Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
 

Position Summary:

Reporting to the VP of Finance, the Executive Director, FP&A is a highly strategic and detail-oriented individual who will lead our finance function across key areas: Authorizations portfolio management and Advanced Analytics & Insights. In this critical leadership role, you will oversee financial governance of study/project authorizations and deliver actionable insights to drive business performance in a fast-paced Clinical Research Group.

Key responsibilities include driving the financial performance of the business by providing financial insights, analysis, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making. This role will involve collaborating closely with various division and functional owners, to ensure alignment with financial goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Authorizations - Partner with operational and project delivery teams to ensure accurate study-level financial approvals. Defining strategy, partnering with business leaders and driving policy changes and updates. Work with commercial operations team on items outside of policy. Ensuring compliance and accounting in line with policy. Lead the financial oversight of authorizations operational budget. Establish and enforce controls related to budget change authorizations and scope amendments. Manage alignment between SOWs, budgets, and Authorization forecasts.

• Analytics & Insights – Translate complex financial data into strategic insights for senior leadership and key stakeholders. Build and lead a high-performing analytics team to generate insights across financial, operational, and authorizations performance.
• Act as a trusted business partner to leaders and build an environment to both challenge and support stakeholders with sound financial guidance and strategic insights; suggest corrective actions
• Thought leadership to drive relevant analysis during key strategic business cycles such as STRAP, AOP, Forecast, MBRs, and QBRs, supporting leadership in identifying actions to improve the business

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
   
• Previous FP&A finance experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 12 years’ experience) 

• Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale budgets, cash forecasting models, and financial analytics platforms.
   
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive financial discipline.
   

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven track record delivering exceptional results through an impactful team and getting results beyond the finance function
• Outstanding leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Strong systems and data analytic capabilities including Oracle, Power BI /Tableau, SQL, SFDC
• Must possess a strong set of personal and business values that align with those of the 4is (Integrity, Innovation, Involvement, Intensity)