JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams play a meaningful role to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our mission enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
We provide opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives. You will discover endless opportunities to grow an exciting career as part of the world leader in serving science. Come onboard and join a dynamic and engaging finance team where you are encouraged and given bandwidth to allow your creative capabilities to flow to truly make a difference!
Manages a team within the department and oversees day-to-day responsibilities including quality and accuracy reviews and approvals for all deliverables. Resolves moderately sophisticated problems through in-depth evaluation and financial analysis of various factors to identify, assess and mitigate potential risk. Acts as primary client contact. Builds and maintains strategic partnerships with both internal and external customers at various management levels in order to meet client expectations.
This is a fully remote position for candidate residing in the United States of America.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 5 years).
• 1+ year of leadership responsibility
  In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Good knowledge and understanding of contractual documents
• Ability to manage, empower and mentor staff
• Solid digital literacy, including the use of Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, etc. (e.g. creating pivot tables/charts, formulas, etc.)
• Professional and effective verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to present and articulate business topics to all levels internally and externally
• Strong understanding of and ability to communicate financial concepts and associated calculations and analysis
• Strong organizational, judgment, analytical, math, decision-making and interpersonal skills to manage sophisticated projects in parallel and manage rapidly changing priorities
• Ability to identify and drive positive change through process improvement, feedback channels and project participation
• Strong collaboration and project management skills with the ability to meet clients’ requirements for proposal and budget development and successful budget negotiation
• Ability to identify and anticipate potential problems and take pro-active action utilizing appropriate escalation channels
• Demonstrated ability to serve as an account leads, including participation and/or leadership of client meetings and teleconferences and trackers

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
• Moderate mobility required.
• Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
• Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
• Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Frequently interacts with others, relates sensitive information to diverse groups both internally & externally.
• Ability to apply basic principles to solve conceptual issues.
• Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
• Regular and consistent attendance

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND OTHER JOB INFORMATION:

• Manages staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime.
• Manages resource allocation and prioritization of team deliverables ensuring appropriate allocation based on team expertise, experience and workload.
• Attends client meetings and teleconferences to defend organization proposals prior to project award, negotiate pricing or contracts post-award, or to maintain and improve processes and relationships.
• Evaluates current systems and makes recommendations to assure high quality proposals and contract modifications.
• Coordinates timely collection of data for proposal and budget development in response to Requests for Proposal, including possible oversight of completion by other analysts on the commercial team. Gathers and analyzes data for proposals and contract modifications and tracks revisions on a timely basis.
• Prepares, reviews and analyzes deliverables (i.e. bids, proposals, text and budget) to ensure it incorporates and meets metrics, client expectations and other benchmarks.
• Approves quality deliverables that conform to the organization’s contract requirements and meet client needs. Applies quality control procedures and ensures deliverables are completed on a timely basis.
• Communicates financial concepts and associated calculations and analysis

MANAGEMENT ROLE:

• Directly supervises individual contributors, administrative support and / or entry-level professionals.