Senior Operations Business Controller

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Senior Operations Business Controller Opportunity in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Your contribution in the role

As the Senior Operations Business Controller you play a critical role in supporting the operations business at the Eindhoven site for the Electron Microscopy business, part of the Material & Structural Analysis division within Thermo Fisher Scientific. You will be the primary finance business partner for the site operations director and management team. You will be leading and inspiring a team of strong, enthusiastic finance professionals to support the business in financial planning and reporting as well as decision making on investments and future proofing the organization financially. As a financial professional within Thermo Fisher Scientific you will have an important seat at the table with a chance to bring forward and share your ideas on everything finance and improvements for the operations business

Our expectations of you in this role

• Be the strategic business partner to the operations director and site operations management team, aligning financial goals and operational objectives.

• Lead and inspire a team of 4 finance professionals with focus on talent and personal development

• Prepare Monthly/Quarterly Business Review packages.

• Lead in all aspects of finance: budgeting, forecasting, costing, inventory management and investment decisions.

• Initiate monthly cost reviews with business partners and stakeholders and bring forward view and opinions on optimization opportunities.

• Drive strong focus on standard cost analysis to support improving and optimizing profitability for the business.

• Lead analysis of productivity results and drive improvements in line with productivity targets.

• Identify, develop, and implement improvements to existing reporting processes.

• Identify improvement opportunities to automate, enhance and build analysis.

The skillset we’re looking for you to bring

• Strong leadership and business partner skills. Leading by example, support and challenge business partners and hold teams accountable to commitments and results

• Strong business sense and ability to think beyond financial implications only

• Self-motivated, flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal of getting the job done

• Financial savvy, including deep familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis, as well as in root cause data interpretation

• Organized multitasker: workload prioritization, enable the team to meet timelines while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced environment

• Effective spoken and written communication skills are required to collaborate with various partners

• Continuous Improvement approach: Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through process improvements

The education/ experience we would like to see

• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in Accounting or Finance

• Minimum of 8-10 years of dynamic finance experience with management roles, including finance leadership and experience in a global manufacturing organization