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OfficeJob Description
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.
This role, within the Specialty Diagnostics Group supporting multiple divisions with global impact, leads data governance, financial systems, and reporting processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of financial data across the organization. Partnering with Business Units, FP&A, and Systems teams, it drives standardization of data hierarchies, metadata, and processes across ERP and enterprise platforms while supporting planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles. The position oversees system reconciliations, embeds governance into financial processes, and advances data strategies focused on centralization, automation, and visualization. It also leads a team of finance systems professionals, promoting data stewardship, user adoption, and continuous improvement, while serving as a key liaison between business and technical teams to deliver scalable solutions.
What you will do:
- Drive implementation and standardization of tools, processes, and reporting solutions that facilitate key business insights across the groups through collaborative partnerships with Commercial, Business Unit, Divisional and Corporate FP&A teams.
- Partner with Divisions, Group Functions and Corporate Systems team to deliver on the Group strategic roadmap by developing and implementing new functionality and Data governance of hierarchy and metadata across ERP and Systems
- Own and improve systems process to ensure the accuracy of revenue, COGS, OCOGS, OPEX and MCF across actuals, forecast and AOP
- Embed in the forecast, AOP, margin move and restatement processes to provide support and ensure that financial system data and functionality are aligned with business needs
- Lead General Ledger Analytics (GLA) integrations through complete SDLC.
- Lead the monthly close reconciliation process between all systems (ERP, EDW, CDW, SPoT, CMR, HFM, and Planning)
- Manage and develop a team of high-performance systems and FP&A experts that provide support for the finance user community in all facets of the planning and reporting environments.
- Drive process improvements (PPI) across the organization (both internally amongst the systems team as well as externally with the user community)
- Support end-user requests and resolve user’s issues during the close process
- Champion user competency and adoption of new tools and techniques to ensure that solutions are consistently implemented into all levels of the finance organization through training, onboarding and user engagement.
- Investigate, analyze and partner with Corporate and LSG systems to solve technical issues.
- Support and advocate for the overall data strategy of centralization, consistency, automation and visualization.
How will you get here:
Education
- Bachelors’ degree in Accounting, Finance or related field with experience in financial systems, computing, and/or data sciences preferred.
- Equivalent years of professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Experience
- 5+ years in Finance, Accounting, or IT at a large company.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Experience with E1, SAP, Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Cognos, or similar systems with an emphasis on acting as a super user in those applications
- Knowledge of General ledger Analytics (GLA) highly desirable
- Deep understanding of the budgeting/forecasting process and associated key performance indicators
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements while working as a liaison between business and technical teams
- Organized, meticulous, self-starter with a strong sense of ownership
- Excellent interpersonal skills; effective verbal & written communication.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining the accuracy of information
- Customer-centric, focused on providing proactive systems solutions to drive business performance
- Ability to effectively communicate and interface with senior management
- Experience with Python or other coding languages considered a plus
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $130,000.00–$194,950.00.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. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
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
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
Skills Required
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- 5+ years experience in Finance, Accounting, or IT at a large company
- Experience with E1, SAP, Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Cognos, or similar systems, with emphasis as a super user
- Knowledge of General Ledger Analytics (GLA)
- Deep understanding of budgeting/forecasting processes and associated KPIs
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and act as liaison between business and technical teams
- Experience managing and developing a team of systems/FP&A professionals
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication; ability to interface with senior management
- Organized, meticulous, self-starter with strong ownership
- Experience with Python or other coding languages
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
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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