Senior Finance Manager, LSG BTO

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Job 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.

The Sr Manager of Finance, Business Transformation Office (BTO) position plays an integral role in the financial analysis for our business expansion and network strategy projects.  You will be a key business partner and critical member of the BTO and Strategy leadership teams. You will support a distributed team that partners with senior management to drive key operational decision making.

The function supports network optimization, capacity expansion projects, efficiency, and partners with global functions in manufacturing, distribution, logistics, procurement, planning, quality and facilities as they relate to the BTO.  You will be a partner to develop and implement team’s annual operating plan (AOP) and play a key part in aligning operation team goals with leadership expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial leader for the BTO and Strategy functions.
• Perform return on investment analysis and justifications for manufacturing site investment and cost reduction projects. Includes financial modeling to ensure appropriate prioritization.
• Partner with appropriate leaders and functional areas to develop cases and drive project financial approval processes.
• Develops and applies proactive, early indicator reporting metrics to communicate financial risk or opportunities in a timely manner to senior management.
• Improve tools to run business; identify, communicate, recommend, and implement corrective actions.
• Implementation and oversight of control, process standards, accounting principles, policies and reporting practices.
• Partners with leaders to solicit feedback for step level improvements in reporting and continuously make process and system improvements to drive efficiency and productivity.
• Drive continuous improvement with the financial analysis and reporting within BTO and Operations Finance.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial activity for responsible functions.
• Build upon vision to elevate operations finance as a best-in-class organization by completing both the personnel and operational improvement road map. 
• Be a dedicated leader. Train and develop staff.
• Implement new programs via coaching and mentoring that improve finance and operations team members performance and efficiency.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in finance.
• Strong leadership, management, and partnership skills
• Detail oriented with high level analytical skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently and meet objectives.
• Mental awareness, flexibility, and adaptability to work in a matrix organization.

Compensation and 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. 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