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

Your expertise and skills will help Pfizer build robust financial controls to manage its finance and accounting practices. You will put in place system controls and determine the operation's consistency with corporate objectives and standards through various verification methods and processes. You will identify internal control gaps in business procedures, processes or systems, and initiate appropriate remedial actions.

As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.

It is your dedication that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Perform Purchase Requisition review and approval using formal work instructions and policy documents
• Review, understand, confirm and/or validate information included as part of a Purchase Requisition
• Engage with Pfizer end users, internal stakeholders (Procurement, Finance, etc.), and suppliers as necessary to complete the Purchase Requisition review
• Weekly review of Audit Findings: when received an audit notification, review the finding details, whether correct or not, a reply must be sent
• Daily review of e-mails received (Validate if any urgent/special request has been sent
• Use procurement and financial systems and tools
• Attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
• Capability to manage complex/critical scenarios
• Organizes own workload, prioritizes, and proactively follows up on outstanding items
• Responsible for end to end issue resolution related to purchase requisition process
• Works towards and maintains agreed metrics and goals
• Has strong analytical and process management skills
• Actively supports our GBS value proposition by keeping processes aligned with our delivery model and global standard, adhering to our internal controls structures and help identifying process improvement opportunities
• Supports and co-leads select in-house processes, continuous improvement initiatives, and stakeholder collaborations
• Independently manages formal relationship with key internal stakeholders and colleagues of diverse backgrounds, including different departments, cultures, business units and countries
• Responsible for keeping accurate and up-to-date Work Instructions, Job Aids and Desktop Procedures documentation
• Assist the management team and other colleagues as needed
• Responsible for the maintenance and consistent application of Pfizer and GBS Americas policies
• Capable to make basic decisions over daily responsibilities
• Promptly escalates operative and legal issues to his/her manager
• Maintains focus customer service
• Communication skills (written and verbal) – effectively communicate with internal and external customers and vendors
• Good understanding of system functionality and processes
• Participate on organization committees
• Seek opportunities to be mentored by others
• Demonstrate ownership of personal and professional development
• Ability to operate independently and remain focused through change or uncertainty

Qualifications

Must-Have

• University degree/ongoing University studies or technical high school degree in a finance related field
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office, especially MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Fluent in English speaking. Portuguese (is a plus)
• Working knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, ARIBA, MDGS preferred)
• Communication and customer service skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Capability to manage complex/critical scenarios
• KPI's and measurement basic understanding

Nice-to-Have

• 0-2 years of relevant functional accounting or finance experience.
• Internal/external audit management experience.
• Desired experience in multinationals, shared services or  finance related if applicable
• Pharmaceutical industry or contracts experience
• System application & products / Oracle experience
• Demonstrated ability to work on own initiative with limited oversight
• Good organizational skills to coordinate and manage multiple priorities

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.