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Job Description
Statutory COE Accountant role at Pfizer in Dublin 4, for a 12-month contract, involves preparing financial statements, audit deliverables, and statistical reporting.
Job Description
The Statutory Reporting Centre of Excellence has a number of accounting responsibilities, particularly end-to-end Local GAAP reporting activities and US GAAP related activities. The Statutory CoE Accountant is an important member of a team focused on the on-time and accurate completion of financial statements, audit delivery, statistical reporting, and key GBS deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare statutory financial statements in line with local requirements.
- Prepare audit deliverables for KPMG GBS, KPMG Market and Internal Audit.
- Work with KPMG to ensure timely and satisfactory completion of audits under Local GAAP.
- Maintain Local GAAP ledgers ensuring information is updated in a timely and accurate manner.
- Prepare US GAAP quarterly controls, including post-submissions analytics.
- Develop effective working relationships with key stakeholders in market finance and GBS.
- Act as a first point of contact for key stakeholders, both internally and with external parties.
- Support implementation of new business technology and reporting tools around financial statement preparation.
- Contribute to team effort and assist other colleagues as needed.
- Proactively identify, rectify and follow-up on local accounting issues arising.
- Ensure adherence to controls and a robust controls culture.
- Identify opportunities for process continuous improvement and implement solutions.
- Support departmental, ad-hoc and other projects as required.
Requirements
- University Degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting.
- Qualified Accountant or equivalent.
- Knowledge and practical experience of Local and US GAAPs preferred.
- Minimum 3+ years of related accounting experience required.
- Experience in a shared services/multinational environment preferred.
- Strong accounting, interpersonal, analytical and organisational skills a prerequisite.
- Ability to work independently, under pressure and handle conflicting priorities.
- SAP experience preferred.
- Proficiency in PC skills (inc. Word and Excel).
Organisational Relationships
- Audit Coordination Team
- Invoice to Pay Team
- Order to Cash Team
- Fixed Assets COE
- Intercompany COE
- Inventory COE
- Treasury COE
- Cash Management COE
- Tax Team
- Corporate Reporting Team