Senior Accountant responsible for revenue recognition and financial analysis in a hybrid role. Collaborating with departments to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with GAAP.
About the role
- Senior Accountant managing fixed asset accounting for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Providing technical guidance and oversight in finance for fixed assets within the BioProduction Group.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance to accounting teams and financial partners on fixed asset qualifications, capitalization criteria, and useful life determinations.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards relevant to fixed assets (e.g., ASC 360, IAS 16).
- Review and approve capital acquisition requests from business partners, ensuring adherence to approval limits and capital policies.
- Monitor and reconcile construction-in-progress (CIP) accounts, ensuring timely capitalization of completed assets.
- Coordinate and review depreciation accruals, impairment assessments, and adjustments for delayed capitalizations.
- Partner with FP&A, Operations, and Project Management teams to review project spending, validate CIP balances, and ensure accuracy of capitalized costs.
- Lead the improvement of current fixed asset accounting and reporting processes.
- Assist with property tax reporting and other various compliance reporting.
- Ensure adherence to internal control requirements under SOX and Thermo Fisher’s global accounting policies.
- Design the physical inventory counts and the labeling of fixed assets.
- Support internal and external audits by providing detailed schedules and documentation.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree is required, ideally in Finance or Accounting.
- Candidates should have 4 to 6 years of accounting experience.
- At least 2 of those years must focus on fixed asset accounting.
- Experience in manufacturing or industries with significant capital investment is highly advantageous.
- Experience operating within a large ERP system environment (e.g., Oracle, SAP, NetSuite).
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including 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, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our 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
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