About the position
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. This role is part of the Chromatography & Spectrometry Division (CMD) and will be reporting to the Americas Commercial Finance Director. The Sr. Manager will support a $0.6B+ Region and is responsible for providing financial oversight, strategic guidance, and fostering strong business partnerships with our fast-paced Americas sales teams. By leading activities such as forecasting, pricing, budgeting, and close exercises, while leveraging analytics, reporting and presentation skills, you will help shape the commercial success of our business areas for finance leaders and the sales teams. You will develop a robust skills 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 exciting opportunity to gain valuable regional and global experiences and professional growth. This is a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment that requires the ability to multitask and deliver on commitments, superb analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate with others within the company.
Responsibilities
- Lead on monthly and quarterly business reviews to support the regional senior directors and to identify actions to improve the business; provide insight and support to the business units
- Manage the forecasting and planning process in collaboration with Commercial leadership, Marketing and sales structures
- Establish, improve, and maintain performance measurements to aid in business evaluation, predictive/forward-thinking analytical reporting, and target achievement
- Communicate risks and opportunities to expected results and recommend contingency plans to deliver on the financial commitments
- Work with divisional counterparts assuring an alignment between global requirements and region
- Support operative and strategic decisions and suggest corrective actions
- Review appropriate commercial finance support mechanisms and implement change as needed
- Provide a leadership role in initiatives that constantly raise the bar of expectation and developing a world class finance organization
- Complete special projects as requested, such as Go To Market strategies and integration processes
- Proactively find opportunities for change, operational improvement, and system enhancements
- Lead, develop and inspire your team to meet the business and finance objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Science, or Economics
- 10+ years of strong analytical experience in financial planning and business analysis
- Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
- Proficient at understanding and proactively communicating the financial implications of business decisions and dynamics
Nice-to-haves
- Strong financial acuity, including familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
- Data management experience and the ability to manage large sets of data and accurate reports
- Highly analytical and possess a strong business sense
- Organized multitasker: you prioritize your workload, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Strong team building skills working with a diverse group of people, even if geographically dispersed
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to communicate analysis and recommendations in concise informative manner
- Able to deliver high quality effective presentation to communicate complex topics
- Excellent skills with MS Excel are required; Oracle, HFM/CMR, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) are preferred
- Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done
- Continuous Improvement: 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
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
- Annual incentive plan bonus scheme
- Healthcare
- Company pension/retirement
- A range of employee benefits
