Global Transparency Reporting Senior Associate

ROLE SUMMARY
The Global Transparency Reporting Senior Associate will contribute to the effort to generate high quality, accurate, and consistent data incorporated into the postings, filings and reports related to Healthcare Professional (HCP), Healthcare Organization (HCO) and Patient Organization (PO) payment disclosures for the markets assigned.
The Senior Associate will utilize global transparency reporting standards, processes and the Pfizer Transparency Repository system (PTRS) to collect, monitor, reconcile and correct data from multiple financial/expense/customer engagement sources (both internal and external) throughout the year to ensure data quality and completeness. This includes but is not limited to looking for duplicate transactions, outliers, data errors and feeding back opportunities for process improvement to source systems and business data owners. This position is ultimately accountable for ensuring the accompanying standards, processes and data are of high quality to meet the HCP/HCO/PO transfer of value disclosure commitments in the markets assigned as required by local codes and laws.
The Senior Associate will collaborate with market implementation leads, compliance and legal stakeholders as needed to ensure timely production of transparency reports. Additionally, this position will partner with Business Process Owners across the organization including Finance, Commercial, Legal/Compliance, Medical Evidence Development, Digital and the global transparency reporting CoE to ensure that PTRS, source systems, HCP/HCO/PO customer master and other applicable Pfizer systems evolve to meet public disclosure needs.
The Senior Associate provides key services in the execution of the operations to support the Transparency initiatives. The Senior Associate must bring a level of rigor and consistency in providing high-level service while ensuring compliance with the established procedures.
The role will partner with the Senior Manager to ensure the processes in place are optimal and meet all internal and external reporting obligations for assigned data sources and markets. The position requires a strong commitment to the continuous improvement vision.
The Senior Associate role contains a significant amount of work requiring judgment, decision making, limited oversight and broader knowledge of the organization
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the data stewarding/correction process across data sources to ensure data integrity/quality including the ability to accurately associate payments with a unique HCP/HCO/PO and their respective consent (where applicable) in order to produce accurate and timely reports for publication as per market timelines
• Act as a subject matter expert for the markets the role is responsible for in relation to HCP/HCO/PO transparency reporting processes
• Perform all process steps necessary as required by local codes and laws (for allocated markets) to ensure that all validations are completed in a timely manner for publication.
• Partner with the market stakeholders as necessary to clarify data and prepare reports to support country manager certification, publication and republication.
• Monitor and feed back to markets and source systems in relation to data quality issues, to continually improve the concept of right first time capture of data.
• Implement a consistent approach/processes to reporting HCP/HCO/PO Transparency Reporting data across markets allocated.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for clarification, additional information and/or reports regarding HCP/HCO/PO payments/transfers of value and supporting the HCP/HCO/PO pre-disclosure & dispute process.
• Respond to queries from management, business unit leaders, and other stakeholders as needed in relation to transparency reporting information for markets assigned.
• Contribute and adhere to Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) and compliance standards.
• Participate in Continuous Improvement projects and other system/process enhancements aimed at improving the quality of the data and associated processes.
• Participate in training on an as-needed basis.
• Assist in periodic audits and inspections by internal audit or external regulators.
• Remediation of issues resulting from audit findings or compliance related matters.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop a strategy for collecting required information for disclosure.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/BSc degree required.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience is required.
• Experience in finance, compliance, accounting, or management information systems in the pharmaceutical industry or related field a plus.
• Fluency in oral and written English is required
• Strong analytical, results oriented capabilities combined with superior organizational skills.
• Experience and comfortable working in cross-functional and matrix teams.
• Demonstrated skills in teamwork and customer focus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Expert level working experience/ Expert knowledge of Excel is required
• Fundamental understanding of analyzing and managing large sets of data via excel is required
• Good oral and written communication skills in other languages is a plus

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant experience in Transparency initiatives including the understanding of HCP/HCO/PO Transparency Disclosure policies.
• Strong technical skills, including experience/ knowledge of user query tools (Excel), underlying financial & reporting systems (SAP, Ariba, CVent, Concur, Business Objects) is desirable.

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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