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The Role
This role involves managing payroll processes, ensuring legal compliance, resolving discrepancies, and enhancing payroll systems while supporting employees with inquiries and participating in audits and projects.
Summary Generated by Built In
Use Your Power for Purpose
In this role, you will support the company's mission by ensuring employees are compensated accurately and timely, which in turn allows our teams to focus on delivering breakthrough therapies and treatments to patients around the world.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
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.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
People Experience
#BI-Hybrid
In this role, you will support the company's mission by ensuring employees are compensated accurately and timely, which in turn allows our teams to focus on delivering breakthrough therapies and treatments to patients around the world.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
- Process payroll for assigned business units, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Identify and resolve payroll discrepancies and issues promptly.
- Provide support to employees regarding payroll inquiries and issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance payroll processes and systems.
- Prepare and maintain accurate payroll records and reports.
- Participate in internal and external audits related to payroll.
- Contribute to moderately complex projects, managing your own time and developing short-term work plans.
- Apply skills and discipline knowledge to work contributions within the team.
- Make decisions to resolve moderately complex problems, working within guidelines and policies, and handle ambiguous situations as part of the team.
- Work under general supervision, follow established procedures and instructions, solve loosely defined problems, and occasionally review the work of colleagues in a mentorship role, using judgment to modify methods and techniques.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- BA/BS with at least 2 years of experience, or MBA/MS with any years of experience, or Associate's degree with at least 6 years of experience, or High School Diploma (or equivalent) with at least 8 years of relevant experience
- Proficient in using payroll software and systems
- Experience supporting Canadian payroll, including knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation, statutory deductions, and compliance requirements
- Strong knowledge of federal, state/provincial, and local payroll laws and regulations
- Experience with payroll tax compliance and reporting
- Numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate professionally in English and Spanish, both written and verbal. Proficiency in French is considered an asset but is not required.
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
- Experience with international payroll processes
- Certification as a Payroll Professional (CPP)
- Experience with Workday or similar HRIS systems
- Familiarity with multi-state payroll processing
- Understanding of garnishments, levies, and other deductions
- Experience with payroll process improvement projects
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across the organization
- Adaptability and flexibility to manage changing priorities
- Strong team collaboration skills
- Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
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.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
People Experience
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- BA/BS with at least 2 years of experience
- Proficient in using payroll software and systems
- Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll laws
- Numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel
- Experience with payroll tax compliance and reporting
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Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Official materials describe comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, plus fertility/family‑building and transgender‑inclusive coverage; eligible Pfizer medications are noted as available at no cost in U.S. plans. Wellness resources such as telehealth and preventative programs are also emphasized.
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Retirement Support — Company documents highlight a 401(k) with matching contributions plus an additional Retirement Savings Contribution beyond the match. Financial planning support and company‑paid life and disability insurance further bolster long‑term security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Corporate pages and job postings describe paid vacation and holidays, caregiver leave, and paid parental leave for both parents. Materials also note that details can vary by role and location.
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The Company
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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