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Finance Manager EMEA Controller (m/f/d)
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.
The Thermo Fisher Finance community offers growth opportunities across the world with a wide range of positions including Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, FP&A, Controllership, and Global Business Support. Finance professionals seeking to play drive financial strategy and business outcomes via strong business partnership and an extensive network of strong leaders and a career development focused culture.
The Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) within our Specialty Diagnostics Group, provides innovative diagnostic (IVD) solutions for select IVD market segments and has been a trusted supplier in the IVD industry for over 40 years. CDD provides products for drugs of abuse testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, quality control, sepsis diagnosis, women’s health prenatal screening and more. The division provides laboratory instrumentation and high-throughput laboratory automation equipment for use in a variety of laboratory settings. Products are offered through direct sales, regional distributors, and OEM partnerships across three BUs.
Are you interested in having an even bigger impact on our customers and patients? CDD is seeking a regional controller for its Finance Manager, EMEA Controllership position, supporting its businesses to help drive process, results and partnership!
CDD is seeking a regional controller for its Finance Manager, EMEA Controllership position, supporting its businesses to help drive process, results and partnership.
How you will make an impact:
If you have a passion for financial accuracy and timeliness across a global organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Accounting and Controllership function is the team for you.
We are looking for a leader to provide finance, accounting and decision support to CDD finance and business customers. With a keen understanding of laws, tax regulations and compliance this role will support accounting, controls and compliance procedures to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, consistent with US GAAP and local reporting requirements. This team uses innovative financial systems and controls, data security and robust processes to protect the company’s assets and support its short- and long-term global scaled growth. In addition, the position holder will provide valuable decision support, lead PPI, and support functional development and business objectives.
You will have an opportunity to build strong interpersonal alliances to understand and mitigate risk, as well as bring together opportunities and provide valuable support to all business partners
Key Responsibilities/what you will do:
Partners with functional and business leadership and peers in driving business performance to meet short and long term objectives
Lead and support monthly closing activities including journal entries, accruals, reporting and analysis processes
Ensure local tax requirements supported by site teams are completed on a timely basis
Ensures compliance with US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, company policy and standard operating procedure; recommends changes to strengthen control environment
Supports internal and external audit requirements
Drives continuous improvement and uses systems to increase controls and efficiencies
Identify and lead PPIs and deployment and systems implementations
Listens proactively and collaborates across functional lines
Other ad-hoc duties
Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and financial highlights that will enable understanding of progress against strategic / business plan and budgets
How you will get here:
An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or Accounting is required
A global accounting qualification (ACCA, CPA, ACA, CIMA)
Possess excellent academic credentials and strong financial competence
Experience in the IVD or Life Sciences industry is a plus
The candidate should have a minimum of 4+ years of finance and accounting experience
Validated deep understanding of ERPs (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Hyperion) and data visualization and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Cognos)
Working understanding of financial accounting standards and internal controls
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distill and translate technical concepts to non technical collaborators and vice versa
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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