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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. 

The statutory compliance team are overall accountable for Local GAAP reporting and compliance and the full end to end audit process.

Key responsibilities
Each member of the team manages their own portfolio of entities, with activities including:
Project management:
  Project planning and deadline management (financial statements, audits, annual and interim corporate tax returns)
  Coordination with auditors, tax advisors
  Coordination with internal accounting teams and external accountants
  Coordination with tax team for technical reviews and approvals for tax filings
  Document control and coordination of signatures
  Negotiation of advisor/auditor fees and tracking vs AOP
  Review of advisor engagement letters
  Audit meetings
  Follow up and resolution of issues
  Maintaining internal project trackers and database information

Technical and accounting:
  Performing reconciliations between US GAAP and local GAAP accounting records
  Performing reconciliations between local GAAP profit and taxable profit
  Audit/tax query resolution
  Preparation of supporting schedules and analyses
  Review of financial statements
  Review of tax computations and returns
  Review of legal documentation
  Indirect tax (eg. VAT) compliance returns and all other local tax and financial/statistical returns

Other:
  Coordination with legal department over company secretarial compliance
  Support treasury department with respect to dividends and global cash management
  Assistance with tax investigations and audits
  Ad hoc reporting as required (eg interim accounts, statistical analyses)

Education and Experience:
  Self-starter who is organized and has strong technical skills
  Effective communications skills, both verbal and written; ability to collaborate with multiple relationships across different countries
  Ability to effectively manage, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines, and demonstrated successful ability to adapt to and work in a fast paced, highly dynamic work environment
  Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (equivalent to 3+ years of direct experience or a recognized accounting qualification equivalent to CPA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
  Ability to understand US and Local GAAP accounting topics as well as to understand how CRG has applied them in a complex ERP environment
  Experience using cloud-based applications such as Oracle ERP, Workday, etc will a plus
  Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or other related field, or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  Strong technical accounting skills
  Excellent organizational skills
  Interest in financial accounting
  Attention to detail and ability to multi-task daily
  Good problem solving skills
  Ability to work under own initiative and manage own time across a variety of concurrent projects with a strong focus on quality and adherence to multiple deadlines
  Effective communication skills to enable management of multiple relationships across different countries
  Ability to focus on partnering with both internal and external parties
  Ability to work with ambiguity and complexity
  Fluency in English (verbal and written)

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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