General Information

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $24 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

Southeast Asia and Taiwan as a growth engine for the company, has over 2000 employees, supporting 17 divisions cross all functions from commercial to manufacturing, R&D and supply chain.

General Requirement

We are looking for highly self-motivated accounting professionals with high ethical standard and intensive control experience. Candidate who has experience running shared service function and passionate about process improvement. A leader with business acumen. A caring manager, enjoying coaching and growing team and talents. This role will report into Southeast Asia and Taiwan Finance Lead.

Role and Responsibilities

• Leading a team of 40, cross AP, AR, GL functions.
• Fully responsible for the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process
• Preparing and presenting monthly financial packages; including in-depth analysis
• Coordinate all external tax & audit projects. Responsible for full compliance to local and corporate GAAP
• In charge of monthly balance sheet and accounting dashboard review process
• Owns working capital KPIs, actively drive working capital performance through working cross functions together with commercial and procurement functions.
• Provide coaching and guidance to next tier leaders and junior team members
• Continuously looking for process improvements opportunities, Lead the team embracing finance digital transformation. Implement finance automation projects.

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA preferred
• 10+ years of progressive Accounting experience in high intensity MNCs or big 4 audit firms.
• Ability to problem-solve efficiently and meet deadlines
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey financial information to different stakeholders