Sr Manager, Finance

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Finance Manager – Digital Platforms & Engineering
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $44 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 sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 125,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding 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 and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
How You’ll Drive Impact!
In this highly collaborative and visible position, you will own the financial and operational elements of our Digital Platforms and Engineering P&L and play a key leadership role in developing and scaling new, digital capabilities across the company. As an influential member of our Finance community, you will strategically partner with our business leads to size, implement and evangelize value-driving investments in emerging technologies (Generative AI) while keenly focusing on developing a sustainable return framework.
This position offers the right candidate an opportunity for career development and growth while supporting a function that is implementing cutting edge digital tools and technologies across the company.
The ideal candidate is a high potential, natural problem solver and insight activator with a keen eye for controls, process efficiency and optimization, as consistently demonstrated through a minimum of 8 years+ of accounting/finance experience.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Partner with DPE and SSO (Software Strategy and Operations) teams, acting as a strategic advisor related to financial planning and analysis, analytics, insight generation, and the digital ecosystem.
• Collaborate across the DPE, SSO, Corporate FP&A, and Group FP&A to advance the Company’s digital growth strategies.
• Lead all key financial processes including the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), long range strategic plan (STRAP), month-end/quarter-end close cycles, and other recurring management reporting cadences.
• Coach, mentor and empower a team of two Senior Financial Analysts to advance their professional development via training, personal target setting and regular performance evaluations.
• Empower the broader Company team to partner with functional partners to drive successful programs and achieve financial commitments.
• Act as a subject matter expert, in tandem with our Technical Accounting Team, to interpret and vet accounting guidance in support of the development of long-term CapEx versus OpEx strategies.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analyses and modeling as required.
• Embody cross-functional involvement and continuous process improvement values.

Keys to Success:

EDUCATION

• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.

EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of finance experience in a complex, multinational environment, with direct management experience and experience partnering with leaders
• Strong and persuasive communicator: essential to have credibility within a dynamic, challenging environment and in the context of providing outstanding business partnering support
• Desire to formulate and drive process improvements, challenging the status quo
• Demonstrated focus on being able to translate data and metrics into predictable, value-add business insight.
• Professional maturity and communication style to interact directly leadership across functions
• Strong results orientation, bias for action
• Experience with ERP systems (ie. SAP), Hyperion, and digital tools (ie. PowerBI)
• Advanced Excel skills

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• High Potential Talent: A strong finance leader able to demonstrate consistent performance, drive, flexibility, and intellectual curiosity.
• Leadership: Able to empower others to find a better way every day and provide business partnership to succeed against goals.
• Influence: Ability to understand and translate business challenges and requirements into digital and financial solutions, attaining consensus to support innovative ideas with the leadership team.
• Agility: Able to balance/flex between handling day-to-day finance responsibilities, while leading critical initiatives to drive company growth and/or efficiency.
• Prioritization: Able to focus and prioritize the most impactful goals and deliver outstanding results; ability to lead projects and partner with cross-functional teams and deliver results in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Data-Focused: Able to acquire and analyze data and use it to drive forecasting and identification of risks and opportunities within financial results vs. plan.
• Innovative: Challenges core processes and uses prior finance experience to drive innovative solutions and daily efficiency.
• Communication: Clear and concise written and verbal skills.

• Partner with DPE and SSO (Software Strategy and Operations) teams, acting as a strategic advisor related to financial planning and analysis, analytics, insight generation, and the digital ecosystem.
• Collaborate across the DPE, SSO, Corporate FP&A, and Group FP&A to advance the Company’s digital growth strategies.
• Lead all key financial processes including the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), long range strategic plan (STRAP), month-end/quarter-end close cycles, and other recurring management reporting cadences.
• Coach, mentor and empower a team of two Senior Financial Analysts to advance their professional development via training, personal target setting and regular performance evaluations.
• Empower the broader Company team to partner with functional partners to drive successful programs and achieve financial commitments.
• Act as a subject matter expert, in tandem with our Technical Accounting Team, to interpret and vet accounting guidance in support of the development of long-term CapEx versus OpEx strategies.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analyses and modeling as required.
• Embody cross-functional involvement and continuous process improvement values