Director, Consolidation Accounting - Join a $40B Industry Leader- Fortune 100 Company!

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.

How you will make an impact:

The Consolidation Accounting team within Corporate Financial Reporting owns the financial consolidation process. If you are passionate about running an effective and efficient financial consolidation process in a complex, multinational setting, then Thermo Fisher's consolidation accounting team is the right place for you. As the Director of Consolidation Accounting, reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, you will collaborate with Technical Accounting, External Reporting, M&A Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and Legal teams to lead the monthly corporate-level consolidation processes, focusing on practical process improvements.

What you will do:

• Provide front-line customer support for all Thermo Fisher consolidation reporting tools, including HFM, ESSBase, and FDMEE, while also providing support for a large global end-user community
• Manage and facilitate the Company's financial close process, ensuring a timely and complete roll up of data in the systems
• Manage and verify completeness and accuracy of system eliminations for intercompany balance sheet and income statement activity
• Review the system CTA (cumulative translation adjustment) calculation
• Assist in the development of the overall Finance Systems roadmap
• Be the primary point of contact for consolidation accounting matters, both with internal stakeholders as well as external auditors
• React to and triage time-sensitive close issues via troubleshooting and problem-solving

How you will get here:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Expertise with complex integrated financial reporting systems, inclusive of HFM, ESSbase and FDMEE
• Knowledge of financial consolidation, eliminations, reporting for monthly and quarterly closes, general ledgers, hierarchies and data structures
• Direct management of governance and finance system compliance in accordance with company policies, standards and SOX requirements
• Applies knowledge and understanding of financial and US GAAP accounting principles to systems and business processes
• Ability to interact and partner with all levels of management to help drive collaborative business decisions
• Possesses interpersonal and organizational skills
• High energy level; strong work ethic
• Able to anticipate change and respond to client priorities, demonstrating a "can do" attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to succinctly convey relevant information across multiple levels of the organization
• Confidently project a professional image that champions relationship building and collaboration
• Participates in the strategic business planning with business units and IT to formulate enhancement options to address specific functional issues / requirements
• Proactively identifies and troubleshoots issues (data or process) and take appropriate action to resolve

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent work experience in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Business, or a related field
• Graduate Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration and/or Information Systems or a related field (e.g., MAC, MBA or MIS) preferred
• 7+ years experience in finance or accounting with a large, complex, multinational organization

Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.