External Reporting Manager (ESG)

Work Schedule

Standard Office Hours (40/wk)

Environmental Conditions

Office

When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join over 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How You Will Make an Impact?

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Controllership is a new team within the Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporate Financial Reporting function. As a member of this team, you will discover endless opportunities to grow an exciting career and have broad transparency into a $40 Billion global organization with the mission of making the world healthier, safer and cleaner.

Reporting to the ESG Controller, you will demonstrate Workiva and other capabilities to help ensure the accuracy, compliance, and timeliness of external ESG report delivery. This role requires strong expertise in financial and regulatory and reporting frameworks, with familiarity or curiosity about ESG and other non-financial compliance reporting. As you will collaborate with subject matter authorities in a cross-functional and matrixed organization, you will display outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.

What You Will Do?

Be responsible for the composition and submission of external ESG related reports, regulatory filings and disclosures, ensuring alignment with industry standards and legal requirements. This role will serve as a Workiva subject matter authority, demonstrating the capability to optimize the tool for collecting data and reporting across multiple collaborator groups.

Develop expertise on ESG trends, frameworks, regulatory requirements to help advise operational plans, reporting philosophies, and metrics.

Serve as the data subject matter authority for ESG and other compliance reporting matters, helping ensure that functional data adheres to regulatory and ESG policy requirements. Support in the development, implementation and maintenance of systems for collecting, verifying and analyzing ESG data.

• Provide training and support to cross-functional team members on Workiva’s tools and features
• Lead reporting timelines to ensure deliverables meet internal and external requirements while driving continuous improvement in ESG data reporting processes and data management
• Support the ESG Controller and other finance teams to complete external assurance and auditor reviews of reports
  
  

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree required preferably in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems
• CPA (or equivalent), active or inactive license desired
• 5 years of accounting or financial reporting experience, preferably with sophisticated, multinational enterprises is required
• Experience with US GAAP, SEC, or other regulatory reporting is required
• Experience applying internal controls over financial and/or regulatory reporting is required
• Experience using Workiva for report preparation and submission is helpful
• Proven understanding with the ESG reporting regimes is preferred
  
  

Knowledge & Skills:

• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Experience with Workiva platform, financial reporting systems, and reporting tools
• Outstanding analytical skills and attention to detail
• Capable of collaborating with diverse global teams
• Self-motivated with a bias for action
• Act with integrity and demonstrate strong professional judgment
• Maintain a positive demeanor and desire for continuous improvement
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Less than 25% domestic/international travel required
  
  

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Compensation And Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $103,100.00–$154,700.00.

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