Financial Analyst II

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB SUMMARY:

The FP&A Senior Financial Analyst provides financial business partnering support to our Global Finance Shared Services business leaders and is part of a global collaborative team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or other relevant background
• 3-5 years of Financial Analysis experience in a multinational environment
• Proficiency in the following areas: financial analysis and reporting, forecasting, internal controls, and technical accounting knowledge.
• Strong business insight as well as the ability to make logical assumptions, identify trends, include third-party and internal information, and effectively benchmark results against appropriate baselines.
• The ability to identify and cultivate productivity improvements.
• Strong written communication skills, along with clear and concise verbal skills. The ideal candidate will have the ability to obtain operational agreement with easy-to-understand analysis and presentations with the ability to engage in communication at the executive level.

• Partner with the Operational workstream leader, their leadership team to plan, forecast and report spend, along with performance metric’s tracking and headcount analysis.
• Coordination, preparation, and analysis of the Monthly/Quarterly results, and Annual Operating Plan.
• Generate flash reports with insights of risks & opportunities for top management decision making.
• Perform entries to distribute allocations to divisions, including developing the allocation methodology.
• Coordination, completion, and review of month end close process and post close reporting cycles.
• Participate in Corporate Finance initiatives as well as support the functional standardization and continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Provide decision support analysis to the project team through routine actionable reports and as needed ad-hoc analysis of investments and benefits of implementation projects.
• Provide headcount workday reporting and trend analysis for the Share Service Center.
• Approvals of capital requests, purchase orders, Invoices, headcount changes, etc.
• Take high level direction and work independently to drive execution of department goals.
• Other special projects as assigned.