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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

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.

The Thermo Fisher Finance community offers growth opportunities across the world with a wide range of positions including Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, FP&A, Controllership, and Global Business Support. Finance professionals seeking to play drive financial strategy and business outcomes via strong business partnership and an extensive network of strong leaders and a career development focused culture.

The Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) within our Specialty Diagnostics Group, provides innovative diagnostic (IVD) solutions for select IVD market segments and has been a trusted supplier in the IVD industry for over 40 years. CDD provides products for drugs of abuse testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, quality control, sepsis diagnosis, women’s health prenatal screening and more. The division provides laboratory instrumentation and high-throughput laboratory automation equipment for use in a variety of laboratory settings. Products are offered through direct sales, regional distributors, and OEM partnerships across three BUs.

Are you interested in having an even bigger impact on our customers and patients? CDD is seeking a regional controller for its Finance Manager, North America Controllership position, supporting its businesses to help drive process, results and partnership!

How you will make an impact:

If you have a passion for financial accuracy and timeliness across a global organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Accounting and Controllership function is the team for you.

We are looking for a leader to provide finance, accounting and decision support to CDD finance and business customers. With a keen understanding of laws, tax regulations and compliance this role will support accounting, controls and compliance procedures to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, consistent with US GAAP and local reporting requirements. This team uses innovative financial systems and controls, data security and robust processes to protect the company’s assets and support its short- and long-term global scaled growth. In addition, the position holder will provide valuable decision support, lead PPI, and support functional development and business objectives.

You will have an opportunity to build strong interpersonal alliances to understand and mitigate risk, as well as bring together opportunities and provide valuable support to all business partners

Key Responsibilities/what you will do:

+ Partners with functional and business leadership and peers in driving business performance to meet short and long term objectives

+ Lead and support monthly closing activities including journal entries, accruals, reporting and analysis processes

+ Ensure local audit requirements supported by site teams are completed on a timely basis

+ Ensures compliance with US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, company policy and standard operating procedure; recommends changes to strengthen control environment

+ Drives continuous improvement and uses systems to increase controls and efficiencies

+ Identify and lead PPIs and deployment and systems implementations

+ Listens proactively and collaborates across functional lines

+ Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and financial highlights that will enable understanding of progress against strategic / business plan and budgets

How you will get here:

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications (nice-to-have):

+ A global accounting qualification (ACCA, CPA, ACA, CIMA)

+ Possess excellent academic credentials and strong financial competence

+ Experience in the IVD or Life Sciences industry is a plus

+ The candidate should have a minimum of 4+ years of finance and accounting experience

+ Validated deep understanding of ERPs (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Hyperion) and data visualization and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Cognos)

+ Working understanding of financial accounting standards and internal controls

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distill and translate technical concepts to non technical collaborators and vice versa

Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria (must-have):

+ An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or Accounting is required

Travel requirements

Less than 25% domestic/international travel required

This position is not approved for Relocation Assistance.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $103,100.00–$160,000.00.

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

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.