Accountant

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How you will make an impact:

If you have a passion for financial accuracy and timeliness across a global, complex organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Corporate FP&A function is the team for you. With a keen understanding regulations and compliance as well as reporting requirements, this team uses innovative financial systems and controls, data security and robust processes to deliver management reporting reports for senior leadership. From technical accounting to budgeting and forecasting to planning and reporting, you will establish links with internal and external audit teams as well as key business partners to drive sophisticated business decisions. You will have an opportunity to build strong organizational alliances to understand and mitigate risk, as well as bring together opportunities and provide valuable support to all business partners.

Seeking a proficient finance team member who will provide finance, accounting and decision support to the manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering timely and meaningful financial analysis and providing mentorship to achieve financial objectives. This role will ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.

What you will do:
• Support the Corporate FP&A Lead through financial reporting as well as any additional ad hoc requests for information and analysis from Commercial and Finance team
• Responsible for management reporting with focus on cost, capex and support functions, including preparation of – MBR/ QBRs, AOP/ STRAP
• Partner with business / finance customer in driving business performance to meet short and long term objectives
• Implement reporting, budgeting, forecasting activities in support of the business
• Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and supervise pertinent financial highlights that will enable understanding of progress against strategic / business plan and budgets
• Responsible for management of entire shared service costs, payroll operations, fund management, cost control and present the deliverables
• Prepare and review the plan and forecast for the shared service costs / Opex
• Perform monthly closing activities including journal entries, accruals, reporting and analysis
• Uploading the budget into PLN while ensuring Product Line / Country wise accuracy
• Business Support
• You are expected to be a self-starter with a strong demeanor and willingness in leading day to day FP&A support. You will operate across a highly matrixed environment and still be able to demonstrate and supply to the existing systems and processes.
How you will get here:

Education
• Chartered Accountant with 4-5 or more years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience
• Required: A minimum of 4-5 years of finance and accounting experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Proficient user of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis); experience with ERP (or equivalent), PowerPoint, and Hyperion is desired
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced work experience preparing financial reports
• Ability to multi-task, work under stringent timelines , meet deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced work environment

Travel requirements

Less than 10% domestic travel required