It's more than just something that fills our days. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our work has a purpose. Our work requires passion and creates meaningful outcomes. Our work matters. We're sharing our expertise and technological advancements with customers, helping them make the world a better place - whether they're discovering a cure for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe.**Job Title: Automation Process Engineer****Requisition ID**:When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of an experienced, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $25 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to make significant contributions to the world.**Location/Division Specific Information**Costa Rica - Lagunilla**How will you make an impact?**Finance Digital Transformation team is an exciting and evolving organization that provides the required structure, governance, and skills to implement technology solutions such as Robotic Process Automation, Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence to enable business transformation. The team is focused on partnering with the business and digital technology teams to drive standardization, simplification, and productivity gains across Finance functionThe Automation Process engineer is responsible for providing most suited technological and process simplification solutions to drive business simplification, standardization & transformation. This individual will work collaboratively with all levels of business partners to drive global initiatives and strategies for adopting Automation Capabilities (RPA, Process Mining, Smart OCR, Process re-engineering etc.) and lead the execution of automation solutions that optimize Finance function of AIG division.**What will you do?**- Proactively engage with Finance SMEs to identify and define business problems that can be addressed through Automation.- Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing business processes and develop sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable business process improvements through value stream mapping and re-engineering.- Build the end-to-end process map across different functional processes. Understand the AS-IS processes, eliminate waste and redundancies within the AS-IS processes & then define a streamlined TO-BE process to enable the suitable automation solution.- Collect core functional/business requirements and work with Solution Architects and developers to deliver Automation projects.- Perform Cost Benefit Analysis to focus on the top critical processes that need to be automated through automation.- Review funneled projects with the Automation Governance Council, prioritize automation projects based on cost benefit analysis and hand-over for development.- Identify repetitive manual tasks & justify the benefits of process automation. Focus on driving the productivity improvements at a micro-process level and contribute through diverse automation methods.- Ensure requirements are documented, traceable, and testable through to implementation.- Evangelize Automation by working across functional groups to educate and promote the capabilities and efficiencies that can be achieved through automation.- Organize project teams comprising from internal and external technical and functional experts based on budget, scope, and timeline.- Manage day-to-day execution of multiple interdependent projects by working directly with global technical teams.- Coordinate execution across multiple projects and drive shared approach and outcomes tracking- Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies. Partner with technical and operational teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required- Manage project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project- Manage internal customer communication and progress reporting at different levels of the organization including leadership and executives- Ensure quality of work is verified and matching customer expectations**Education**- Bachelors' degree in Information Systems / Finance or any other relevant field**Experience**- 1 - 3 years of Finance domain expertise required.- 1-2 years of hands-on experience on RPA tools and cognitive platforms such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Process mining etc. UiPath experience is highly preferred.- Experience with Scrum /Agile development methodologies is preferred.**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely is critical for this role.- Ability to quickly learn and analyze the requirement, terms and propose a viable solution.- A well-qualified individual with thorough knowledge of financial concepts, processes, models, and strategies is a must.- Six Sigma Green Belt Certification and/or related business process excellence tra
