P2p Analyst

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's Global Business Services (GBS) Shared Services is a well-established operation with beginnings in Memphis, Tenn., in 1997. The organization expanded to Europe in 2003, Asia in 2007, Latin America in 2013, Eastern Europe in 2014 and AFME in 2016. GBS Shared Services has a workforce of more than 1,000 Pfizer colleagues.

The GBS San Jose Financial Services is a high performing team responsible for the timely delivery of standardized financial processes on behalf of Biopharmaceutical Finance and their business partners for the Emerging Markets. The organization performs certain Record-to-Report, Procure -to-Pay, Travel & Entertainment, Order-to-Cash and other related activities from regionally centralized locations in San Jose, Costa Rica.

What You Will Achieve

The GBS (Global Business Services) Financial Services - San Jose Procure-to-Pay Purchase Requisition Analyst will be a key player within the P2P organization. This position will be as main contact for local finance and all regions supported by GBS San Jose, performing sensible activities such as accounts payables inquiries and processing, controls related performance, inquiries regarding any issue related to the P2P process such as purchase requisition status and approval. In addition, this role provides exposure with the Senior Leadership of the P2P organization, enabling the participation in different tasks like monthly aging or metrics reviews, detail process review, executing and guaranteeing excellence on the audit controls related to the process that applies for the P2P organization.

The objective of this role is to enable GBS Procure to Pay to meet their business objectives by providing quality accounts payable analysis and overall business support for Site Leadership and market colleagues.

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
- Use procurement and financial systems and tools
- Attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
- 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
- Ensure the timely and proper execution of adequate internal controls, understanding our SOP proposing updates when the documentation does not align with our day-to-day processes
- Responsible for keeping accurate and up-to-date Work Instructions, Job Aids and Desktop Procedures documentation

**Qualifications**:
Must-Have
- Bachelor’s degree or in progress in Business, Accounting, or Finance
- 1-4 years of relevant functional accounting or finance experience
- Proficiency in MS Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Good written and verbal English communication skills required, any other language if required by the business Portuguese (is a plus)
- Accounting Finance knowledge
- Proven experience in multinationals, shared services or finance related if applicable
- Working knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, ARIBA, MDGS preferred)

Nice-to-Have
- Communication and customer service skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Capability to manage complex/critical scenarios
- KPI's and measurement basic understanding

Work Location Assignment: Flexible

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

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