Accountant, Global Accounting - Inventory

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San Jose, Escazu, Escazu
Hybrid
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
The Role
As an Accountant in Global Accounting - Inventory at Pfizer, you will analyze financial records, manage general accounting functions, and provide guidance on inventory and cost accounts. You will lead projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and support audit activities while maintaining accurate financial documentation and procedures.
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Use Your Power for Purpose
At Pfizer, your financial expertise and deep knowledge are essential in keeping our products in production and our innovators at the forefront of innovation. Whether you are involved in establishing, coordinating, researching, or managing financial operations, your role is crucial in ensuring our medicines reach the people who need them most, faster and more efficiently than ever before. Your contributions in financial administration, research, and coordination are vital to our mission of delivering life-saving medicines to patients swiftly and effectively. Your skills and dedication help streamline our processes, making a significant impact on the speed and efficiency with which we can provide essential treatments.
What You Will Achieve
Your financial skills will help in examining, verifying and analyzing business records and transactions concerning financial status and operating procedures based on historical costs. You will also analyze the costs of operations and perform traditional general accounting functions. You will analyze inventory and cost accounts, monitor and control SKU master data. You will analyst and perform Intercompany accruals between inter-companies, provide F2C support and BSA comment for inventory accounts.
You are recognized as an advisor to other colleagues in your group due to your comprehensive knowledge and skills in finance and accounting, and your understanding of the larger organization. You are innovative in identifying solutions to problems by taking a broader perspective that benefits the organization. You encourage collaboration and communication within the team and across groups to influence desired outcomes. You train others and provide guidance to the team that helps us achieve our goal of providing the best healthcare to patients.
It is your dedication that will help make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It

  • Contribute to the completion of project milestones and organize own work to meet project task deadlines.
  • Identify issues proactively and communicate to manager along with potential range of solutions.
  • Prepare financial and accounting analysis completely and accurately.
  • Maintain elements of domestic and/or international general ledgers including the preparation of journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations.
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date Work Instructions, Job Aids and Desktop Procedures documentation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and colleagues of diverse backgrounds, including different departments, cultures, business units and countries.
  • Lead selects activities involving the month end close, take initiative to understand complex problems and consistently meet deadlines with little to no assistance.
  • Lead the implementation of continuous improvement projects.
  • Engage directly with business partners on routine activities and deliverables.
  • Work independently to produce standard and regular reports as required for the operation.
  • Assist in providing key support for internal and external related audit activities, including the timely and accurate delivery of audit requests.
  • Prepare complete and accurate standard operating procedures and Sarbanes-Oxley related internal control documentation involving new activities and/or process changes as required.


Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance or related
  • Demonstrated experience in finance or accounting with the ability to deal with numbers accurately
  • Proficiency in MS Office, particularly MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Fluency in English speaking and writing, B2
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Proven ability to maintain professionalism and possesses the ability to interface with all levels of colleagues


Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

  • Pharmaceutical industry experience
  • Cost accounting / GRIR and Reconciliation experience
  • Public accounting experience
  • Enterprise Resource Planning {e.g. SAP} system experience
  • System Application & Products and Hyperion Financial Management skills
  • Demonstrates problem solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills


Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, or disability.
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Year Founded: 1848

What We Do

Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.

Why Work With Us

We are the inventors, the problem solvers, the big thinkers — those who surmount any hurdle to deliver breakthrough medicines to the people who are counting on them the most.

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