Manager, Finance

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

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. Ranked #92 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of more than $40 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

The North American & Emerging Markets region is a Research and Safety business within the Customer Channels Group, which offers choice and convenience through a myriad of products and services serving numerous end markets. Primary office at Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Our Finance Reporting and Commercial FP&A function is responsible for providing oversight and support for our fast-paced, innovative and global sales teams. By leading activities such as strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, pricing and close exercises, while leveraging analytics, forecasting and reporting skills, you will help shape the commercial success of our business areas for senior leaders and the sales teams. You will develop a robust skill set as part of this fast-paced function by interacting with a broad number of internal business partners and building organizational capabilities to drive profitability & customer satisfaction. The work of this team is dynamic with high visibility and impact to our diverse customers, providing you with an exciting opportunity to gain valuable regional and global experiences and professional growth.
Seeking a Finance Manager to lead a team of 5 within the Commercial Finance team to support senior leaders in data organization and maintenance, financial reporting, and forecasting processes. This role would suit an individual with a real desire to develop and succeed within a fast-paced and innovative FP&A function!

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Less than 10% domestic/international travel required

• Lead on all elements of the commercial incentive forecast and processing. This includes building forecast models and designing effective processes and communication flows that scale with business growth
• Memorialize and enforce controls on all aspects of commercial data hygiene and field reporting
• Collaborate with business leaders to share insights and drive improved outcomes, partnering with functional teams as required
• Use visualization tools such as a PowerBI to undertake ad-hoc analysis to support management decision
• Utilize large financial datasets to build predictive models and lead on exploratory data analysis for sophisticated business / data and problem solving
• Embrace change and apply a continuous process improvement mindset: consider new ways to analyze business data and results
• Hire, lead, coach, strengthen and develop the team to enable professional and technical growth as well as talent retention