What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Manager, Cost Accounting position at Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Contribution from the role
The senior finance manager plays a key role in supporting the business and financial management of operations at the Hillsboro site within the Material & Structural Analysis division. The senior finance manager is responsible for leading the financial planning and reporting for the Hillsboro operations business. The role will require managing a team of financial analysts with the purpose of planning, analyzing, forecasting, budgeting, and business intelligence activities in support of the operations business’ goals and objectives.
Expectations of the role
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Contribution from the role
The senior finance manager plays a key role in supporting the business and financial management of operations at the Hillsboro site within the Material & Structural Analysis division. The senior finance manager is responsible for leading the financial planning and reporting for the Hillsboro operations business. The role will require managing a team of financial analysts with the purpose of planning, analyzing, forecasting, budgeting, and business intelligence activities in support of the operations business’ goals and objectives.
Expectations of the role
- Act as a strategic business partner with operations to align financial goals with operational objectives.
- Lead team of financial analysts with focus on talent and personal development
- Lead all aspects of financial forecasting, closing processes, standard costing, inventory management, capital expenditures and investments.
- Facilitate the monthly review of costs with the leadership team to ensure financial transparency and accountability.
- Drive continuous improvement and accountability for gross margin analysis to enhance profitability.
- Lead, develop and inspire the local team to meet both business/ financial as well as their personal objectives.
- Lead analysis of productivity results and drive improvements in line with productivity targets.
- Prepare Monthly/Quarterly Business Review packages.
- Develop and implement Annual Operating Plan to achieve financial targets.
- Provide approval for purchase order, CAPEX, and headcount requests to ensure alignment with budgetary constraints and business needs.
- Proactively identify, develop, and implement improvements to existing reporting processes.
- Identify improvement opportunities to automate, enhance and build analysis.
- Strong leadership qualities, leading by example and hold team accountable to commitments
- Financial savvy, including deep familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis, as well as in root cause data interpretation
- Organized multitasker: workload prioritization, enable to meet timelines while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Effective spoken and written communication skills are required to collaborate with various partners
- Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done
- Highly analytical with strong business sense
- Ability to handle large sets of data, creating accurate reports with responsibility for the quality and integrity of deliverables
- Continuous Improvement approach: Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through PPI Intensity for leading and developing team members
- Excellent skills with MS Excel and preferably HFM/CMR/PLN
- Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum of 8-10 years of dynamic finance experience with management roles, including finance leadership and experience in a global manufacturing organization
