Senior Manager Finance, Site Finance Lead
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for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe company overview and position summary), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements/Qualifications (Minimum Qualifications, Education/Experience), Benefits (Compensation And Benefits includes salary range and benefits), Pay (maybe separate but we can combine with Benefits? The instruction says we can have Pay and Benefits sections separately if content exists. The posting includes salary range and bonus eligibility, plus benefits list. So we could have a Pay section with salary range and bonus, and a Benefits section with benefits list. Or combine into Benefits. But they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Pay and Benefits into one Benefits section? But they gave examples: Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Since we have both salary and benefits, we could have Pay section for salary range and bonus, and Benefits section for benefits list. That's two sections.
Schedule: The posting includes "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)" and also mentions on-site presence 4–5 days per week at Plainville location. So we have schedule info. So we can include Schedule section.
Also there is "Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". That's maybe part of responsibilities or qualifications? It's a condition. Could be part of Responsibilities? It's more like a requirement: adherence to GMP safety standards. Could be included under Requirements or Responsibilities. But we can incorporate into Responsibilities as a bullet.
We need to remove EEO boilerplate etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information: company description, mission, VVS description, position summary, key responsibilities (list), minimum qualifications (list), education/experience (list), compensation and benefits (salary range, bonus, benefits list), work schedule (Mon-Fri, on-site 4-5 days), environmental conditions (GMP safety standards). Also mention relocation assistance not available.
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Let's craft sections:
- About the role (or About the company). Could include company overview, mission, VVS description, position summary. That's substantive.
- Responsibilities: list of key responsibilities.
- Requirements: combine Minimum Qualifications and Education/Experience? Could be Qualifications section. But we have both Minimum Qualifications and Education/Experience; they overlap. Could combine into Qualifications section with bullet list.
- Benefits: maybe separate Pay and Benefits. But we can have Pay section for salary range and bonus, Benefits section for benefits list.
- Schedule: work schedule and on-site presence.
- Environmental Conditions: maybe as its own section? Could be part of Responsibilities or Requirements. But we have a specific line: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". Actually the line appears: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". It seems like two items: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) and Environmental Conditions Adherence to all GMP Safety Standards. So we have schedule and environmental conditions. So we could have Schedule section (Mon-Fri) and maybe a separate section for Environmental Conditions? But they didn't list that as example heading. Could incorporate into Responsibilities or Requirements. However, we have schedule info also elsewhere: "This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard)." So schedule includes both standard Mon-Fri and on-site days.
Thus we can have Schedule section covering both.
Environmental Conditions (GMP safety standards) could be a bullet under Responsibilities or Requirements. Let's put under Responsibilities as a bullet: "Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards."
Now we need to avoid duplication: The posting also includes "Office Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader..." That's company overview.
Let's extract content:
Company overview: "Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 120,000 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. The Viral Vector Services (VVS) business, part of Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services Group, is an experienced viral vector CDMO supporting gene therapies, and is focused on process and analytical development, and clinical and commercial supply. Our highly skilled team has managed over 100 client projects delivering first-in-human clinical materials to accelerate our client’s products from the laboratory to patients in need."
Position Summary: "The Senior Finance Manager provides financial and business support for the Plainville site within the Viral Vector Services business unit. This position works closely with operating management to develop and execute strategies to drive profitable growth and improve quality and service levels for our customers. This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard). Please note that relocation assistance is not available at this time."
Key Responsibilities (list):
- Support the General Manager & leadership team to set and deliver the business plan and meet key operating & financials goals
- Manage the Annual Operating Plan process, Quarterly & Monthly Business Reviews and weekly forecasts in collaboration with the leadership team, site GM, and Finance managers.
- Ensure the site meets the monthly corporate reporting deadlines and comply with all accounting standards and US GAAP.
- Develop performance reporting tools and metrics plus analysis and recommendations to operating management to optimize business results.
- Prepare and present analysis and authorization for significant capital investments.
- Partner with commercial colleagues to develop and model customer deals. Drive and ensure contract compliance.
- Manage and drive components of cash flow including capital, inventory, and accounts receivables.
- Maintain strong internal controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards. (we added)
Minimum Qualifications (list):
- 8+ years of relevant experience in a complex, multinational, multi-site environment
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field
- Strong and persuasive communicator: essential to have credibility within a dynamic, challenging environment and in the context of providing outstanding business partnering support
- Desire to formulate and drive process improvements, challenging the status quo
- Demonstrated focus on being able to translate data and metrics into predictable, value-add business insight
- Strong results orientation, bias for action
- Experience with ERP systems (i.e. SAP)
- Advanced Hyperion or Oracle/Essbase skills
- Advanced Excel skills
Education/Experience (list):
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or relevant analytical background
- CPA, Chartered Accountant, MBA or equivalent a plus
- 8+ years of progressive relevant work experience within a global organization
Note there is overlap with Minimum Qualifications; we can combine but ensure we don't lose info. We'll combine into Qualifications section, merging unique items.
Compensation And Benefits:
- Salary range: $130,000.00–$194,950.00.
- Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results.
- Benefits: choice of national medical and dental plans, national vision plan, health incentive programs; employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement; at least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability; retirement and savings programs such as competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan; Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
We could split Pay and Benefits.
Pay section: salary range and bonus eligibility.
Benefits section: list of benefits.
Schedule section: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri); on-site presence 4–5 days per week at Plainville, MA location.
We should not include "Office Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader..." as a heading; it's part of About the role.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 120,000 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. The Viral Vector Services (VVS) business, part of Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services Group, is an experienced viral vector CDMO supporting gene therapies, and is focused on process and analytical development, and clinical and commercial supply. Our highly skilled team has managed over 100 client projects delivering first-in-human clinical materials to accelerate our client’s products from the laboratory to patients in need.
The Senior Finance Manager provides financial and business support for the Plainville site within the Viral Vector Services business unit. This position works closely with operating management to develop and execute strategies to drive profitable growth and improve quality and service levels for our customers. This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard). Please note that relocation assistance is not available at this time.
Responsibilities
- Support the General Manager & leadership team to set and deliver the business plan and meet key operating & financials goals
- Manage the Annual Operating Plan process, Quarterly & Monthly Business Reviews and weekly forecasts in collaboration with the leadership team, site GM, and Finance managers.
- Ensure the site meets the monthly corporate reporting deadlines and comply with all accounting standards and US GAAP.
- Develop performance reporting tools and metrics plus analysis and recommendations to operating management to optimize business results.
- Prepare and present analysis and authorization for significant capital investments.
- Partner with commercial colleagues to develop and model customer deals. Drive and ensure contract compliance.
- Manage and drive components of cash flow including capital, inventory, and accounts receivables.
- Maintain strong internal controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards.
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe company overview and position summary), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements/Qualifications (Minimum Qualifications, Education/Experience), Benefits (Compensation And Benefits includes salary range and benefits), Pay (maybe separate but we can combine with Benefits? The instruction says we can have Pay and Benefits sections separately if content exists. The posting includes salary range and bonus eligibility, plus benefits list. So we could have a Pay section with salary range and bonus, and a Benefits section with benefits list. Or combine into Benefits. But they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Pay and Benefits into one Benefits section? But they gave examples: Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Since we have both salary and benefits, we could have Pay section for salary range and bonus, and Benefits section for benefits list. That's two sections. Schedule: The posting includes "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)" and also mentions on-site presence 4–5 days per week at Plainville location. So we have schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. Also there is "Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". That's maybe part of responsibilities or qualifications? It's a condition. Could be part of Responsibilities? It's more like a requirement: adherence to GMP safety standards. Could be included under Requirements or Responsibilities. But we can incorporate into Responsibilities as a bullet. We need to remove EEO boilerplate etc. We need to preserve all substantive information: company description, mission, VVS description, position summary, key responsibilities (list), minimum qualifications (list), education/experience (list), compensation and benefits (salary range, bonus, benefits list), work schedule (Mon-Fri, on-site 4-5 days), environmental conditions (GMP safety standards). Also mention relocation assistance not available. We need to format as HTML fragment with
headings and
or
- .
We must not include markdown fences.
Let's craft sections:
- About the role (or About the company). Could include company overview, mission, VVS description, position summary. That's substantive.
- Responsibilities: list of key responsibilities.
- Requirements: combine Minimum Qualifications and Education/Experience? Could be Qualifications section. But we have both Minimum Qualifications and Education/Experience; they overlap. Could combine into Qualifications section with bullet list.
- Benefits: maybe separate Pay and Benefits. But we can have Pay section for salary range and bonus, Benefits section for benefits list.
- Schedule: work schedule and on-site presence.
- Environmental Conditions: maybe as its own section? Could be part of Responsibilities or Requirements. But we have a specific line: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". Actually the line appears: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards". It seems like two items: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) and Environmental Conditions Adherence to all GMP Safety Standards. So we have schedule and environmental conditions. So we could have Schedule section (Mon-Fri) and maybe a separate section for Environmental Conditions? But they didn't list that as example heading. Could incorporate into Responsibilities or Requirements. However, we have schedule info also elsewhere: "This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard)." So schedule includes both standard Mon-Fri and on-site days.
Thus we can have Schedule section covering both.
Environmental Conditions (GMP safety standards) could be a bullet under Responsibilities or Requirements. Let's put under Responsibilities as a bullet: "Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards."
Now we need to avoid duplication: The posting also includes "Office Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader..." That's company overview.
Let's extract content:
Company overview: "Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 120,000 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. The Viral Vector Services (VVS) business, part of Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services Group, is an experienced viral vector CDMO supporting gene therapies, and is focused on process and analytical development, and clinical and commercial supply. Our highly skilled team has managed over 100 client projects delivering first-in-human clinical materials to accelerate our client’s products from the laboratory to patients in need."
Position Summary: "The Senior Finance Manager provides financial and business support for the Plainville site within the Viral Vector Services business unit. This position works closely with operating management to develop and execute strategies to drive profitable growth and improve quality and service levels for our customers. This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard). Please note that relocation assistance is not available at this time."
Key Responsibilities (list):
- Support the General Manager & leadership team to set and deliver the business plan and meet key operating & financials goals
- Manage the Annual Operating Plan process, Quarterly & Monthly Business Reviews and weekly forecasts in collaboration with the leadership team, site GM, and Finance managers.
- Ensure the site meets the monthly corporate reporting deadlines and comply with all accounting standards and US GAAP.
- Develop performance reporting tools and metrics plus analysis and recommendations to operating management to optimize business results.
- Prepare and present analysis and authorization for significant capital investments.
- Partner with commercial colleagues to develop and model customer deals. Drive and ensure contract compliance.
- Manage and drive components of cash flow including capital, inventory, and accounts receivables.
- Maintain strong internal controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards. (we added)
Minimum Qualifications (list):
- 8+ years of relevant experience in a complex, multinational, multi-site environment
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field
- Strong and persuasive communicator: essential to have credibility within a dynamic, challenging environment and in the context of providing outstanding business partnering support
- Desire to formulate and drive process improvements, challenging the status quo
- Demonstrated focus on being able to translate data and metrics into predictable, value-add business insight
- Strong results orientation, bias for action
- Experience with ERP systems (i.e. SAP)
- Advanced Hyperion or Oracle/Essbase skills
- Advanced Excel skills
Education/Experience (list):
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or relevant analytical background
- CPA, Chartered Accountant, MBA or equivalent a plus
- 8+ years of progressive relevant work experience within a global organization
Note there is overlap with Minimum Qualifications; we can combine but ensure we don't lose info. We'll combine into Qualifications section, merging unique items.
Compensation And Benefits:
- Salary range: $130,000.00–$194,950.00.
- Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results.
- Benefits: choice of national medical and dental plans, national vision plan, health incentive programs; employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement; at least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability; retirement and savings programs such as competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan; Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
We could split Pay and Benefits.
Pay section: salary range and bonus eligibility.
Benefits section: list of benefits.
Schedule section: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri); on-site presence 4–5 days per week at Plainville, MA location.
We should not include "Office Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader..." as a heading; it's part of About the role.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 120,000 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. The Viral Vector Services (VVS) business, part of Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services Group, is an experienced viral vector CDMO supporting gene therapies, and is focused on process and analytical development, and clinical and commercial supply. Our highly skilled team has managed over 100 client projects delivering first-in-human clinical materials to accelerate our client’s products from the laboratory to patients in need.
The Senior Finance Manager provides financial and business support for the Plainville site within the Viral Vector Services business unit. This position works closely with operating management to develop and execute strategies to drive profitable growth and improve quality and service levels for our customers. This position requires an on-site presence of 4–5 days per week at our Plainville, MA location (5 Commerce Boulevard). Please note that relocation assistance is not available at this time.
Responsibilities
- Support the General Manager & leadership team to set and deliver the business plan and meet key operating & financials goals
- Manage the Annual Operating Plan process, Quarterly & Monthly Business Reviews and weekly forecasts in collaboration with the leadership team, site GM, and Finance managers.
- Ensure the site meets the monthly corporate reporting deadlines and comply with all accounting standards and US GAAP.
- Develop performance reporting tools and metrics plus analysis and recommendations to operating management to optimize business results.
- Prepare and present analysis and authorization for significant capital investments.
- Partner with commercial colleagues to develop and model customer deals. Drive and ensure contract compliance.
- Manage and drive components of cash flow including capital, inventory, and accounts receivables.
- Maintain strong internal controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and safety standards.