Senior Financial Accountant

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

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.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and driven Financial Accountant to join the Global Business Services team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a progressive centre of excellence in an organisation considered a global leader in its field.
The position is in the Record to Report (RtR) team of our Global Business Services (GBS) Shared Service Centre. The team provides financial controllership in the region for three of the Thermo Fisher Scientific groups – Clinical Research Group (CRG), Life Sciences and Laboratory Products Group (LSLPG), Special Diagnostics Group (SDG) and Analytical Instruments Group (AIG). We are responsible for a large number of entities reporting a total of over $10 Billion of revenue per year!
The successful candidate will lead the US GAAP financials of a number of legal entities, working closely with the Accounting Operations team to ensure financial accuracy and timely deliverance of close activities. You will be encouraged to demonstrate yourself as a knowledge leader in the Record to Report team; able to investigate and resolve accounting problems. A highly motivated and detail oriented individual with excellent communication, mentoring and organisational skills relevant to the role. You are a self-starter, technically astute, and have the ability to prioritise and follow through in a dynamic, corporate environment. In addition, be the go to for our internal partners.

What will you do?

• Drive the US GAAP end to end financials across a number of EMEA legal entities
• Analyse profit and loss account and balance sheet trends and variances
• Perform review and approval activities at month end, including high risk journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
• Review general ledger activity, researching and correcting account discrepancies
• Conduct in-depth analysis of balance sheets and communicate findings to relevant parties.
• Collaborate with internal teams as the main point of contact
• Oversee the timeliness of financial reporting for the EMEA region
• Conduct monthly business reviews with relevant individuals.
• Proactively participate in PPI (Practical Process Improvement) initiatives, including Gemba Walks, Just Do Its, Kaizen events, and daily Tier management
• Complete a variety of special projects as and when requested

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Able to coordinate and prioritise multiple complex situations
• Accuracy is required in performing all aspects of the role
• High level of proactivity to drive continuous improvement
• Deep technical accounting expertise
• Strong investigative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Skilled at effectively communicating and presenting to a diverse range of individuals
• Strong understanding of US GAAP (Desired but not crucial)
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interact at various levels inside and outside the organisation
• Proficient in MS Excel
• Working knowledge of ERPs (Desired but not essential)

• Drive the US GAAP end to end financials across a number of EMEA legal entities
• Analyse profit and loss account and balance sheet trends and variances
• Perform review and approval activities at month end, including high risk journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
• Review general ledger activity, researching and correcting account discrepancies
• Conduct in-depth analysis of balance sheets and communicate findings to relevant parties.
• Collaborate with internal teams as the main point of contact
• Oversee the timeliness of financial reporting for the EMEA region
• Conduct monthly business reviews with relevant individuals.
• Proactively participate in PPI (Practical Process Improvement) initiatives, including Gemba Walks, Just Do Its, Kaizen events, and daily Tier management
• Complete a variety of special projects as and when requeste