Careers at ThermoFisher Scientific

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1) Strong business partnering and ability to work across the matrix

• Establish a strong Business partnership with the Services Management team through accurate financial reporting and business analysis.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in and influence a complex structure
• Become an active and contributing member of the ULS Finance team
• Direct responsibility for daily operations and analytics for N. America Instrument Services

2) Provide solid business understanding through analysis

• Development and communication of the Instrument Services’ financial and operating goals. This includes the Annual Operating Plan and the Monthly and Quarterly updates.
• Responsible for the monthly closing process, financial statements, variance analysis and presentation of financial results.
• Responsible for the profitability assessment of business proposals, including development of pricing/costing models to support business reviews
• Management of Customer, Regional and Industry profitability trends and analysis
• Create monthly 3rd party product financial reporting package and MBR-related support
• Provide ad-hoc analysis to understand and explain 3rd party product financial results and/or variance trends

3) Drive PPI (Practical Process Improvement) throughout the organization

• Proactively identify and communicate areas for operational and financial improvement
• Champion PPI projects to drive process and productivity improvement develop and implement meaningful financial metrics, partner on implementation and measure results.

Education and Experience:

• 3-5 years of finance experience
• Bachelors Degree in Finance or Accounting

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High-energy self-starter with strong drive for results. Demonstrated passion for exceeding customer requirements.
• Demonstrated functional knowledge and strong technical capability (financial analysis, accounting / control and business process re-engineering).
• Strong business and strategic acumen.
• Ability to move beyond the numbers to understand the operational and strategic implications of business decisions while maintaining a strong grasp of the details. Continually identifies and pursues opportunities to improve processes.
• Effective communicator that can influence a matrix organization at varying leadership levels (provides information clearly and concisely). Ability to present compelling, concise evidence to support positions. Strong oral and written communication/presentation skills.
• Capable of developing high levels of credibility and forging solid and positive professional relationships (subordinates, peers, and upper management); strong interpersonal skills.

• Strong Systems experience: SAP/Oracle, Essbase, Navision, Cognos experience preferred and proficiency in MS Office software (Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Other Requirements:

• 10% international and domestic travel.

This position has not been approved for relocation assistance

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