Job Information
ThermoFisher Scientific Cost Accountant - Projects in Quezon City, Philippines
Work Schedule
Second Shift (Afternoons)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Description:
The Cost Accountant will be part of a global project team with a strong focus on ERP system implementations. This role is critical in ensuring accurate product costing, inventory and master data across the businesses that are migrating to core ERP systems. The cost accountant will participate in a variety of tasks within each project such as data conversion, data integrity checks, inventory accuracy and testing costing data flows correctly to end systems. There will also be a portion of the role that supports the ongoing maintenance of certain data from the projects implemented.
Key Responsibilities
Project Work
Participatein ERPimplementations, upgrades,and systemenhancements specific to cost accounting and inventory.
Within each project you will partner with otherfinance project teammembers to understandthe data from the source ERP and how that needs tobe convertedto the new ERP. Training will be provided on data fieldsandvalidations that need to beperformed with the focus on improving the accuracy ofSKUcosting andmasterdata as we get closer to the go live of the project.
Participate in test cycles throughoutthe project life cycle as wecompleteboth unit testing and supportend to endtesting of costing and inventory data, includingtesting in both ERPs and other systems such as data warehouses or Power BI.
Partner with other team members onthe validation of the new value of inventory when it moves ERP and understanding through multiple conversioncyclesthe drivers for any large inventory revaluations and offering remediation whereappropriate.
Participate in post go live support for projects with a focus onidentifyingany large variances and working to re-roll costs ifappropriateor providing correcting entries ahead of month end.
Engage cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and support data-driven decision-making.
Create,maintain, and update documentation to reflect system and process changes as needed.
Explore and then put into practice howAI and automationcanenhance cost accounting processes and data analysisin projects..
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
5+ years of progressive cost accounting experienceideally in a manufacturing environment.
Strongexpertisein ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, or similar) with hands-on experience in implementationsor major upgrades.
In-depth knowledge of standard costing, variance analysis, and inventory accounting.
Experienceparticipatingina global cost roll.
Flexibility to work across time zones to support global teams and projects.
Key Competencies
ERP and systemsexpertise
Costingand inventory accounting
Data governance and compliance
Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset
Curiosityabout AIand automation tools
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