Thailand Country Finance Lead

Key Role and Responsibilities

• Commercial Finance / Business Partner
• Provide day-to-day finance leadership for FP&A and business partnership for the division’s operating teams to drive business performance
• Provide strategic guidance to business partners to capitalize on opportunities
• Demonstrate world class partnership to operating partners including managing and forecasting operating expense and capital spend
• Drive monthly forecasting, annual operating plan and future planning (AOP / STRAP), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), in a matrixed environment, ensuring financial decisions support company goals and current market conditions.
• Lead pricing and commercial terms analysis for new and existing business
• Lead monthly commercial channel management reviews highlighting trending and funnel performance, won-loss analysis and existing customer performance
• Develop and lead analytical methods for exploratory and explanatory business insights
• Control and Risk Management
• Continuously establishing, updating, improving and implementing compliance-related internal control system and SOPs, ensure Thermo Fisher’s compliance requirements being carried through the company, the employees, and external business partners, e.g. distributors, dealers and vendors
• Provide support and advice on compliance related matters. Monitor and test behavior of employee and external business partners against company integrity rules and report findings to business leadership.
• Perform risk assessment of 3rd party intermediaries and develop recommendations to minimize their risk to the business.
• Support management to define and implement improvement strategy and actions regarding revealed compliance issue (supervising result, process gap, investigation result follow up).
• Support different compliance projects. Handle the implementation of compliance programs.
• Communicate compliance rules to employees, external business partners and educate them on how to apply these rules. Ensure all employees are adequately aware and trained on Thermo Fisher business ethics, policies and procedures. Build and maintain a culture of integrity.
• Tax & Audit
• Prepares or coordinates replies to tax authority audits, working with various departments to collate the information required and ensuring the reply is appropriate to the queries raised.
• Reviews tax accounting quarterly tax packs prepared by local accountants and prepares tax accounting quarterly packs for certain complex assigned entities.
• Provides reports to Management on status of Corporate Tax compliance.
• Supports tax accounting and manages/ participates in project work.
• Provide support to internal and external audits.

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum 10 years working experience in MNC
• Self-motivated, customer oriented and result driven.
• Organized, with ability to maintain accuracy of information and meet deadlines set on time
• Good commercial sense and comfortable navigating through matrix organization. Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity
• Comfortable with communicating with senior management and cross function. Strong influencing skill.
• Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, while also driving collaboration and coordination across key projects
• Strong sense on numbers and proficient in excel, finance modeling. Detail driven, able to handle large amount of data and multiple systems, find out logic and fix problems from root cause.
• Ability to handle highly critical information with absolute confidentiality and integrity.
• Capable of learning new things and able to learn on the fly.