Cost Accounting Manager, Finance Projects

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job 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 #101 on the 2024 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of over $42 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 Finance Manager role will be responsible for Cost Accounting and Operations Finance projects within the global finance projects team. This role will collaborate in the Cost Accounting workstream to integrate a recent acquisition into Thermo Fisher’s E1 ERP environment, collaborate in the Cost Accounting workstream to transition sites from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, and lead and collaborate on other cost accounting and Operations Finance projects across Thermo Fisher groups (e.g. LSG, LPG, BPG, SDG, and/or AIG).

This role will engage with finance leadership at group and division level to ensure a seamless execution of company, group, divisional and functional Operations Finance projects. This position will report to a Senior Finance Manager based in Singapore.

What you will do:

• Manage and develop a team of 0 to 3 direct reports to ensure we develop strategic partnerships as well as provide clear career paths
• Support the migration of entities into core company ERPs (e.g. E1 and SAP), with specific emphasis on migration to the manufacturing module
• Perform data validation and controls testing to ensure automated processes maintain accuracy, completeness, and compliance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live.
• Identify and ensure that business requirements are met within a project
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live
• Provide updates to senior management with focus on decisions, issues, and risks
• Lead project related change management including communication and training
• Challenge the status quo, proactively identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and automation, and/or collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. IT, COEs) to standardize processes, drive process improvements, and drive system enhancements.
• Collaborate to develop improved forecasting and reporting of Ops Finance KPIs (e.g. Power BI)
• 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, Business Analytics, or Information Technology
• 5+ years relevant experience in Cost Accounting with knowledge of key accounting principles and financial reporting
• Demonstrates and drives the Thermo Fisher values – Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation
• Track record of using tools such as Excel, Power Query, Power BI/Tableau, SQL, Python, Alteryx, Power Automate, or similar to automate workflows and improve financial reporting and analysis.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, E1 (JD Edwards), Dynamics, etc.
• Cost Accounting and/or Operations Finance experience with knowledge of key accounting principles and financial reporting
• 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 10% domestic/international travel required