Hybrid Finance Senior Manager bei Thermo Fisher

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Job Description

Seeking a strong Finance Senior Manager who will provide finance and business partnering leadership to executives within the Human Resources (HR) function. This highly visible role will lead a finance team of 3 members and will be responsible for the financial planning and actuals analysis for the HR function. In addition, this team member will provide valuable financial decision support via sophisticated analytics/modeling, identify and implement operational improvement opportunities/Practical Process Improvement (PPI), and continue to develop a strong finance team! Role reports to Senior Director Finance, Corporate Functions.

What You Will Do:

• Lead Annual Operating Plan (AOP) activities
• Lead AOP/forecast vs. actual expense analysis on monthly & quarterly basis for Operating Expenses (OpEx) and Capital Expenses (CapEx)
• Lead Strategic Plan (STRAP) for Corporate HR function
• Demonstrate ability to use complex data for problem solving
• Communicate effectively including standardized monthly reporting, and ad hoc reporting
• Analyze financial and business performance against key metrics and identify pertinent financial highlights, thus understanding progress against strategic business plans
• Evolve an already strong team
• Understand and deploy the best tools and methods to effectively communicate complex data and topics; implement innovative tools/methods, as needed
• Lead integration activities, as needed
• Identify, communicate, and lead risks & opportunities review and discussion

Primary office in Waltham, MA at the Thermo Fisher Scientific headquarters.

Will consider other sites in Pittsburgh, PA or Wilmington, NC.

How You Will Get Here:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting is required
• Master's degree strongly preferred

Experience

• 7+ years of business and Finance experience
• 1 year of people leadership experience
• Experience in leading and developing a strong team
• Experience effectively presenting to senior leaders
• Proficient at understanding and proactively communicating the financial implications of business decisions and dynamics
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization is preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• An ideal candidate will possess excellent academic credentials and strong finance skills and accounting knowledge
• Proven understanding of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis) & PowerPoint; prior Hyperion planning (PLN 2.0) experience is strongly preferred
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Proven business partner and influencer

Travel Requirements

• Less than 10% travel