How will you make an impact
Reporting to the LCD Division Controller, the Regional Accounting Manager will act as the operational accounting control leader for EMEA entities within the Laboratory Chemicals Division, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting, balance sheet quality, and compliance with corporate standards.
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Reporting to the LCD Division Controller, the Regional Accounting Manager will act as the operational accounting control leader for EMEA entities within the Laboratory Chemicals Division, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting, balance sheet quality, and compliance with corporate standards.
You will serve as the critical link between site-level execution and the Division Controller, providing oversight, challenge, and escalation to ensure consistent application of accounting policies and controls across the region, while execution of activities remains within site teams.
In this role, you will lead a geographically dispersed team of accounting professionals, strengthening operational discipline and ensuring consistent execution of accounting processes across sites. You will play a key role in maintaining a strong control environment, improving process consistency, and supporting sound business decision‑making.
What Will You Do
- Provide oversight of transactional accounting processes, ensuring alignment with accounting standards and strong and consistent execution
- Own balance sheet governance and financial integrity across EMEA entities
- Oversee and challenge balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of reconciling items
- Provide oversight of key accounting processes, ensuring adherence to control requirements, segregation of duties, and corporate policies
- Act as a key escalation point for accounting issues arising from site teams, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate escalation where required
- Own governance of local controls and ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies and Divisional Approval Authority Matrix
- Ensure timely and accurate US GAAP financial reporting across EMEA entities
- Coordinate regional financial audits and act as the key point of contact for internal and external auditors
- Provide leadership across a regional, multi‑site accounting environment, driving performance, accountability, and development
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process gaps and enhancing efficiency, controls, and scalability
How will you get here
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and hold teams accountable
- Solid understanding of internal controls, audit requirements, and operational accounting processes
- Proven ability to analyze and communicate complex financial information clearly and effectively
- Experience driving process improvement and strengthening control environments
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, multi-site environment, driving alignment across teams
- Experience operating in complex, evolving environments with high levels of ambiguity
Education / Experience
- CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified
- 5-8 years relevant post‑qualification experience in accounting, controllership, or financial operations
- Experience leading accounting activities across multiple entities or regions in a complex environment
- Strong understanding of internal controls, audit requirements, and financial reporting (Including US GAAP preferred)
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams across multiple locations
- Strong analytical, investigative, and problem‑solving skills, with attention to detail
- Experience driving process improvement and operate effectively in a fast‑paced, evolving environment
Equal Opportunity Statement
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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