Senior Financial Analyst

This position reports to the Director, Portfolio Management and provides essential financial support to C-TIES Digital, ensuring that we achieve our semester-based project expense targets, adhere to financial policies, and fulfill all our reporting commitments to Finance and other parties requiring financial information.

The key responsibilities for this position include:

• Contributes to the development of the annual project portfolio budget and quarterly forecasts in the P3 portfolio management tool
• Assists in managing one-time costs across all funding sources (capital, expense and restructuring) to establish financial targets
• Review project expense accruals to ensure that the costs of services performed, and goods received are accurately stated
• Monitor projects as they move through the development lifecycle from the approval stage to close-out
• Manages WBS elements for project cost tracking, from creation to closure
• Manages project health indicators across the entire project portfolio
• Assist with ongoing cost data collection to support the annual budget transfer process
• Uses business intelligence tools to analyze large data sets to improve decision-making
• Develop and maintain internal Standard Operating Procedures

Project Portfolio

• Collaborates with the Portfolio Management Team to manage $175 million in annual project expenses across all funding sources (capital, expense, and restructuring)
• Manage the monthly capital two-way match (2WM) accrual process, ensuring project managers review and accrue for the costs of services performed per our financial policies
• Prepare monthly project variance reporting to be used for monthly financial review meetings with our leadership teams (LT)
• Work with project managers to collect project variance explanations versus budget and the latest forecast
• Identify permanent and temporary favorability/risk and work with teams to adjust forecast in P3 as needed
• Collaborate with teams to develop quarterly forecast submissions and future year scenarios
• Offer continuous financial support to teams to help them comprehend costs incurred and guide them towards the collective achievement of established financial targets
• Manage project health indicators by working with project managers to update project status, percentage complete, start and end dates as well as forecast and actuals accuracy to ensure that P3 is updated with the latest information for accurate enterprise project management reporting
• Work with project managers to collect ongoing costs resulting from projects to include as part of the annual budget transfer process
• Identify ongoing cost charges hitting closed projects and work with project managers to update the Compliance Master Batch Documents (CMDB) system with the correct cost center and/or charge codes

Project Accounting

• Create WBS elements in SAP to track one-time project costs
• Manage the entire lifecycle of project codes, from their initial creation to their eventual closure
• Participate in master data management activities, which include creating project codes, maintaining data tables, and similar tasks

Continuous Improvement

• Identify manual and routine activities within our processes and automate them using the Power Automate Desktop tool, to help streamline operations and reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks
• Explore and implement generative artificial intelligence opportunities to enhance our efficiency and innovation
• Develop and maintain internal Standard Operating Procedures to ensure a smooth and efficient training process for our new hires

  
REQUIRED BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 3 years of experience; OR a master's degree with more than 1 year of experience; or an associate's degree with 6 years of experience; OR a high school diploma or equivalent and 8 years of relevant experience
• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior Pfizer work experience
• Technical Skills
  • Analytical capabilities to understand and explain financial variances
  • Results-driven with the ability to drive cost savings and achieve financial targets
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and effective use of other Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint, Word)
  • Experience with Tableau is a plus
  • Adaptable and quick to act on projects
  • Demonstrates accountability and is a self-starter