Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are essential 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 unique career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #106 on the 2025 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of over $44 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.
How you will make an impact:
The Senior Finance Manager role will provide Project Management and Change Management leadership on Cost Accounting and Operations Finance projects within the global finance projects team. Initially, this leadership role will lead project manage the Cost Accounting and Ops Finance workstream to divest the Microbiology Division (MBD), with a focus on S/4 Hana ERP transformation. This role will collaborate with stakeholders in Finance, IT, Operations, and Product Data Management. Key project deliverables include enforcing global governance standards, ensuring standard costing excellence, driving best practice data governance standards across a complex, multi-plant matrixed environment, and enabling accurate OCOGS reporting. After project completion this role will lead and collaborate on LSG, BPG, SDG, and/or AIG projects, but may also provide support to other Thermo Fisher Groups. This role will engage with finance leadership at group and division levels to ensure seamless execution of company, group, divisional and functional projects.
This position will report to the Director, Finance Projects.
What you will do:
- Lead complex projects end-to-end — define objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, resources, timelines, and success criteria; drive execution through implementation and handover.
- Influence and partner with senior stakeholders - drive alignment across global teams to ensure successful execution of transformation objectives
- Drive finance transformation initiatives — lead improvements to finance processes, operating models, reporting, controls, automation, ERP systems, or other finance technology.
- Manage risks, issues, and dependencies — maintain RAID logs, identify potential delivery or financial risks early, establish mitigation plans, and escalate material issues.
- Project governance — maintain project documentation, manage change control, and ensure projects comply with organizational standards and controls.
- Provide executive reporting — prepare concise project status reports, dashboards, steering-committee materials, decision papers, and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Lead organizational change — assess impacts on finance teams and processes, support communications, training, adoption, readiness, and transition into business-as-usual operations.
- Ensure controls and compliance — collaborate to ensure that project delivery meets internal controls, audit requirements, accounting standards, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Lead project related change management including communication and training.
- Assess and implement opportunities to use AI / machine learning / generative AI tools - to improve reporting efficiency, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and insight generation.
- Support ad-hoc internal, group, and corporate requests - as needed.
How you will get here:
Education Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field Experience
- 8+ years relevant experience in finance
- Demonstrates and drives the Thermo Fisher values – Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation (The Four I’s)
- Project management experience
- Experience working in a global, matrixed environment preferred
- Strong team building skills and ability to work with a diverse group of customers in a global-matrixed environment
- Self-motivated; bias for action
Travel requirements
Less than 25% domestic/international travel required
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in is £65,300.00–£97,925.00.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
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related business field
- 8+ years of relevant finance experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to demonstrate and drive company values of integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation
- Experience working in a global, matrixed environment
- Strong team-building skills and ability to work with diverse global customers
- Self-motivated with a bias for action
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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