Senior Manager, Finance, Pharma Analytics BU

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Pleasanton, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 7–10+ 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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.

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 Fisher’s 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.

Benefits

• 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: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees