Senior Finance Manager – Commercial Finance

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Pittsburgh, PA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Biotech
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
The Role
The Senior Finance Manager will lead a team in profitability assessment, oversee customer contracts, support forecasting, and provide financial insights to senior leadership.
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Work Schedule

Standard Office Hours (40/wk)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join more than 100,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every day—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals while helping to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from protecting the environment and ensuring food safety to advancing cancer research.

What will you do?

We are seeking an experienced and people-focused finance leader to join the Customer Channels Group as a Senior Finance Manager. Reporting to the Finance Director, this role leads a team of finance analysts supporting the Commercial organization in executing contracts and strengthening customer relationships.

You will collaborate within a broader finance network, partnering cross-functionally to deliver insights, solve complex business challenges, and drive profitable growth.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead activities related to the profitability assessment of business proposals, including providing financial oversight as well as gaining organizational alignment
  • Oversee the full lifecycle of customer contracts, including implementation, compliance, and annual pricing updates
  • Support planning and forecasting processes, including financial modeling and performance analysis
  • Deliver actionable insights through ad hoc analysis and strategic finance projects
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing and diverse finance team aligned with Thermo Fisher’s culture and values
  • Provide financial control, analysis, and decision support for the Industrial segment
  • Partner with senior leadership to influence business decisions through clear, data-driven communication

How will you get here?

Minimum Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
  • Advanced degree or certification preferred (MBA, MS, CPA)
  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience
  • Prior experience in a large global and highly matrixed organization preferred
  • Demonstrated business partnership and ability to provide strategic support to senior business leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Embodies the Thermo Fisher Scientific values of Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation
  • Strong financial acumen with the ability to interpret, challenge, and communicate complex financial data in support of business decisions
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all organizational levels
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with financial systems and tools preferred
  • Strong presentation skills with the ability to translate data into clear, compelling insights
  • Solid understanding of business operations, financial controls, and process improvement methodologies (e.g., Practical Process Improvement)
  • Ability to identify control gaps and implement effective mitigation strategies
  • Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong analytical thinking, including the ability to interpret trends, benchmark performance, and draw insights from ambiguous data
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to summarize and present information in a concise and effective manner tailored toward different audiences

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Accessibility/Disability Access

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*This telephone line is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes, such as not being able to get into the career website, following up on an application, or other non-disability related technical issues will not receive a response.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
  • Advanced degree or certification preferred (MBA, MS, CPA)
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience leading high-performing teams
  • Experience in a large global and highly matrixed organization

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.

  • Retirement Support The package includes a 401(k) with a strong company match and an employee stock purchase plan, which are viewed as meaningful components of total rewards.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Starting paid time off around three weeks, along with paid holidays, sick time, bereavement, volunteer time, and options to add more, is consistently highlighted as a strength.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave for primary caregivers plus additional bonding time, together with adoption/fertility assistance and childcare benefits, provides robust family support.

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The Company
HQ: Waltham, MA
100,000 Employees

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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