Sr Financial Analyst

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
• 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.
• Proven history of working cross functionally as well as the ability to build organizational relationships with customers, peers and operating partners.
• It is required that the candidate can manage multiple assignments, has independence of judgment, and prioritizes projects and time effectively.
• The ideal candidate will have a commitment to continuous learning, show career progression and development, and seek opportunities to stretch capabilities.
• Excellent skills with MS Excel and MS PowerPoint are required.
• Excellent English proficiency

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced Qualification (CPA, MBA, or MS)
• Skills with Oracle, HFM, SAP, COGNOS and Power BI.
• Continous improvement experience
  Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status

• 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.