Senior Finance Manager – Digital Commerce Platforms

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Pittsburgh, PA

51d • $130,000 - $194,950 • Onsite

About The Position

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $44 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 125,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com. How You'll Drive Impact! In this highly collaborative and visible position, you will own the Digital Revenue, and financial and operational elements of our Digital Commerce Platforms P&L. With your data-driven mentality, you will analyze and interpret sales/revenue results and forecasts, providing key business and financial guidance to the organization. You will play a key leadership role in developing and scaling new, digital capabilities across the websites and platforms. This position offers the right candidate an opportunity for career growth and development while supporting a function that is implementing innovative digital tools and technologies across the company. The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong ability to solve problems and activate insights. They have a consistent track record of enhancing controls, improving process efficiency, and optimizing outcomes for 8 years or more.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 8+ years of finance experience in a complex, multinational environment, with direct management experience and experience partnering with leaders
• Strong and persuasive communicator: essential to have credibility within a dynamic, challenging environment and in the context of providing outstanding business partnering support
• Desire to formulate and drive process improvements, challenging the status quo
• Demonstrated focus on translating data and metrics into predictable, valuable business insight
• Professional maturity and communication style to interact directly leadership across functions
• Strong results orientation, bias for action
• Experience with ERP systems (ie. SAP), SQL, Hyperion, and digital tools (ie. PowerBI)
• Extensive experience in revenue modeling and forecasting, and working with large data sets
• Excel expertise with advanced knowledge of pivots, charts, and formulas; strong financial modeling skills
• High Potential Talent: A strong finance leader able to demonstrate consistent performance, drive, flexibility, and intellectual curiosity.
• Leadership: Able to empower others to find a better way every day and provide business partnership to succeed against goals.
• Influence: Ability to understand and translate business challenges and requirements into digital and financial solutions, attaining consensus to support innovative ideas with the leadership team.
• Agility: Able to balance/flex between handling day-to-day finance responsibilities, while leading critical initiatives to drive company growth and/or efficiency.
• Prioritization: Able to focus and prioritize the most impactful goals and deliver outstanding results; ability to lead projects and partner with cross-functional teams and deliver results in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Data-Focused: Able to acquire and analyze data and use it to drive forecasting and identification of risks and opportunities within financial results vs. plan.
• Innovative: Challenges core processes and uses prior finance experience to drive innovative solutions and daily efficiency.
• Communication: Clear and concise written and verbal skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategic finance partner across DCP, Divisions, Corporate FP&A, and Group FP&A - providing leadership and insight in financial planning and analysis, revenue reporting, performance analytics, and digital ecosystem advancement to drive informed decision-making
• Align strategic finance initiatives with Groups and Corporate Strategy to enable cohesive execution and accelerate digital revenue growth across the enterprise
• Lead all key financial processes including the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), long range strategic plan (STRAP), month-end/quarter-end close cycles, and other recurring management reporting cadences.
• Coach, mentor and empower a Senior Financial Analyst to advance their professional development via training, personal target setting and regular performance evaluations
• Empower the finance team to partner with functional partners to drive successful programs and achieve financial commitments.
• Collaborate with the Technical Accounting Team to interpret accounting guidance for CapEx vs. OpEx strategies.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analyses and modeling as required.
• Embody cross-functional involvement and continuous process improvement values.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees