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At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #95 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of more than $40 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 120,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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The Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services ensures the delivery of both large and small scale programs and projects within the global payroll organization including and various small to large scale acquisitions and implementations. The successful candidate oversees cost, quality, plan, time, resource allocation and benefits realization. By ensuring that all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for Thermo Fisher, the Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services ensures execution is controlled and goals are achieved on time. The Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services implements standard methodologies to enable the successful delivery of a broad scope of country payroll programs across Thermo Fisher’s global footprint. Main responsibilities of the Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services include scope management; project vision and blueprint development; benefits and quality management; partner management; portfolio management, and program planning including achievement management; risk and issue management; and vendor management. Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions logs; resource forecasting; change control; dependency management; and project reporting.
These are highly visibility projects that will need someone with both strategic and execution skills, a proven track record of successful execution in the payroll space and the ability to work well with and influence internal and external partners.
The Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services will have extensive experience within global payroll space including advanced SAP technology proficiency and sophisticated project management methodology competence. In this highly visible role, the Senior Payroll Manager will have daily oversight of 8 - 12 project managers and the global payroll portfolio of projects. This role collaborates with business partners, key vendors (ADP, Workday, etc.), to ensure project execution is timely, accurate and on budget.
The Senior Payroll Manager is the go to subject matter expert regarding payroll capabilities, supporting the Payroll Director as needed to optimize Global Payroll performance and GBS value. Possessing an evolved technical and customer service proficiency, this role identifies the prioritization of key initiatives which turn into actionable improvements, identifies and addresses training needs of their team, mentors/coaches employees and supervises portfolio progress. Creating a stable, standardized, and consistent approach is critical to ensure GFS meets and exceeds customer and leadership expectations.

A day in the Life:

• Leads the day to day activities of 8 - 12 project managers across the globe.
• Establish and maintain a program road map from concept to conclusion.
• Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.
• Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.
• Set standards and processes for the portfolio and ensure all constituents are aligned.
• Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.
• Facilitate meetings regarding portfolio on a regular basis.
• Handle small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple projects and across multiple departments simultaneously.
• Lead project-related reporting and communication.
• Compile and lead project related financial and important metric information.
• Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are used.

Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.

Keys to Success:

• Must perform well in high-energy, dynamic, and team-oriented environments
• Consistent track record for planning, carrying out, controlling and closing projects and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization
• Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key collaborators.
• Experience of handling the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 10+ people.
• Solid skills in creating and maintaining project plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies.
• Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations.
• Respectful ability to influence others at all levels of the business.
• Willingness to provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point

Education

• Bachelor’s degree and work-related experience, required
• CPP/PMP a plus

Experience

• Extensive experience working in a multifaceted payroll position within a global delivery environment, required
• APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experienced knowledge of ADP Global View/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required
• Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required
• Strong leadership presence, required

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

This position could require 10% - 25% travel from the home location to include multiple nights.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!