Sr Financial Analyst LED FP A

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How you will make an impact:

Seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst who will be an integral part of the Lab Equipment Division (LED) FP&A team to support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives. The scope of responsibilities includes all FP&A planning, analysis & reporting to execute financial goals and initiatives to support a growing organization. This role will also be the main finance partner for the LED Marketing function.

What you will do:

• Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights, and support monthly /quarterly /annual forecasting and budgeting process (i.e. support MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.)
• Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by data-mining in various systems
• Independently investigate data issues and/or information given, ask pertinent questions and identify root causes, collaborate with functional business partners and system support to improve data quality
• Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for strategic decision support, independently conduct ad-hoc data analysis to identify business insights and observations
• Partner with the LED business unit teams in setting and delivering annual, long-range, and quarterly business plans to meet key operating and financial goals
• Analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting for the marketing function
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, FX, operating expense, etc.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools (including AI) to improve analytics capability and accuracy

Requirements:

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field

Experience

• 3+ years relevant experience in finance
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proficient user of systems (i.e. CMR, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, Salesforce, excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to summarize and present information in a concise and effective manner
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work. Ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines and multi-task in deadline driven environment
• Good understanding of business processes and operations & financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses in existing process and recommend mitigation actions