Associate Director, Strategic Finance

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. With a team spanning 120,000+ colleagues worldwide, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. Together, we accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need.
PPD, our clinical research business, has an opening for an Associate Director, Strategic Finance to support client accounts as a lead, acting as a single point of contact to address custom projects. The Strategic Finance Team helps develop PPD’s pricing constructs and strategy, including the development and negotiation of commercial terms and pricing models for key customer partnerships.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous finance experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years’ experience)
• 3-5 years of management responsibility
• MBA Degree (preferred but not required)
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional skills in financial analysis, modeling, and budgeting
• Excellent problem-solving skills (including research, reporting and analytical skills)
• Strategic and creative thinking
• Strong written and oral English communications skills
• Ability to exercise judgment and decision-making skills through financial research and analysis
• Ability lead and handle large project teams including setting goals, presenting plans, supervising progress, and achieving results in a high-performing team environment
• Proactive leader with strong business acumen and intellectual curiosity
• Strong customer relationship management skills
• Strong organizational agility and demonstrated drive for results
• Consistent track record of facilitating dynamic organizational change and development within a growing organization
• Shown experience influencing and negotiating to establish credibility and trust with staff across the business
• Experience within the drug development or CRO industry preferre

• Apply critical thinking and financial analysis to help build value for PPD
• Quickly develop a solid understanding of PPD’s service offerings, commercial constructs and pricing strategy to help analyze how these components best drive financial results.
• Manage assigned client relationships and will collaborate closely internally to problem solve items as they relate to finance and will respond to financial reporting and other reporting needs.
• Lead corporate-wide business analysis efforts to provide decision support to key business leaders regarding the financial and operational impact of strategic decisions.
• Work well across the organization to provide insight and analysis into our pricing strategy and business performance (e.g. working with Operations and Commercial Finance, FP&A, corporate development, and business development on key growth initiatives.
• Ability to negotiate with external and internal partners around deal structures and partnership objectives.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous finance experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years’ experience)
• 3-5 years of management responsibility
• MBA Degree (preferred but not required)
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional skills in financial analysis, modeling, and budgeting
• Excellent problem-solving skills (including research, reporting and analytical skills)
• Strategic and creative thinking
• Strong written and oral English communications skills
• Ability to exercise judgment and decision-making skills through financial research and analysis
• Ability lead and handle large project teams including setting goals, presenting plans, supervising progress, and achieving results in a high-performing team environment
• Proactive leader with strong business acumen and intellectual curiosity
• Strong customer relationship management skills
• Strong organizational agility and demonstrated drive for results
• Consistent track record of facilitating dynamic organizational change and development within a growing organization
• Shown experience influencing and negotiating to establish credibility and trust with staff across the business
• Experience within the drug development or CRO industry preferred

PPD values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).

Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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