Pfizer Looking for Vp Finance at New York, NY, United States Full Time

Job Description

The Vice President Emerging Markets (EM) Finance is responsible for financial leadership, business consultation and analytical support for the Pfizer Emerging Asia, Africa/Middle East, and Latin America Commercial operations. The 2022 Op Plan for this highly diverse and dynamic Business Unit (BU) exceeds $15B including Comirnaty and Paxlovid.
Through insightful understanding of the business, rigorous review and partnership with Business Leaders, the Vice President EM is responsible for development and execution of strategies, delivery of financial commitments and optimal deployment of capital across the regions. This role serves as a key business partner to the EM leadership team (LT) and the EM BU President and requires significant coordination with other senior leaders globally on complex matters that influence the direction of business strategy and decisions.
This position is a member in EM LT and the Biopharma Commercial Finance LT.
The position has three Regional Finance Directors reporting directly into the role and a total of 84 Business Finance colleagues across the EM regions
The role is highly matrixed and works closely with Audit, Compliance, Controllers, GFS, Tax and Treasury as it relates to oversight and commercial strategy & operations across the regions.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
This role is responsible for direct business partner and financial decision support for the Emerging Markets Business Unit (EM BU) President and Leadership Team (EM LT). This role will also be a key member of the EM LT requiring significant direct interaction with other Commercial LT members including Regional Presidents, Global Commercial leads, Medical, Access, Strategy/Business Development, Health and Value, Business Analytics & Insights, etc. Responsibilities will include:

• Providing business partner support and financial counsel for all commercial initiatives across the BU
• Partnering with Commercial to establish EM growth strategies, brand strategies, and supporting key product launches
• Providing financial counsel and leadership on key Go-to-Market initiatives, BU transformations and BD opportunities
• Ensuring accuracy and integrity of financial forecasting and reporting, maintaining strong internal controls and compliance
• Ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and adherence to Pfizer’s policies and procedures
• Providing monthly and quarterly analysis and metrics to Biopharma Finance and Executive Leadership to assess and report on financial performance versus operating plan, forecast, and prior periods
• Design and direct the preparation of insightful and actionable financial analyses, key messages and presentations which provide transparency of the BU situation and aid critical senior management decisions
• Analyzing key business trends and proactively identify and communicate issues, opportunities and/or threats and collaborate with BU leadership to resolve them
• Providing financial support and counsel to Commercial and Legal for all Comirnaty and Paxlovid country agreements
• Providing financial oversight of the Global Commercial Access Partnership (GCAP) organization including all activities with GAVI, UNICEF, COVAX along with other corporate wide LIC/LMIC initiatives (i.e., African Union project)
• Actively manage and support all working capital initiatives across the regions including AR/DSO and inventory wo’s
• Providing managerial leadership to BU Finance team including promoting a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality
• Actively support compliance system and process enhancements and assume a leadership role in ensuring the highest level of compliance is embedded across all levels of the organization and its culture

REQUIRED BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years of business finance experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business or finance
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Strong understanding of financial processes and controls
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix organizational structure and to effectively develop business partner relationships is critical
• Previous experience in managing in a large complex environment at a global scale
• Proven leadership, communication, and interpersonal / relationship management skills, including executive level interactions; successful experience managing managers and colleagues across wide spectrum of cultures and geographies; high performance history of providing clear direction, team alignment, executing priorities and delivering results
• Proven analytical skills with the ability to analyze and assimilate data for critical business decisions in a timely manner
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize/manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a time sensitive environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills demonstrating the ability to effectively summarize information in clear, concise, and insightful updates
• Demonstrate courage, excellence, equity, and joy and embody our values and behaviors

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or CPA
• Experience in Life Sciences

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Role based in NYC and will require international travel
• Given global nature of role, require off hour calls in regions with different time zones (Asia, AFME)

Other Job Details:

• Last Date to Apply for Job: February 10, 2022
  
• Eligible for relocation assistance

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