Finance Senior Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives.

How You Will Make an Impact:

We offer Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry instruments, software and services solutions, serving the academic & government, food & beverage, environmental, pharma / biotech, and clinical markets.

 

Reporting to the Senior Director, FP&A, the successful candidate will be an integral member of our CMD FP&A team and will provide business partnership within CMD Software business unit. This role will be responsible for financial planning and analysis, management reporting requirements, and strategic analytics. In addition, the position holder will provide valuable decision support, identify and implement operational improvement opportunities and champion AI and Automation.

What You Will Do:

Lead monthly and quarterly business review, annual operating plan process & STRAP for CMD-Software business unit.

Partner with the Product Management team to support R&D project prioritization by ensuring that financial models accurately reflect project assumptions, resource allocations, and strategic objectives.

Lead data analysis for the business, against key business metrics (Revenue, Gross Margin, OPEX and CAPEX) and identify pertinent financial highlights, enabling understanding of progress against strategic business plans

Leverage the PPI business system to improve existing processes and enhance financial performance

Support division FP&A during peak planning cycles, and other financial processes as needed

Lead and promote AI, Automation and Self Services analytics across the division

Lead and coach a summer intern annually, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and exciting learning experience.

How Will You Get There

Bachelor/master’s degree in finance or accounting. CPA, CMA or MBA certification desirable

Experience in Generative AI for reporting, insights and Intelligent automation (RPA + AI) for financial processes desirable

Minimum of 7+ years of business and Finance experience

Proven track record in finance and accounting within a highly matrix organization

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Experience with SAP, Hyperion, PLN systems is preferred

Demonstrated history of driving businesses to improve performance.

Self-motivated with a high bias for action

Ability to thrive in a complex business environment

Ability to influence and engage business partners, direct/indirect reports. Have ability to effectively collaborate with senior management

 

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