Lead finance team focused on HR function, manage financial planning, analyze performance, and support decision-making through advanced analytics and reporting.
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
Seeking a strong Finance Senior Manager who will provide finance and business partnering leadership to executives within the Human Resources (HR) function. This highly visible role will lead a finance team of 3 members and will be responsible for the financial planning and actuals analysis for the HR function. In addition, this team member will provide valuable financial decision support via sophisticated analytics/modeling, identify and implement operational improvement opportunities/Practical Process Improvement (PPI), and continue to develop a strong finance team! Role reports to Senior Director Finance, Corporate Functions.
What You Will Do:
- Lead Annual Operating Plan (AOP) activities
- Lead AOP/forecast vs. actual expense analysis on monthly & quarterly basis for Operating Expenses (OpEx) and Capital Expenses (CapEx)
- Lead Strategic Plan (STRAP) for Corporate HR function
- Demonstrate ability to use complex data for problem solving
- Communicate effectively including standardized monthly reporting, and ad hoc reporting
- Analyze financial and business performance against key metrics and identify pertinent financial highlights, thus understanding progress against strategic business plans
- Evolve an already strong team
- Understand and deploy the best tools and methods to effectively communicate complex data and topics; implement innovative tools/methods, as needed
- Lead integration activities, as needed
- Identify, communicate, and lead risks & opportunities review and discussion
Primary office in Waltham, MA at the Thermo Fisher Scientific headquarters.
Will consider other sites in Pittsburg, PA or Wilmington, NC.
How You Will Get Here:
Education
- An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting is required
- Masters degree strongly preferred
Experience
- 7+ years of business and Finance experience
- 1 year of people leadership experience
- Experience in leading and developing a strong team
- Experience effectively presenting to senior leaders
- Proficient at understanding and proactively communicating the financial implications of business decisions and dynamics
- Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization is preferred
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- An ideal candidate will possess excellent academic credentials and strong finance skills and accounting knowledge
- Proven understanding of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis) & PowerPoint; prior Hyperion planning (PLN 2.0) experience is strongly preferred
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills
- Proven business partner and influencer
Travel requirements
- Less than 10% travel
Top Skills
Excel
Hyperion
PowerPoint
Thermo Fisher Scientific Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Office
168 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA, United States
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