Finance Manager EMEA Controller - CDD

Job Overview

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. 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.

The Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) within our Specialty Diagnostics Group provides innovative diagnostic (IVD) solutions for select market segments and has been a trusted supplier in the IVD industry for over 40 years.

Candles is seeking a regional controller for its Finance Manager, EMEA Controllership position, supporting its businesses to help drive process, results and partnership. This role will provide finance, accounting and decision support to CDD finance and business customers, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting consistent with US GAAP and local reporting requirements.

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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. You will build strong interpersonal alliances to understand and mitigate risk, bring together opportunities, and provide valuable support to all business partners.

• 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 tax 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
• Supports internal and external audit requirements
• 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
• Other ad‑hoc duties
• Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and financial highlights that will enable understanding of progress against strategic / business plan and budgets

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

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