Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global science-serving company with diverse Finance functions supporting business and functional decision-making. The Senior Finance Manager will lead project management and change management for cost accounting and operations finance initiatives, including a Microbiology Division divestiture and S/4HANA ERP transformation. The role partners with Finance, IT, Operations, and Product Data Management stakeholders to drive governance, standard costing, data governance, reporting, and finance transformation.
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
Skills
- Education Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field Experience
- 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
- Less than 25% domestic/international travel required
- Experience working in a global, matrixed environment preferred
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.
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs (U.S. colleagues and their families).
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement (U.S. colleagues and their families).
- 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 (U.S. colleagues and their families).
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan (U.S. colleagues and their families).
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount (U.S. colleagues and their families).
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