Operations Finance Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Rochester, NY

13h • Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Finance Manager provides financial leadership and analysis across revenue, distribution, logistics, inventory, and cost accounting. The role partners with supply chain, warehouse, operations, manufacturing, and distribution teams to deliver reliable reporting, explain business performance, strengthen financial controls, and support operating decisions. It provides daily on-site support at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Rochester, New York facility at 75 Panorama Creek Drive. Relocation and remote work are not available. No domestic or international travel is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of progressive finance or manufacturing accounting experience, including experience supporting operations, distribution, or supply chain.
• Experience with cost accounting, inventory accounting, revenue analysis, and financial planning or forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate variances, identify root causes, and communicate practical recommendations.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and financial reporting tools.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, including ability to work effectively with finance and non-finance teams.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and ability to manage competing deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with an ERP system such as SAP.

Responsibilities

• Oversee revenue accounting, reporting, and analysis, including review of sales trends, pricing, rebates, returns, warranty claims, and other adjustments.
• Support revenue forecasts and planning by analyzing volume, price, product mix, customer trends, and other relevant drivers.
• Help maintain revenue recognition policies, procedures, and controls in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
• Analyze distribution and logistics costs, including warehousing, transportation, and third-party service expenses.
• Oversee inventory accounting, valuation, reconciliations, and reserve analysis.
• Partner with operations and supply chain teams on cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory adjustments, and root-cause analysis of variances.
• Monitor inventory levels, aging, obsolescence, and excess or slow-moving stock.
• Manage standard costing processes, including cost updates, variance analysis, and review of bills of materials and labor or overhead assumptions, as applicable.
• Maintain cost accounting procedures and controls, and coordinate with relevant teams to resolve costing issues.
• Analyze, interpret, and communicate the Rochester site’s actual performance versus budgets and forecasts.
• Partner with manufacturing and distribution leadership to help develop the annual operating plan and monthly forecasts.
• Use ERP systems to facilitate daily and weekly reporting of financial metrics and scorecards for operations and supply chain teams.
• Recommend enhancements to current reporting tools.
• Perform monthly closing activities, including journal entries, accruals, reporting, and analysis.

Benefits

• 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 of paid time off (PTO) and 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.
• Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), offering eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
• May be eligible for a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager