Accounting Supervisor

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) 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.

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. Surrounded by collaborative colleagues, you’ll have the support and opportunities that only a global leader can give you. Our respected, growing organization has an exceptional strategy for the near term and beyond. Take your place on our strong team and help us make significant contributions to the world.

Position Summary

The position is a key role to lead local entity Accounting/Control activities for Electron Microscopy (EM) Business in FEI Company Taiwan Branch, a group company of Thermo Fisher Scientific. As an Accounting Supervisor the position will closely work with business leaders in Taiwan as well as regional/ global counterparts for assigned business divisions and contributes to the business divisions’ performance improvement by providing accurate financial reporting and control environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee accounting functions: A/P, Cash, General Accounting, Payroll, Commission, Tax.
• Implement and maintain controls that are in adherence with SOX and US GAAP.
• Mange (and improve) the month-end and quarter-end close and reporting process: prepare timely, accurate and complete monthly and quarterly financial accounts to fulfill local and corporate reporting requirements.
• Review and prepare account reconciliations and journal entries and ensure accounting activities are well supported, documented and audit ready.
• Maintain full ownership of the general ledger to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Manage property, sales and corporate tax compliance and relationship with corporate parent.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve internal processes to ensure that the changing business dynamics are met. This could involve participating and/or leading meetings with business partners and being able to develop action plans.
• Completes other projects and ad hoc analyses as needed by the Finance Manager
• Manage, coach and develop the accounting team to enable professional and technical growth
• Manage internal and external audits
• Ability to work with all departments to assist in the preparation of their annual budgets, tracking of the budgets throughout the year, and ability to upload budgets from our local system to a divisional template / system
• Develop, monitor, and deploy revenue and EBITA contingencies to ensure business unit financial commitments are met
  

Attributes/Skills

• Requires expertise and proficiency in application of US GAAP policies, and local company policies (CPA not required, but is a strong plus).
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization in multi-national companies
• Be able to work in a fast-paced environment and has change management experience
• A self-starter with highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated
• Ability to influence activities of peers
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, or equivalent knowledge
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Accounting.
• Expert level Excel skills including use of Pivot tables, V-Lookups and sumifs
• Thorough understanding in financial accounting
• Good command of communicating in reading and writing English
• Hands-on experience in ERP, HFM, Essbase, Hyperion
• Big 4 CPA firm experience is preferred