Senior Manager, Finance, Pharma Analytics BU
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Job Location:
Pleasanton, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 141800 - 195000
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Work Schedule
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OfficeJob Description
Role Summary
The Finance Senior Manager for the Pharma Analytics Business Unit is the primary strategic finance partner on the BU leadership team. This role owns financial planning forecasting analytics and business decision support for the Pharma Analytics business serving global biopharma customers. The senior manager will drive financial rigor elevate performance insights and strengthen operating execution across the business. This position reports directly to the Senior Director of Finance for the Purification & Pharma Analytics (PPA) business.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnership & Strategic Support
- Serve as the primary finance partner to BU leadership offering clear data-driven guidance on revenue performance margin optimization and investment allocation.
- Support long-range planning annual operating plan and monthly/quarterly outlooks; articulate drivers risks and opportunities with confidence and accuracy.
- Challenge assumptions constructively pushing for disciplined decision-making and operational accountability.
- Leverage ChatGPT and AI-assisted analysis to accelerate insight generation scenario testing and communication clarity across finance and cross-functional partners.
Financial Management & Performance Analytics
- Own P&L management and deep-dive financial analytics across product lines regions and channels.
- Lead monthly business reviews synthesizing financial insights into succinct actionable narratives.
- Drive standardization and speed in reporting forecasting and KPI tracking.
- Elevate gross margin analysis product mix understanding and pricing/volume/margin decomposition.
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards that improve visibility self-service reporting and proactive performance management.
Operational Execution
- Strengthen forecasting processes by improving data quality cadence and cross-functional alignment with Commercial Operations Product Management and R&D.
- Partner with Supply Chain and Operations Finance to understand COGS manufacturing variances and inventory implications.
- Improve financial controls and support audit compliance and SOX requirements.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Manage and develop a financial analyst in support of total PPA FP&A consolidations.
- Foster a culture of transparency accountability and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate across Thermo Fishers matrix to align business unit finance with divisional and group objectives.
- Champion adoption of Power BI GenAI and modern analytics practices within the PPA finance team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or related field.
- 710 years of progressive finance experience ideally within life sciences tools diagnostics or manufacturing environments.
- Strong technical skills in financial modeling forecasting and data analysis.
- Clear communicator who can simplify complexity and influence senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced matrixed organization with shifting priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA CPA or CMA.
- Experience supporting product-driven businesses with complex portfolios.
- Familiarity with Hyperion/Oracle and financial consolidation/reporting tools.
- Hands-on experience using AI/GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for analytics automation or enhanced business communication.
- Track record of implementing process upgrades or analytics improvements.
Personal Attributes
- Highly analytical skeptical of weak assumptions and comfortable challenging the status quo.
- Practical solutions-oriented and able to translate insights into action.
- Collaborator who builds trust quickly and communicates with clarity.
- Curious technology-forward mindset with a willingness to adopt and champion modern analytics and AI tools.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $141800.00$195000.00.This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Adobe Analytics
- Data Analytics
- SQL
- Attribution Modeling
- Power BI
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Data Mining
- SAS
- Analytics
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