Manager, Finance

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Summary:
We seek an enthusiastic Finance professional with excellent analysis and interpersonal skills to support the Analytical Instruments Group (AIG) Finance team as a Manager, Finance passionate about financial reporting and business performance analysis.
The ideal candidate is a high potential, natural relationship builder and problem solver with a penchant for process efficiency and optimization, as consistently proven through a minimum of 5 years of dynamic finance/accounting experience.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the functional and Finance leaders with analytics, reporting and forecasting on key components of revenue, operating spend and working capital metrics. Facilitate the daily, weekly and monthly reporting of financial metrics and scorecards
• Be a business partner to FP&A and Divisional Leaders. Bring analytical rigor in developing business cases for R&D, Key Partnerships, and Savings Initiatives
• Lead and Mentor finance staff
• Work with business partners across the company to drive improved performance and analytical insights. Examples include driving margin expansion by identifying a more profitable mix of products and assisting manufacturing efficiency and sourcing improvements through data transparency
• Provide recommendations to improve the current reporting tools. Work on automation and efficiency initiatives related to reporting and data harmonization.
• Assist with the preparation of business presentations, including Monthly Business Review (MBR), long range planning (STRAP), and Quarterly Business Review (QBR) schedules

• Develop reporting solutions that ‘set the standard’ in terms of analytical insight and user experience

  Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, MIS or related fields.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate and articulate business impact in financial terms
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a cross-functional team. Exceptional customer focus
• Technical ability to optimally navigate interplay between all financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management/CMR) and advanced Microsoft Office skills.

• Support the functional and Finance leaders with analytics, reporting and forecasting on key components of revenue, operating spend and working capital metrics. Facilitate the daily, weekly and monthly reporting of financial metrics and scorecards
• Be a business partner to FP&A and Divisional Leaders. Bring analytical rigor in developing business cases for R&D, Key Partnerships, and Savings Initiatives
• Lead and Mentor finance staff
• Work with business partners across the company to drive improved performance and analytical insights. Examples include driving margin expansion by identifying a more profitable mix of products and assisting manufacturing efficiency and sourcing improvements through data transparency
• Provide recommendations to improve the current reporting tools. Work on automation and efficiency initiatives related to reporting and data harmonization.
• Assist with the preparation of business presentations, including Monthly Business Review (MBR), long range planning (STRAP), and Quarterly Business Review (QBR) schedules
• Develop reporting solutions that ‘set the standard’ in terms of analytical insight and user experienc