GBS Global Financial Operations
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About the role
Why Pfizer
A career at Pfizer offers opportunity, ownership and impact. All over the world, Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success, contribute to an ownership culture that values diverse perspectives, and impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer seeks talent inspired by our purpose: breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
Role Summary
Lead Global Finance Operations across assigned regions and markets. Own market-finance operations, reporting, financial statements and audit, controls, stakeholder engagement and regional transformation, translating global standards into reliable execution while protecting financial integrity.
What You Will Achieve
- Accurate, timely and controlled regional outputs
- Reliable market execution with clear ownership and hand-offs
- Stronger reporting integrity and faster issue resolution
- Timely financial-statement and audit completion
- Consistent controls, resilience and sustained transformation adoption
How You Will Achieve It
- You will direct retained market-finance activities, including in-market accounting, pensions, provisions, cost-center and payroll dependencies, to ensure reliable execution and service continuity.
- You will oversee reconciliations, balance-sheet and profit-and-loss reviews, revenue adjustments, rebates and supplemental reporting, resolving material variances, aged items and unsupported balances.
- You will lead market execution of statutory journals, financial-statement preparation, disclosures, review, finalization and audit support.
- You will serve as the senior Global Finance Operations interface for Market and Regional Finance, maintaining visibility of accounting, service, control and capacity risks and driving issues to closure.
- You will embed policies, control evidence, approvals and retention requirements, addressing audit actions, data-quality concerns, recurring exceptions and business-continuity risks.
- You will implement the Global Finance Operations optimization agenda through standardization, simplified hand-offs, centralization and automation, reducing unnecessary local variation and measuring adoption and benefits.
- You will oversee financial matters for commercial legal entities across assigned regions and markets, ensuring financial stewardship, governance and integrity of market financial information and alignment with applicable statutory, legal, regulatory, tax and jurisdictional requirements.
- You will partner with Market and Regional Finance, Country Management and Commercial Finance leadership to provide effective finance leadership across assigned markets, supporting business objectives and operational continuity while safeguarding financial integrity.
- You will ensure appropriate Finance support for local legal-entity governance and Board requirements, including Finance representation on local Boards of Directors where applicable, and will be accountable for delivery against agreed operational budgets, productivity commitments and approved transformation business cases.
- You will build and sustain a strong, inclusive and connected GBS culture that creates a shared sense of purpose across teams, locations and capabilities. You will champion transparent communication, collaboration, recognition, development and colleague voice, using engagement insights and feedback to strengthen the colleague experience, organizational effectiveness and sustained business performance.
Decision Rights and Role Boundaries
The role sets direction and makes decisions within its defined operational or process scope. It recommends or co-decides material remediation, approved exceptions, operating-model changes, transformation priorities and investment needs with the appropriate leaders. It does not own enterprise policy, formal audit or tax opinions, final investment approval, business decisions outside its scope, or enterprise technology architecture.
Basic Qualifications
- University degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics, or a professional accounting designation.
- Successful candidates typically have at least 12 years of Finance or Global Finance Operations experience, including regional or multi-market leadership.
- Proven experience leading managers and colleagues across multiple countries, cultures and geographies.
- Deep expertise in reconciliations, statutory close, financial statements, disclosures, audit support, controls and operational resilience.
- Experience partnering with senior Finance, GBS, Market, Treasury, Tax, Audit and specialist stakeholders across borders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced finance or business qualification aligned to the role.
- CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent professional accounting designation, as applicable to market norms.
- Pharmaceutical, healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience.
- Track record implementing global standards, centralization, process improvement and automation.
Key Relationships
- Market and Regional Finance
- GFO, Centers of Excellence and GBS leaders
- Finance leadership and Global Process Owners
- Controllers, Tax, Treasury and Audit
- Commercial, Market Access, Digital, Data, Controls and Transformation partners
Capabilities and Leadership Expectations
- Enterprise leadership and sound, risk-based decision making
- Clear executive communication and influence across global and regional stakeholders
- Financial stewardship, control discipline and timely issue escalation
- Change leadership, adoption and measurable value realization
- Colleague development, inclusive leadership and succession planning, where applicable
- Digital and AI fluency, with the ability to translate business and control needs into scalable solutions
Other Job Details:
- Last day to Apply: November 5th, 2026
- Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided applies to the Tampa, FL location only. The salary range provided does not apply to any other United States location or locations outside of the United States.
This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
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EEO & Employment Eligibility
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