Senior Associate, Core Operations

Why Patients Need You

At Pfizer, we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives. We apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety, and value in the discovery, development, and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments, and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments, and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 170 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.

Pfizer has expanded our global footprint with a new office in Tampa at the Heights Union East Building. We are quickly building a community of colleagues that align with our common patient-focused purpose and Pfizer’s core values. Pfizer Tampa is a strategic powerhouse that creates an atmosphere for innovative ideas and best practices across Finance, HR, Digital, and Sourcing. Pfizer colleagues are diverse and highly skilled with extensive knowledge, deep expertise, and strategic capabilities across multiple functions. Pfizer Tampa is a dynamic and energizing environment where diverse colleagues are co-located to facilitate greater colleague collaboration, new ways of working, and enhanced simplification through more integrated end-to-end solutions.

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.

Role Summary

This role reports into the Pfizer Core Operations group. Core Operations is part of the Controller’s organization in Pfizer and plays a vital role in the collection, consolidation and reporting of financial information for the company, as well as the preparation of metrics over various financial reporting areas. The team collaborates with global, market, regional and HQ Business Finance as it relates to various data collection activities (sales, trial balance, inventory markup and supplemental/disclosure data), data submission requirements, systems/process training, and internal and external financial reporting and analysis.

This position within the Core Operations group is responsible for the preparation/review of key financial schedules/analytics and execution of financial reporting processes that are critical to the consolidated financial reporting both internally and externally for Pfizer. In accomplishing this, the individual in this role will interact with colleagues globally across numerous functions within Pfizer’s Finance & Business Operations organization and will be expected to not only execute their job responsibilities with a high degree of integrity and quality, but also be an active contributor to continuous improvement initiatives.

Role Responsibilities

• Prepare quarterly and monthly schedules in the Flash Package provided to senior management.

• Provide summarized analysis of assigned P&L areas, and present results in quarterly review meetings with the Controller and other finance executives.

• Review and consolidate balance sheet activity for leveraging knowledge of business operations and expertise in financial systems/tools.

• Prepare footnote disclosures for inclusion in external filings 10Q/10K, including related External Reporting tasks.

• Prepare US GAAP journal entries in support of legal entity rationalization projects and Tax Reorganizations ensuring proper equity accounting throughout ownership chains, intercompany account positions, and consolidated company eliminations.

• Prepare metrics over financial reporting for Management with a focus on continuous improvement geared toward conveying risks/opportunities through review of KPI’s.

• Assist in identifying and executing continuous improvement opportunities in order to achieve ‘Best In Class’ close process and partner with manager and process stakeholders to implement continuous improvement opportunities to enhance quality, increase efficiency, and improve effectiveness of the close process.