Financial Analyst III

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are essential 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 unique career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #95 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of more than $35 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business related field
• Preferred – Master’s Degree in Commerce, Business Administration or Finance

EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years proven experience in Finance
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
• Prior experience in FP&A
• Prior experience/familiarity with business intelligence, data analytics is preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required to collaborate with various partners across business (finance users) and technical solutioning team (IT)
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work. Ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines and multi-task in deadline driven environment
• Proficient user of systems (i.e. SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion planning, Power BI, Cognos, excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Knowledge of business intelligence, data analytics/visualization, and process optimization
• Able to anticipate and plan for the unexpected and solve problems while maintaining a big picture perspective
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize work based on business needs
• Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic to get the job done
• Self-starter with the ability to learn new tools, systems and processes quickly
  Travel requirements • 10% domestic/international travel require

• 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.)
• Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support, independently conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights and observations
• 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
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy
• Cover for other Business Services functions and get involved into finance projects as needed