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Job Description

How you will make an impact:

The Financial Controller is the key player in the management and oversight of all controls, compliance and accounting activities for India. The successful candidate is responsible for the financial management and reporting within the company, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

The role requires a strong leader with a deep understanding of financial management, reporting, and a strong internal controls and compliance culture.

This role also serves as a key player on the India finance leadership team, tasked with providing financial oversight and driving sound financial decisions to support growth and improve profitability.

What you will do:

• Partner with finance and business partners in supporting key initiatives and drive financial objectives
• Own the month end accounting close and reporting process, ensuring accurate and timely results that are in compliance with Thermo Fisher Accounting Policies and Procedures, local and US accounting standards, tax legislations and legal regulations.
• Review and analyze internal financial data to identify issues, opportunities and trends and provide business leaders with financial analysis that will drive decision making including project profitability, efficiency analysis, and return on investment
• Build and uphold a robust control environment and culture to limit business risk and exposures, to safeguard the company’s assets and ensure the integrity of financial records.
• Monitor the company’s cash flow, ensure sufficient liquidity for operational needs and drive working capital improvements.
• Leadership of people to implement change, understand consequences and obtain commitment through coaching, training, and clear objective setting to meet the Company’s short term needs and long term ambition. Develop next level leaders, build and sustain employee engagement.

How you will get here:

Education

• Chartered Accountant.

Experience

• Experience in finance or accounting with min 12 years post qualification in a financial leadership role required. Experience in leading large team preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills. Must be capable of building strong cross functional relationships.

• Maintain the highest standards of accuracy and precision; meticulous, highly-organized and resourceful

• Exceptional work ethic, team mentality, positive demeanor and self-motivated

• Collaborative focus, with passion to help team achieve significant results

• Ability to work independently as well as part of an extended, cross-functional team

• Proficiency in HFM, SAP, Oracle E1 and Microsoft office.