Corporate Finance Manager

Corporate Finance Manager (M/F/d)

permanent position in Vienna

You can look forward to:
Pfizer's Global Business Solutions (GBS) Financial Solution organization delivers best-in-class accounting, finance and compliance operations globally for the Pfizer enterprise. The industry-leading GBS value proposition is to centralize, standardize and optimize complex processes and in delivering a quality service at a reasonable cost with a compliance mindset. The scope of services provided by the GBS finance organization include Record to Report processes: Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Statutory Reporting, Financial Reporting, the Intercompany Center of Excellence (CoE), Financial Master Data Governance, Risk Management / Compliance, Capital CoE, Inventory CoE and Balance Sheet CoE; Transaction Processing in Invoice to Pay, Indirect Tax, Order to Cash, Credit Risk and Gross to Net, Manufacturing Finance support; Operational Transfer Pricing CoE; GFS Treasury Operations CoE, and MAPP Administration CoE. The Corporate Finance Manager is accountable for ensuring local Country Management strategies and planning are in alignment with statutory, legal, regulatory and jurisdictional guidance. The role together with Business Finance provides Finance services in market to ensure Pfizer’s continued operations. The Financial Controller manages financial matters with respect to the commercial Legal Entities in market. The role acts as the primary “in market” liaison and single point of escalation for any financial operational issues between the Country Manager, Business Finance and the GFS organization, and advises country management on the proper statutory financial treatment for market specific plans. This role requires extensive collaboration with Business Finance, Country Management and market teams as well as GFS Statutory CoE and the Regional and Global GFS sites and COE leaderships to ensure the integrity of Pfizer market financial data.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Accountable for ensuring the market’s financial operations are aligned with statutory, legal, regulatory and jurisdictional guidance.
- Advises country management on the proper statutory financial treatment for market specific strategies and plans
- Responsible for all legal entity company secretarial requirements for their market where required
- Responsible for gross to net revenue accruals and accounting.
- Responsible for monthly close process including P&L analyses
- Lead statutory market audit, prepare market audit documentation and financial statement bridges
- Prepare annual management report
- Acts as primary liaison with pension fund actuary for the pension funds in their jurisdiction. Determines financial implications for changes in pension valuation and plans to address.
- Actively participates in periodic profit reviews with the OTP COE ensuring that profit adjustments account for any local GAAP/US GAAP differences.
- Provides local market intelligence and knowledge to support transfer pricing in market in conjunction with the OTP COE.
- Issues the monthly employer contribution payments and coordinates timely submission together with payroll team
- Serves as finance market contact between Statutory COE and KPMG (external auditors) for market audits
- Serves as the local point of contact between Global Tax, tax authorities and local finance, for any tax audits
- Prepares local statutory GAAP technical accounting guidance papers and provide technical advice as it relates to local statutory accounting
- Prepare GL account reconciliations
- Responsible for local bank account management (create / delete users, provide accounting details to R2R)
- Responsible for annual speaker renumeration submission (Art 109 submission)
- Responsible for master data maintenance (Cost Centers, Cost Center Tax Tag, WBS Elements, GL Accounts)

You offer:

- University degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics or Professional accounting designation, such as CPA, Chartered Accountant (as per market norms).
- 5-10 years of experience in finance, accounting or business, with significant experience in controllership and tax
- Fluent German and English is required
- Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional business relationships with leaders and finance team peers across borders and virtually
- Previous experience of project management in a matrix environment
- Proven track record in developing external relationships with local financial regulatory authorities and leadership in the local finance community
- Visible demonstration of and performance record in exemplifying the Pfizer Values and Behaviors
- Outstanding communication, collaboration and influence skills; ability to influence at all levels, be persuasive, a good listener and assimilator of diverse ideas and perspectives
- ERP/SAP knowledge required

We offer:

- Attractive remuneration
- Corporate health management like „Pfizer in Balance“, vaccination programs, medical checkups, first-aid-traini