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ThermoFisher Scientific Sr Manager, Finance in Middletown, Virginia
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer!
The Sr Manager, Finance is a critical part of the Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) which provides innovative diagnostic solutions for select IVD market segments and has been a trusted supplier in the IVD industry for over 40 years. CDD provides products for drugs of abuse testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, quality control, sepsis diagnosis, prenatal screening and more.
At our Middletown site 500+ colleagues produce over 10 billion tests annually through custom, contract and OEM businesses for Hematology, Hemostasis, Clinical Chemistry, Immunoassay and Molecular.
How you will make an impact:
The Sr. Manager Finance leads a diverse team within the Operations Finance team to support senior leaders in data analytics, financial reporting and forecasting processes to help craft the success of the business. This role would suit an individual with a passion for data analytics and a real desire to develop and succeed within a fast paced, innovative FP&A function!
By leading activities such as strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, pricing and close exercises, while leveraging analytics, forecasting and reporting skills, you will help shape the operational success of our business areas for senior leaders. You will develop a robust skill set as part of this fast-paced function by interacting with a broad number of internal business partners and building organizational capabilities to drive profitability & customer satisfaction. The work of this team is dynamic with high-visibility and impact to our diverse customers, providing you an opportunity to gain valuable regional and global experiences and professional growth.
What you will do:
Lead all aspects of the following areas within a P&L accountable business: Closing process, Standard Costing, Inventory, CAPEX & Investment
Drive improvements and accountability for Gross Margin analysis
Facilitate the monthly review of cost/spend with the leadership team
Support the Monthly and Quarterly Business Review (MBR/QBR)
Provide Financial support to the S&OP process
Own the Annual Operating Plan & Strategic multi-year plan through strategic financial analysis in collaboration with Site Leadership Team
Perform financial evaluation and handle all capital expenditure to ensure profitable business decision
Identify and make recommendations that optimize business processes and reporting to improve financial performance
Influence decision making by evaluating business plans and capital investments
Lead, develop and inspire the team to meet the business and Finance objectives
How you will get here:
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance field
Experience
10 years of relevant working experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Significant experience within FP&A or Controlling
Business partnership experience
Ability to handle large sets of data, creating accurate reports with responsibility for the quality and integrity of results.
Highly analytical with strong business sense
Organized multitasker: workload prioritization, enable to meet tight deadlines while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Financial competence, including deep familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, as well as in root cause data interpretation,
Excellent skills with MS Excel are required; Oracle, HFM/CMR, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) are preferred.
Effective spoken and written communication skills are required to collaborate with various partners.
Strong team building skills and ability to work with a diverse group of people even if geographically dispersed.
Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done.
Customer focus mentality and behavior
Continuous Improvement approach: Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through Practical Process Improvement (PPI)
Exhibit leadership, initiative, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific 4-I values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.
Travel requirements
Less than 10%
domestic/international
travel required
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.