Sr Manager, Solution Engineering

Role Summary

The Sr. Manager Solution Engineer is a role that works with Finance leaders to ensure alignment of Pfizer Digital objectives to the business requirements/process and to anticipate future business needs in “Financial Planning & Reporting” areas of Pfizer.

In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible to lead new developments and upgrade projects and will be required to manage cross functional teams comprising of internal and external resources.  This position will also play a key role in advancing our Digital Strategy and driving transformational change across Finance.

Role responsibilities

• Anticipate business needs based on good understanding of business processes and requirements
• Translate business needs into high value solutions, leveraging existing systems and solutions where possible and ensuring solutions are reusable and configurable
• Coordinate design, build and test activities
• Provide project management, financial tracking and presentation of status reports to Pfizer Digital and Finance leaders
• Ensure that solutions are aligned with the overall Pfizer Digital strategy and that requirements are reflected in the final product
• Document requirements prepare test scripts and implementation plans
• Provide technology recommendations to address business requirements in the following areas:
  • Oracle/Hyperion EPM Cloud tools supporting data consolidation, budgeting and forecasting processes
  • Integration Strategy, leveraging tools such as Oracle Data Integrator(ODI), Informatica and others
  • Cloud-based architectures, such as AWS
• Ensure timely and concise communication, anticipate and manage escalation processes
• Ensure service delivery standards are maintained and work with necessary local, regional and global teams to escalate issues
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities to improve system performance and end user functionality
• Maintain expert level technical knowledge in all areas of financial management solutions, industry trends, competitive offerings, and internal Pfizer offerings

Organizational relationships

• Interactions within Digital and with the various Business stakeholders within the “Finance Planning & Reporting” space, such as Commercial Finance, Consolidation Services, PGS Finance, etc.
• Ability to manage Pfizer Vendor resources and liaison with exterior vendors like Oracle, Accenture, Deloitte, and others

Supervision

• Multiple Vendor resources based on Projects being executed

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline
• 7 years designing, building, and supporting technology solutions
• 5 years of relevant experience in a finance environment and/or with financial systems
• 5 years of relevant experience in EPM Implementations including HFM/FCCS, Planning/EPBCS and DRM/EDMCS
• 5 years of experience with Data Integration/ETL Tools like Oracle Data Integrator(ODI) or Informatica
• 5 years of experience with PL/SQL , Integration tools and Informatica
• 2+ years of experience with cloud-based architecture, such as AWS
• Demonstrate strong project management, analytical and problem solving/debugging skills
• Demonstrate experience with full software lifecycle methodology
• Demonstrate ability to be highly organized and detailed oriented
• Effective communications at project team level, meeting facilitation and presentations
• Demonstrate solid understanding of financial related processes and technologies, financial statement structures and budgeting and forecasting processes
• Strong ability to articulate complicated issues across levels, functions as well as geographic regions and cultures
• Ability to challenge assumptions and engage in active conversations with colleagues and management regarding possible improvements and changes to the status quo

Preferred qualifications

• Working knowledge of .Net, Java Unix and other tools

Other info

• Role is located in Milan (Italy)
• Hybrid working model
• Potential travel required for critical project work < 20%
• Relocation package is not available

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