Financial Accountant in Paisley

Location: Paisley

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Hours: Full-time

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and driven qualified to join the Global Business Services team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a progressive centre of excellence in an organisation considered a global leader in its field.

The position is in the Record to Report (RtR) team of our Global Business Services (GBS) Shared Service Centre. The team provides financial controllership in the region for three of the Thermo Fisher Scientific groups – Clinical Research Group (CRG), Life Sciences and Laboratory Products Group (LSLPG), Special Diagnostics Group (SDG) and Analytical Instruments Group (AIG). We are responsible for a large number of entities reporting a total of over $10 Billion of revenue per year!

The successful candidate will lead the US GAAP financials of a number of legal entities, working closely with the Accounting Operations team to ensure financial accuracy and timely deliverance of close activities. You will be encouraged to demonstrate yourself as a knowledge leader in the Record to Report team; able to investigate and resolve accounting problems. As an Accountant, be highly motivated and detail oriented individual with excellent communication, mentoring and organisational skills relevant to the role. You are a self-starter, technically astute, and have the ability to prioritise and follow through in a dynamic, corporate environment. In addition, be the go to for our internal partners .

What will you do?

Drive the US GAAP end to end financials across a number of EMEA legal entities

Analyse profit and loss account and balance sheet trends and variances

Perform review and approval activities at month end, including high risk journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations

Review general ledger activity, researching and correcting account discrepancies

Perform balance sheet deep dives and present outcomes to stakeholders

Collaborate with internal stakeholders as point of contact

Oversee the timeliness of financial reporting for the EMEA region

Run monthly business reviews with stakeholders

Proactively participate in PPI (Practical Process Improvement) initiatives, including Gemba Walks, Just Do Its, Kaizen events, and daily Tier management

Complete a variety of special projects as and when requested

Who we are looking for:

Qualified Accountant (CA, CIMA or ACCA)

Able to coordinate and prioritise multiple complex situations

Accuracy is required in performing all aspects of the role

High level of proactivity to drive continuous improvement

Deep technical accounting expertise

Strong investigative, analytical and problem solving skills

Comfortable communicating with and presenting to various stakeholders

Strong understanding of US GAAP (Desired but not crucial)

Excellent interpersonal skills to interact at various levels inside and outside the organisation

Proficient in MS Excel

Working knowledge of ERPs (Desired but not essential)

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.