Operations Finance Analyst

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – To enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.
Alongside clinical research through our PPD® clinical research portfolio, our work in Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES) optimizes each step of the patient journey in clinical trials, such as securing sites and recruiting patients, allowing for more patients to participate in clinical research. Your determination to put patients at the heart of every decision will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
We are looking for an Operations Finance Analyst – on this role you will be responsible for the financial management of a portfolio of different clinical projects. It is a role in a dynamic environment, in which you will have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally on a global level, to manage your own projects portfolio and at the same time contribute to the business growth.
If you are looking for a commercially focused role and not the typical “management accounting” role, then apply for:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Relevant higher education;
• 2+ years of relevant financial experience
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Solid understanding of finance/accounting principles
• Exposure to forecasting/budgeting/monthly close activities
• Strong problem solving, analytical and technical aptitude
• Attention to detail
• Self-motivated
• Very good communication skills - to be able to communicate with people across the globe;
• Ability to prioritize, to meet multiple deadlines and to work under pressure
• Excellent IT skills particularly MS Excel

• Manages financially a portfolio of clinical studies;
• Liaises with multiple Project Managers and interdepartmental counterparts for the shared projects;
• Attends monthly project review calls, where to report values & make recommendations as to actions to be taken to correct or escalate issues;
• Performs analysis of budget to actual and forecast data on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases;
• Responsible for recognition of the monthly revenue and regular cost analysis;
• Following the award of a new project the analyst organizes the set-up of the project in our systems;
• Reports to a gross profit level & the update of a number of key reconciliations;
• Performs regular profitability analysis and maintains the cash flow through the life of the project by ensuring that billing is issued regularly;