Sr. Financial Analyst

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Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $44 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 125,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

How You'll Drive Impact!

In this highly collaborative and visible position, you will support the financial and operational elements of our Digital Shared Services P&L and play a key role in developing and scaling new, digital capabilities across the company.  This position will partner with Digital and Finance leadership teams by bringing strong capabilities in forecasting and analysis, trend identification, and insight generation to support impactful reporting, along with effective process management. They will link to finance colleagues across Digital Finance, Global IT Finance and Corporate Functions finance teams to ensure alignment financially and around core results for Corporate FP&A.

This position offers the right candidate an opportunity for career development and growth while supporting a function that is implementing innovative digital tools and technologies across the company.

The ideal candidate is a high potential, someone who excels at problem-solving and activating insights, while consistently showcasing their ability to improve controls, streamline processes, and optimize efficiency.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Providing financial planning and analysis support to the Digital Shared Services teams and the Global IT Shared Service organization around monthly/quarterly reporting, and planning/forecasting mechanisms.
• Developing the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and monthly forecasts; conducting variance analysis; preparing AR financials and other ad hoc analysis.
• Completing key month-end close processes and post-close reporting for operating expenses and capital spending.
• Partner with Digital teams to educate and ensure alignment on classification between Capital vs Expense of internally developed software per the accounting policy; collaborate with the Technical Accounting team as necessary
• Drive key analytics around headcount (HC) and labor charge backs to make recommendations on overall HC strategy and chargeback model.
• Delivering operational improvements to drive efficiency and customer ease of use.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analyses and modeling as required.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.

Experience

• 4-5+ years of direct experience in financial analysis, reporting, and accounting leadership within a large, matrixed organization
• Desire to formulate and drive operational improvements, challenging the status quo
• Demonstrated focus on being able to translate data and metrics into predictable, value-add business insight.
• Professional maturity and communication style to interact directly with leadership across functions
• Strong results orientation, bias for action
• Experience with ERP systems (ie. SAP), Hyperion, and digital tools (ie. PowerBI)
• Excel expertise with advanced knowledge of pivots, charts, and formulas; strong financial modeling skills

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• High Potential Talent: A strong finance leader able to demonstrate consistent performance, drive, flexibility, and intellectual curiosity.
• Influence: Ability to understand and translate business challenges and requirements into digital and financial solutions
• Agility: Able to balance/flex between handling day-to-day finance responsibilities and project work, to drive company growth and/or efficiency.
• Prioritization: Able to focus and prioritize the most impactful goals and deliver outstanding results; ability to execute against projects and partner with cross-functional teams and deliver results in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Data-Focused: Able to acquire and analyze data and use it to drive forecasting and identification of risks and opportunities within financial results vs. plan.
• Innovative: Challenges core processes and uses prior finance experience to drive innovative solutions and daily efficiency.
• Communication: Clear and concise written and verbal skills.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards