Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
This Finance Director role will support the Life Sciences Group (LSG), including the operations ecosystem support for the Bioproduction Group (BPG). The candidate will be responsible for driving and managing key operating mechanisms in the global business such as the annual operating plan, monthly financial reporting/forecasting, capital/inventory forecasting, data insight/foresight, as well as partner with various leadership teams to develop actions and recommendations to enable the business to achieve its financial objectives. This role offers a great opportunity to join a fast-growing business and partner with leadership to execute on both short-term and long-term goals.
Essential Functions:
Provides leadership to an overall organization of up to nine with three direct senior manager roles by:
o leading organizational change
o developing and empowering staff
o cultivating relationships
o putting staff in a position to succeed
o meeting their personal career goals while also achieving organizational goals
o building effective teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
o driving engagement and creating a climate where staff are motivated to do their best
Develops and coordinates monthly operating reviews with each of the Division operations teams and shared operational support functions, including preparing templates to standardize and facilitate the process incorporating all key metrics
o Partner with Group Finance to develop OCOGs/Inventory/CAPEX reporting to support the organizational leadership structure, providing clarity to divisional profitability and cash flows
o Prepares, coordinates and provides consistency to capital requests and financial justifications including spending tracking and forecasting
o Leads annual budgeting and monthly forecast coordination and reporting for Operations working directly with the group, divisions, shared operations functions leaders and finance partners
o Prepares and coordinates all division level management reporting and analysis, including monthly and quarterly bridges
o Works with group level PPI resources to validate and report value capture on project trackers. Performs analysis linking operational activities with their financial impact and suggest to management ideas on related actionable improvements
o Initiates actions to improve business supporting and business management tools (systems, procedures, instructions, formats, performance indicators, etc.)
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (CPA and/or MBA preferred)
7+ years of professional experience in the finance/accounting fields
Cost Accounting/Consolidations experience preferred
Ability to navigate and influence in a matrix organization
Strong leadership, problem solving, and a team first mentality
Systems experience preferred, including, but not limited to: EDW, Hyperion Planning, CMR
Knowledge of PowerBI or Business Intelligence Tools helpful
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interpret and summarize financial analysis results in a clear, concise, and accurate manner
Demonstrates strong business acumen
Confidence to interact with all levels of the organization
Desire to formulate and drive process improvements, with confidence to challenge the status…