Sr. Finance Manager
About The Position
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are essential to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop unique career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #106 on the 2025 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of over $44 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field
- 8+ years relevant experience in finance
- Demonstrates and drives the Thermo Fisher values – Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation (The Four I’s)
- Project management experience
- Strong team building skills and ability to work with a diverse group of customers in a global-matrixed environment
- Self-motivated; bias for action
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in a global, matrixed environment preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects end-to-end — define objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, resources, timelines, and success criteria; drive execution through implementation and handover.
- Influence and partner with senior stakeholders - drive alignment across global teams to ensure successful execution of transformation objectives
- Drive finance transformation initiatives — lead improvements to finance processes, operating models, reporting, controls, automation, ERP systems, or other finance technology.
- Manage risks, issues, and dependencies — maintain RAID logs, identify potential delivery or financial risks early, establish mitigation plans, and escalate material issues.
- Project governance — maintain project documentation, manage change control, and ensure projects comply with organizational standards and controls.
- Provide executive reporting — prepare concise project status reports, dashboards, steering-committee materials, decision papers, and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Lead organizational change — assess impacts on finance teams and processes, support communications, training, adoption, readiness, and transition into business-as-usual operations.
- Ensure controls and compliance — collaborate to ensure that project delivery meets internal controls, audit requirements, accounting standards, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Lead project related change management including communication and training.
- Assess and implement opportunities to use AI / machine learning / generative AI tools - to improve reporting efficiency, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and insight generation.
- Support ad-hoc internal, group, and corporate requests - as needed.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
