# Lease Accounting CoE Senior Accountant

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Escazu, Costa Rica
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Pfizer is seeking a Lease Accounting CoE Senior Accountant to perform daily activities related to ASC 842 lease accounting. The successful candidate will participate in month-end financial close activities for US and International legal entities, monitor select GL accounts, run specific activities within Pfizer's lease accounting solution, maintain zero balance clearing accounts, and journalize lease monthly activities.

The Senior Accountant will collaborate with Division/Market colleagues to support their requests and inquiries surrounding lease accounting details and work independently with other departments and internal business partners across US and international locations to research, analyze and resolve irregularities and discrepancies.

Key responsibilities include:

- Maintaining records, supporting files/documentation, complete/accurate work instructions, and necessary compliance documentation in an organized manner

- Communicating effectively with peers and management regarding work tasks and deadlines

- Ensuring activities are performed to a high standard of operational excellence and meeting established service level agreements and deadlines

- Engaging directly with select business partners on routine activities and deliverables

- Developing technical and business skills

- Ensuring strong commitment to the control environment through training and review

- Participating in global initiatives including transformational projects as needed

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance discipline

- Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience

- Practical experience of US GAAP and Statutory Accounting/Experience of other GAAPs

- English proficiency

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, with strong emphasis on Excel

- Ability to become proficient in new software quickly

- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills

- Solid understanding of accounting and finance principles

Pfizer offers a flexible working model that allows colleagues to work remotely two to three days a week while still maintaining the ability to collaborate regularly in person at their sites.

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## Skills

### Required
- accounting
- finance
- US GAAP
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- analytical thinking
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- CPA
- international equivalent (ACCA)
- public accounting experience
- advanced SAP & HFM experience
- international experience

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