Job Description

Locations

• United Kingdom, Paisley
• Philippines, Manila
• India, Mumbai
• Hungary, Budapest

Required Qualifications

• Less than 10% domestic/international travel required (experience)

Responsibilities

• The Senior Costing Lead, Finance Projects role will be responsible for Cost Accounting and Operations Finance projects within the global finance projects team.
• Initially, this role will partner in the Cost Accounting workstream to divest the Microbiology Division (MBD), with a focus on S/4 Hana ERP transformation. This role will collaborate with stakeholders in Finance, IT, Operations, and Product Data Management. Key project deliverables include enforcing global governance standards, ensuring standard costing excellence, driving best practice data governance standards across a complex, multi-plant matrixed environment, and enabling accurate OCOGS reporting.
• After project completion this role will lead and collaborate on LSG, BPG, SDG, and/or AIG projects, but may also provide support to other Thermo Fisher Groups.
• This role will engage with finance leadership at group and division levels to ensure seamless execution of company, group, divisional and functional projects. This position will report to the Director, Finance Projects.
• Support the migration of entities into SAP S/4 Hana, with specific emphasis on migration to the manufacturing module
• Perform data validation and controls testing to ensure automated processes maintain accuracy, completeness, and compliance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live.
• Identify and ensure that business requirements are met within a project
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live
• Provide updates to senior management with focus on decisions, issues, and risks
• Lead project related change management including communication and training
• Challenge the status quo, proactively identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and automation, and/or collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. IT, COEs) to standardize processes, drive process improvements, and drive system enhancements
• Assess and implement opportunities to use AI / machine learning / generative AI tools to improve reporting efficiency, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and insight generation.
• Support ad-hoc internal, group, and corporate requests as needed.
• Support the migration of entities into SAP S/4 Hana, with specific emphasis on migration to the manufacturing module
• Perform data validation and controls testing to ensure automated processes maintain accuracy, completeness, and compliance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live.
• Identify and ensure that business requirements are met within a project
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during setup, testing, and go-live, and post go-live
• Provide updates to senior management with focus on decisions, issues, and risks
• Lead project related change management including communication and training
• Challenge the status quo, proactively identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and automation, and/or collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. IT, COEs) to standardize processes, drive process improvements, and drive system enhancements
• Assess and implement opportunities to use AI / machine learning / generative AI tools to improve reporting efficiency, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and insight generation.
• Support ad-hoc internal, group, and corporate requests as needed.
• Education Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field Experience
• 5+ years experience in Cost Accounting, Accounting, and Finance
• SAP Cost Accounting experience
• Demonstrates and drives the Thermo Fisher values – Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation (The Four I’s)
• Experience working in a global, matrixed environment preferred
• Strong team building skills and ability to work with a diverse group of customers in a global-matrixed environment
• Proven track record in attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining high-potential talent
• Self-motivated; bias for action
• Education Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field Experience

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