Work Schedule
Other

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

• Project management:
  • Project planning and deadline management (financial statements, audits, annual and interim corporate tax returns)
  • Coordination with auditors, tax advisors
  • Coordination with internal accounting teams and external accountants
  • Coordination with tax team for technical reviews and approvals for tax filings
  • Document control and coordination of signatures
  • Negotiation of advisor/auditor fees and tracking vs AOP
  • Review of advisor engagement letters
  • Audit meetings
  • Follow up and resolution of issues
  • Maintaining internal project trackers and database information
• Technical and accounting:
  • Performing reconciliations between US GAAP and local GAAP accounting records
  • Performing reconciliations between local GAAP profit and taxable profit
  • Audit/tax query resolution
  • Preparation of supporting schedules and analyses
  • Review of financial statements
  • Review of tax computations and returns
  • Review of legal documentation
  • Indirect tax (eg. VAT) compliance returns and all other local tax and financial/statistical returns
• Other:
  • Coordination with legal department over company secretarial compliance
  • Support treasury department with respect to dividends and global cash management
  • Assistance with tax investigations and audits
  • Ad hoc reporting as required (eg interim accounts, statistical analyses)

• Self-starter who is organized and has strong technical skills
• Effective communications skills, both verbal and written; ability to collaborate with multiple relationships across different countries
• 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 3+ years of direct experience or a recognized accounting qualification equivalent to CPA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Ability to understand US and Local GAAP accounting topics as well as to understand how CRG has applied them in a complex ERP environment
• 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

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Interest in financial accounting
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task daily
• Good problem solving skills
• Ability to work under own initiative and manage own time across a variety of concurrent projects with a strong focus on quality and adherence to multiple deadlines
• Effective communication skills to enable management of multiple relationships across different countries
• Ability to focus on partnering with both internal and external parties
• Ability to work with ambiguity and complexity
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)