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Accountant III

ThermoFisher Scientific • Waltham, MA • 2h ago

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. The Accountant III role is an outstanding opportunity to contribute significantly to establishing the new accounting organization that was formed after a recent acquisition. This role ensures the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Filtration and Separation (FSD) division within the BioProduction Group (BPG) of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

The Accountant III is responsible for performing core general accounting activities with a strong focus on preparing and posting journal entries and completing timely, accurate account reconciliations. This role plays a key part in ensuring the integrity of the general ledger and supporting accurate financial reporting during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.

This position supports a recently acquired business where certain ledgers and processes are still maintained on the seller's systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in a non-standard, transitional environment, managing manual processes, and coordinating across systems while maintaining strong accounting discipline and controls.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and comfortable working in a structured close environment while collaborating closely with senior accountants, finance leadership, and cross-functional partners.

How you will make an impact:

Primary Responsibilities

Prepare journal entries into 4 conveyed entities and across 20 comingled entities via Blackline Journals.

Load and reconcile supplemental schedules and rollforwards used to support account balances into HFM.

Identify and resolve posting errors, misclassifications, and discrepancies in a timely manner

Ensure reconciliations are complete, accurate, and comply with internal control requirements. Support remediation of aged or complex reconciling items.

Support external and internal audits by preparing schedules, reconciliations, and documentation

Establish and execute accrual and amortization processes as new entities transition into new and existing ERP

Support ad-hoc internal, group, and corporate requests as needed

Challenge current processes to identify improvement opportunities

How you will get here:

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting (preferred), with 3+ years of progressive accounting experience

Strong expertise in General Ledger (GL) accounting and month-end close processes, preferably within a large, complex organizational environment

Experience with large-scale ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, or NetSuite

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, accruals, amortizations, and reconciliations.

Experience preparing and posting journal entries in a close-driven environment.

Experience using BlackLine for journal entries, task management, and close coordination.

Demonstrated analytical skills to solve complex problems and address a variety of variables in situations with limited standardization

Strong organizational skills to effectively balance priorities, handle workload, and complete projects on time

Highly organized and diligent, with refined time management abilities

Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal direction

Experience supporting acquisitions, carve-outs, or transitional service agreement (TSA) environments.

Experience working with non-standard ledgers, manual journal entries, or interim accounting processes.

Prior involvement in ERP implementations or ledger migrations.

Exposure to SOX or regulated environment

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Pennsylvania is $75,800.00-$113,675.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

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

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

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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