Senior Manager, Accounting - Southeast Asia

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives.
How you will make an impact:
If you have a passion for financial accuracy and timeliness across a global, multi-faceted organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Accounting and Controllership function is the team for you.

This role is responsible for leading and strengthening the controllership agenda for the countries within Southeast Asia, ensuring accurate financial reporting, robust internal controls, statutory compliance, and effective risk management. The role acts as a key accounting partner to country, regional, Global Business Services team in Manila ('GBS Manila'), and shared service stakeholders, helping translate business activity into compliant, timely, and reliable financial outcomes.

Operating within the country model, the role provides local ownership of controllership matters while maintaining alignment with regional finance, corporate accounting policies, GBS Manila operating processes, and global control standards. The role is expected to balance governance and business enablement, ensuring that financial processes support growth, customer focus, operational efficiency, and the One Thermo Fisher value proposition.

What you will do:

• Work closely with GBS Manila to ensure close deliverables, reconciliations, reporting schedules, and accounting transactions are completed accurately, on time, and in line with Thermo Fisher policies.

• Maintain a strong control environment, including SOX and internal control compliance, audit readiness, remediation of control gaps, and continuous improvement of finance processes.

• Partner with Accounting Operations, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Commercial Finance, Supply Chain, GBS Manila, and business teams to resolve complex accounting, compliance, and operational matters.

• Support statutory audits, tax audits, regulatory filings, local board or governance requirements, and interactions with external auditors, tax advisors, and government authorities where relevant.

• Provide guidance on accounting treatment, revenue recognition, provisions, intercompany matters, inventory, fixed assets, GST/VAT, withholding tax, and other country-specific financial matters.

• Provide clear direction and escalation support to GBS Manila, ensuring roles and responsibilities are well understood.

• Drive root-cause resolution of recurring issues and promote continuous improvement in service delivery.

• Promote strong collaboration between country finance and GBS Manila, with a focus on standardization, efficiency, quality, and accountability.

Leadership expectations

• Operate with a high degree of independence and exercise sound judgment in complex or ambiguous situations.

• Influence stakeholders across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.

• Anticipate risks, simplify complex issues, and drive timely decision-making.

• Hold stakeholders accountable for deliverables, controls, and issue resolution.

• Coach and develop others to build controllership capability across the organization.

• Promote a culture of compliance, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

How you will get here:
Requirements
•Bachelor's Degree plus 10 years of experience, in progressive accounting/finance with 3-5 years in management roles
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Excellent understanding of financial accounting standards and internal controls
• Proficient user of Excel; experience with SAP ERP (or equivalent), PowerPoint, and HFM or PLN is desired
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions
• Challenges the status quo; introduces and proactively seeks out new insights and solutions to strengthen our performance.
• Leader in resourcing talent and diversity, involved in all parts of the hiring and development process
Travel requirements
• Less than 25% domestic/international travel required