Sr Accountant (LCA)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Senior Accountant - Regional Controllership

When you’re part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do challenging work, and join a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create significant contributions to the world.

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $22 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Within CRG Controllership, the regional team are overall accountable for the USGAAP entities and the Income Statement and Balance Sheet Review, including but not limited to monthly close support and analytics.

Overview

Within CRG Controllership, the regional team are overall accountable for the USGAAP entities and the Income Statement and Balance Sheet Review, including but not limited to monthly close support and analytics.

Expectations

This role is responsible for ensuring that their allocated sections of the results for their region are accurate. They should be comfortable with challenging the status quo and proactively seeking out new ideas and solutions to strengthen performance within their immediate team. They should be able to implement these new ideas and solutions with support from leadership.

The individual should be a self-starter who can help develop a consistent foundation of high-quality data, while ensuring the ongoing day-to-day management and maintenance of that foundation. This will include but is not limited to ownership of the US GAAP data, identification of areas where change would be beneficial and using their problem-solving skills in order to provide guidance and support to direct reports and other colleagues for identifying issue resolution.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the regional Controller to have overall Accountability for USGAAP entities within the respective region within the organization
• Establish relationships with the SSC team and COE teams and connect with them regularly to ensure work is completed timely and accurately.
• Ability to understand various US GAAP accounting topics as well as the ability to understand how CRG has applied them in a complex ERP environment
• Familiarity with the Accounting Policy Manual, including how to navigate through the manual to understand and identify relevant policies
• Ability to identify where specific transactions could have accounting implications that will need to be assessed for correct treatment.
• Build close partnerships with selected other teams such as Divisional Controllership, Treasury, Tax, HR, Payroll, etc.
• Assist in the review of the regional corporate Income Statement and regional Balance Sheet
• Challenge the numbers (professional skepticism)
• Assisting to hold Shared Service Centre and COEs to account using tools such as monitoring of process metrics (KPIs and SLAs), quality checks, deadline performance
• Assisting with monthly close support & analytics (partnering with SSC)
• Assist in monitoring completion and quality review of Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Internal Controls – collaboration with Internal Controls team on recommendations for remediation of issues)
• Helping to identify and manage Financial Statement risks
• Assisting with Misstatement tracking and rectification.
• Use PPI to recommend and/or implement Process improvements
• Influence colleagues in other teams to follow processes and operate controls
• Participate in Internal initiatives and other ad hoc activities as deemed necessary.
  
  

Job Qualification

Education and Experience:

• Self-starter who can establish processes and drive change with limited guidance.
• Effective communications skills, both verbal and written; ability to collaborate with different teams across different functions within the organization.
• Ability to effectively manage, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines, and demonstrated successful ability to adapt to and work in a fast paced, highly dynamic work environment.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (equivalent to 5+ years of direct experience or a recognized accounting qualification equivalent to CPA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Ability to understand US GAAP accounting topics as well as to understand how CRG has applied them in a complex ERP environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration and the ability to influence at all levels to achieve goals.
• Experience using cloud-based applications such as Oracle ERP, Workday, etc will a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or other related field, or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualifications
• Years of experience refers to typical years of related experience needed to gain the required knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the job. Years of experience are not to be used as the only determining factor in establishing the job class or making employment selection decisions.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to focus on partnering with internal customers.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task daily.
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work with ambiguity and complexity.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Good business acumen with ability to understand complex organizational structures and environments.
• Advanced level of skill in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)