Senior Finance Manager, Millersburg

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

The Single Use Division (SUD) is a $1.3 billion global business that promotes, sells, and delivers a wide range of flexible and bio rigid containment products and bioprocessing equipment to its primary customers worldwide.

Position Summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific's Single Use Division needs a Sr. Manager Finance (Site Finance Lead) to support the Millersburg, PA site and Matamoros, Mexico . This role reports to the Director, Finance Operations, and supports the site leads of each location and engages with various departments to guide decision making and drive operational improvements.

• Act as the financial leader for both Millersburg and Matamoros Leadership teams and use financial knowledge to impact decision-making

• Provide financial oversite and leadership to two sites within the SUD network
• Partner with multiple functions to assess and strategize on network optimization to improve product and total business profitability
• Guide and support team members in finance and on sites to strengthen financial foresight and leadership skills
• Key finance member on business teams and helps support cost understanding and driving margin expansion in Flexibles business
• Owner of closing financial books, reporting and building monthly forecast. Aligning with business partners to verify results and forecast assumptions
• Understand spend by department and ability to investigate issues and drive to understanding and closure
• Drive annual operating plan (AOP) process with the operations team to develop a site budget with efficiency and costs targets
• Review monthly manufacturing variances to assess site performance, and clearly communicate drivers of performance through business reviews.
• Provide finance support and oversight for supplemental metrics such as efficiency, leakage, inventory, E&O, backorder, etc
• Perform financial evaluation of capital expenditures to ensure profitable business decisions
• Identify and provide suggestions to enhance business processes and reporting for enhanced financial performance
• Proactively lead analytics to drive margin expansion.
• Offer expertise in building financial strategy in partnership with the Site Leaders
• Partner with cost accounting and global accounting teams to ensure compliance and optimized processes

How you will get here:

Education:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field

Experience:

• 8+ years related work experience
• 2+ years of experience in Manufacturing Finance or Cost Accounting roles preferred
• Prior experience in a large global and highly matrixed organization, preferably within manufacturing or supply chain

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proven business partner and influencer of outcomes. Ability to address sophisticated problems with tact and resolve
• Experience with cost accounting, close process, variance analysis and reporting, and forecasting assumptions and creation
• Organized multitasker: workload prioritization, able to meet tight deadlines while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Leader and mentor to both junior financial professionals as well as colleagues in other fields
• Consistent track record to simplify and streamline finance processes
• Highly analytical with strong business insight
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated understanding of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis), enterprise-wide ERP systems (M2M, Oracle R12), Hyperion Planning is a plus