IES FP&A Director

Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 80,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How you will make an impact?

As a finance leader will have direct exposure to the Instrument & Enterprise Services (IES) senior leadership team and business units. This role is responsible to provide strong business partnership support for the functional IES leadership team and lead finance team as chief of staff. The Finance Director plays an integral 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 requirements. In addition, the position holder will provide valuable decision support, identify and implement operational improvement opportunities and develop a strong finance team.

Key Responsibilities:

• FP&A leadership of a $1.3B 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
• Lead the annual operating plan process (AOP), Monthly/Quarterly Business Review (MBR/QBR) processes as well as play a key role in the annual strategic planning process (STRAP), in a matrixed financial forecast, ensuring financial decisions support the company STRAp/AOP and current market environment
• Communicate results to the broader organization and ensure alignment on 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 utilizing of 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 Marketing, VP HR, VP Customer Care/EHS/Quality/PPI/EHS, and Sr. Director IT
• Develop a “best in class” finance staff and function. Lead a team of 7 individuals
• Liaise with Group FP&A and Systems teams to drive reporting integrity, accuracy, and process efficiency
• Oversight, implementation and organizational change management 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 history of excelling in a large global company and highly matrixed environment. 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 an 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 a 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 an accommodation