DSD Senior FP&A manager

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Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 80000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Youll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment making our food is safe and helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact

As a finance manager you will have exposure to the leadership team of the Drug Substance Division (DSD within Pharma Services Group) and business divisions. This role involves providing robust business partnership support for the distributed team. This finance role plays an part in aligning the team goals with division leadership expectations. This role will ensure strong financial controls compliance and timely and accurate financial reporting consistent with USGAAP and local reporting addition the position holder will provide valuable decision support identify and implement operational improvement opportunities and develop a strong finance team.

Primary office: Waltham MA

Key Responsibilities:

• FP&A leadership of a $1.65B division.
• Lead all weekly monthly quarterly and annual financial processes to include month-end close reporting planning/forecasting and analytics activities.
• Identify monitor and articulate key operating metrics and synthesize messaging the business performance in the division.
• Coordinate every aspect of the annual operating plan process (AOP) engage in Monthly/Quarterly Business Review (MBR/QBR) processes and contribute to the yearly strategic planning process (STRAP) to create a thorough financial forecast that aligns with company goals and market trends.
• Communicate results to the broader organization and ensure alignment of key financial goals.
• Develop and lead analytical methods for exploratory and explanatory business insights.
• Lead financial modeling for key investment and STRAP objectives.
• Accelerate decision making via development and applying visualization tools.
• Develop operational metrics / contingencies.
• Recommend financial risk mgt strategies / perform market impact analysis articulate and demonstrate knowledge of key profit drivers for the business understand drivers and market forces and impact on future business prospects.
• Business partner to VP Strategy VP HR and Sr. Director Procurement IT PPI Quality team.
• Develop a best in class finance staff and function. Lead a team of 2 individuals.
• Liaise with Group FP&A and Systems teams to drive reporting integrity accuracy and process efficiency.
• Oversight implementation and organizational organizational change of appropriate systems control/process standards and drive continuous improvement.
• Champion other ad-hoc projects and initiatives as assigned or as self-identified areas for improvement.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Finance or Accounting preferably an MBA CPA or CMA certification.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail; ability to step back analyze the overall business impact and synthesize the messaging.
• Experience leading diverse global financial consolidations in an accurate and timely manner.
• Strong leadership skills and consistent track record to adapt leadership style to different situations and people.
• Demonstrated the history of excelling in a large global company and highly matrixed environment. The ability to handle ambiguity is a must.
• Proficient at understanding and proactively communicating the financial implications of business decisions and dynamics.
• Strong organizational problem-solving and analytical skills able to manage priorities and workflow.
• Must have outstanding attention to detail and strong process rigor.
• Self-motivated; bias for action.
• 10% travel requirement.

Benefits:

• We offer competitive remuneration annual incentive plan bonus scheme healthcare company pension and a range of employee benefits!
• Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity intensity involvement and innovation.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

• Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.