Director, Financial System and reporting

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

ABOUT THERMO FISHER

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $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 complex analytical challenges, increasing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving capabilities and strong understanding of business processes, project management methodologies and leading standard processes.
• Communicates effectively and is empathic, relates well to others, engages others to help them understand change.
• Achieves results through collaboration, open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable.
• Comfortable working in complex organization and traditional matrixed structure.
• Ability to lead the definition, development, and operations of data governance processes.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Accounting. MBA preferred!
• 7+ years of experience in dynamic Finance roles including FP&A
• Strong knowledge of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis), Cognos reporting tool (or equivalent), PowerPoint, PowerBI and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM).
• Travel, up to 15%.
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• Provide leadership and critical initiative direction related to the roadmap for financial systems, enhancements, upgrades, and new system implementations.
• Partner with Corporate and Divisional finance and IT teams to help drive finance data transformation across the global Pharma Services organization.
• Provides supervision and leadership in the development, maintenance, accuracy and ongoing operation of complex and financial systems and technologies in support of global businesses.
• Enable data-centric solutions that drive measurable improvements to the consistency & clarity of reporting. Drive efficiencies in existing activities to enable a shift in time spend of time spent from hindsight to foresight across the finance organization.
• Participate in developing and refining the strategic design considerations around the implementation of robust data warehousing solutions, that accommodate the growing need for better business analytics and the desire to drive efficiencies in the finance organization.
• Develop and implement short-term and long-term project plans to drive alignment on strategic direction and enable project execution.
• Support Business and Group level business and finance partners to define optimal use cases that meet business strategic and technological needs.
• Help develop and communicate relevant use cases as part of broader communications/organisational change plan.
• Participate on broader company wide data governance and functional transformation projects.