Finance Manager EMEA Controller (m/f/d) at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Thermo Fisher Scientific Logo
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Healthcare, Diagnostics, Life SciencesIndustries

Requirements

  • Passion for financial accuracy and timeliness across a global organization
  • Keen understanding of laws, tax regulations, and compliance
  • Knowledge of US GAAP and local reporting requirements
  • Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, company policy, and standard operating procedures
  • Ability to provide finance, accounting, and decision support to finance and business customers
  • Skills in using innovative financial systems, controls, data security, and robust processes

Responsibilities

  • Partners with functional and business leadership and peers in driving business performance to meet short and long term objectives
  • Leads and supports monthly closing activities including journal entries, accruals, reporting, and analysis processes
  • Ensures 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
  • Identifies and leads PPIs (Practical Process Improvements) and deployment and systems implementations
  • Listens proactively and collaborates across functional lines
  • Performs other ad-hoc duties
  • Analyzes financial and business performance against key business metrics and financial highlights to enable understanding of progress against strategic/business plan and budgets

Skills

FP&A
Controllership
Financial Reporting
Financial Controls
Business Partnering
Financial Strategy

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Provides life sciences products and services

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a variety of products and services that support scientific research and healthcare, including laboratory equipment, reagents, and software solutions. Their products are used in applications like protein biology, real-time PCR, and sequencing, serving clients such as academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Unlike competitors, Thermo Fisher emphasizes customer support and education, helping clients optimize their experiments. The company's goal is to be a leading provider of life sciences solutions that contribute to a healthier and safer world.

Waltham, MassachusettsHeadquarters
1956Year Founded
$17MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Biotechnology, HealthcareIndustries
10,001+Employees

Risks

Increased competition in single-use bioprocessing may impact market share.
Sale of anatomical pathology business could create a temporary product gap.
Investment in miDiagnostics may face regulatory challenges affecting returns.

Differentiation

Thermo Fisher offers a comprehensive range of life sciences products and services.
Their well-known brands include Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, and Invitrogen.
They provide strong customer support and educational resources to optimize client workflows.

Upsides

Expansion of biologics production facility enhances capacity for precision biologics monitoring.
Investment in miDiagnostics aligns with demand for rapid diagnostic solutions in BioPharma.
Collaboration with Mainz Biomed positions them in the growing cancer detection market.

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