Senior Business Finance Centre Partner - (Senior BFC Partner) Location: Cairo, Egypt/ Istanbul, Turkey Reports to: MERAST Business Finance Centre & Regional FP&A Senior Manager Grade: GJL 70 Works with: Market/Cluster FD, Market Business Finance, Business Finance Centre Team, DS CoE, Commercial Colleagues (specific markets) Purpose of Role As part of the Commercial Finance organization, the Senior BFC Partner works collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure Business Finance deliverables required by Local and Regional Finance teams are produced on time and to the required quality and level of detail, by executing defined BFC processes. The role will also drive AI adoption and process optimization, including improving business finance processes and interactions, and ensuring they are executed as designed. The Senior BFC Partner brings Business Finance expertise to a delivery-focused partnership with Commercial Finance, driving business performance and key metrics through BFC principles. Through prior experience across Finance, the Senior BFC Partner provides support and guidance to Junior BFC Partners in their day-to-day work. The scope of activities and countries assigned typically involves greater complexity and requires autonomy, sound judgment, and the ability to manage ad-hoc requests with potential material impact for the markets supported. With strong knowledge and experience, the Senior BFC Partner plays a key role in demand management to support the success and sustainability of the finance transformation. Key Tasks & Responsibilities • Lead the planning, preparation, and completion of all defined BFC deliverables for assigned markets/BUs, with a focus on Operating Plan and forecast baseline projections; enable timely submissions in Mosaic; and support standard financial slide preparation and offline template consolidation. • Provide information, metrics, and insights to Local, Cluster, and Regional Finance colleagues to support decision-making and performance management. • Analyze financial and operational data to identify, quantify, and prioritize opportunities to enhance efficiency and improve performance, leveraging AI-enabled ways of working. • Partner with BFC, Local/Cluster, and Regional Finance colleagues to ensure deliverables are produced and completed in line with defined BFC processes, timelines, and quality standards. • Lead the adoption and implementation of AI-driven tools to enhance reporting, analytics, and insight generation. • Act as a point of contact and escalation for Finance stakeholders; respond to requests and provide guidance, data, and clarification as needed. • Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to understand their challenges, needs, and business context, and reflect these in BFC support and deliverables. • Manage urgent and exception requests within established timelines; proactively monitor, prioritize, and eliminate backlogs. • Contribute to the BFC community of practice within key specializations, driving optimization and continuous improvement of processes, deliverables, interactions, skills, and tools. Key Competencies & Experience • Degree-educated (or equivalent) in Finance/Accounting, Data Science. Professional accreditation and/or an MBA/Master's in Finance or Accounting would be advantageous. • Business finance experience in a local market or regional environment, including reporting, analysis, planning, budgeting, forecasting, commentary, and modelling. • Ability to independently generate analytical insights and communicate them effectively, using financial tools (e.g., Global and Local LightHouse), modelling, and standard MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). • Strong work ethic and ability to multitask, with strong problem-solving, project planning and delivery, attention to detail, time management, and critical thinking skills. Experience in a matrix environment is an advantage. • Proficiency in Russian is required • Proven ability to build strong relationships in a virtual environment. • Familiarity with AI, analytics, automation, and/or data visualization tools like Power BI strongly preferred. Co-pilot experience beneficial • Demonstrates an "own-it" culture, teamwork, and a customer-focused mindset, with a collaborative and flexible working style and strong business acumen. • Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working with new technologies. • Fluent in English and comfortable working in a culturally diverse organisation. • Willing to travel occasionally to align with key stakeholders, as needed. Work Location Assignment: Hybrid Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates. Finance & Accounting

• Lead requirements gathering and discovery sessions with business stakeholders • Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional documentation • Support e-commerce and quoting-related workflows across digital platforms • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, and Delivery • Analyze and support the functional documentation of business processes, integrations, and system dependencies • Assist in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies if applicable • Identify risks, gaps, and process improvement opportunities throughout delivery • Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Definition of product/solution vision, functional decomposition, assumptions, dependencies, out of scope items for further work with a product designer and solution architect and his their estimation of design and development efforts estimation • Planning BA activities, estimating BA work and capacity required for the project execution • Conduct an analysis of and provide an overview of the business domain and key business processes, value streams related to the client request to the pre-sale team • Work with Account Managers, Client Engagement Managers and Business Development Managers on the best sales strategies and opportunities with a prospect or existing client. • Plan product design phases activities for the BA stream to ensure that requirements are captured while the scope is defined, and project objectives are met. • LeadTogether with a product designer and solution architect, lead a variety of product ideation, vision, and scope framing workshops, both online and onsite, with the client. • Present prepared commercial proposals and product/solution vision to the client stakeholders • Provide solution options analysis and recommendations for the client request based on the results of the sales team ‘s ideation, project timeline, goals and objectives. • Create and maintain high-level artifacts to be used as a guidance on project and business vision for other BAs on the project • Transition of the knowledge and documents from pre-sales phase to project team during project kick-off, assist the project team with the initial stages of the project execution as a key knowledge holder. • Identify, define, and validate business needs with stakeholders • Synthesize analysis into key features and develop actionable recommendations • Work with project sponsors and SMEs to understand and capture business cases • Establish, control, and improve requirements management processes on a project • Define metrics for business analysis results assessment and develop means of their collection • Conduct project, product, and requirements audit • Apply expertise and knowledge of business domain and follow technology trends • Participate in Business Analysis Office competence development and mentoring

Role Description This role will focus heavily on e-commerce, quoting workflows, and business process analysis within a complex digital transformation environment. The ideal candidate combines strong BA fundamentals with hands-on experience supporting CPQ (configure price quote) logic and digital commerce implementations. You should be comfortable working directly with stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable user stories, and collaborating closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams. This is an offshore role requiring alignment with Australian/New Zealand working hours. - Lead requirements gathering and discovery sessions with business stakeholders - Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional documentation - Support e-commerce and quoting-related workflows across digital platforms - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, and Delivery - Analyze and support the functional documentation of business processes, integrations, and system dependencies - Assist in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies if applicable - Identify risks, gaps, and process improvement opportunities throughout delivery - Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders Qualifications - 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Digital Consultant in consulting or technology environments - Strong experience with e-commerce platforms and digital customer journeys - Experience working with quoting, CPQ, configuration, or pricing logic workflows - Ability to write detailed user stories and functional requirements - Experience working in Agile delivery environments - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills - Comfortable working across distributed/global teams Benefits - Unlimited Vacation/PTO - Fully remote and distributed teams - Paid Parental Leave - Ongoing training and education opportunities - 0% Bureaucracy Culture - Focus is on responsibilities, not title Company Description Like what you see but don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyways! Studies have shown that various groups (women and people of colour) are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every requirement. At Zaelab, we’re committed to building and fostering an inclusive accessible environment, where all employees feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to creating a culture with a diversity of talented individuals who join, stay, and work in an environment that enables them to thrive. Zaelab is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accommodations. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Please rest assured that we’ll treat any information you share with us with the utmost care, only use your information for recruitment purposes and will never sell it to other companies for marketing purposes. Please review our privacy policy for future information. As part of our hiring process, AI-based tools are used to support the initial review of applications. Rest assured, our People Ops team carefully reviews all applications and makes the final decisions on candidate progression.