Recognized as Pfizer subject matter expert for regional and key accounting activities
* Willingness to accept occasional travel for meetings and projects
* Engage directly with customers and business partners on complex activities and deliverables; maintain effective relationships with business partners
* Can be counted on to exceed goals and deliverables successfully; maintains a sense of urgency
* Leading 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

Qualifications

Education & Experience

* Bachelor degree in accounting or finance required
* Masters degree preferred
* CPA required (or equivalent international certification)
* 5+ years of relevant functional accounting or finance experience
* Public accounting experience preferred
* Key ERP and edge system experience preferred
* Experience in ICOFR and SOX
* Experience navigating a large, complex organization and managing stakeholders interests using a matrixed organization
* Strong project management skills
* Experience influencing and executing complex solutions involving multiple groups
* Experience in developing and executing raining at all levels of the organization

Technical Skills Requirements

* Advanced accounting, compliance and financial reporting skills that include the following:

* Excellent analytical skills with a demonstrated ability in risk identification, measurement and assessment, risk monitoring, reporting and escalation
* Demonstrated advanced technical US GAAP and financial reporting knowledge and experience
* Proficiency with Microsoft O365 suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Sharepoint, OneDrive and Teams) required
* Experience with workflow automation, data analytics, and visualization tools preferred (e.g. Alteryx, Power Automate, Tableau, Spotfire, and Power BI)
* Advanced Excel skills
* Excellent oral, written, and overall communication skills
* Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
* Ability to informally and formally develop and influence staff and senior accountants through coaching/mentoring.
* Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and solve problems in an unstructured environment
* Strong business acumen and professionalism with the ability to interface effectively with all levels of management and operations colleagues in all applicable Pfizer Finance and business functional areas
* Ability to perform and deliver in areas involving ambiguity

Other Job Details:

* Last Date to Apply for Job: April 16, 2021
* Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus
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