This role sits within corporate finance and owns FP&A planning, analysis, and reporting, from forecasting and budgeting support to dashboards and profitability insight that help the business meet its financial goals.
The employer hasn't shared the salary for this role.
What you'll do
- Review transactional and operational data, flag anomalies, and recommend accruals or reversals to keep reporting accurate
- Build and refine recurring analyses and reports, and support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting cycles such as MBR, QBR, and AOP
- Develop dashboards, PowerPoint materials, and BI outputs by pulling data from multiple systems
- Investigate data issues independently, identify root causes, and work with business partners and system support to improve data quality
- Translate business inputs into financial assumptions and maintain forecast models covering revenue, pricing, opex, and CAPEX
- Analyze product and service profitability, identify P&L drivers including manufacturing and SIOP, and recommend actions on risks and opportunities
What you bring
- Four to five years of FP&A experience in a large, global, highly matrixed organization
- Proficiency in systems such as SAP, Hyperion, Power BI, Cognos, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Clear verbal and written communication, with the ability to summarize and present information concisely
- Strong attention to detail, the ability to meet deadlines, and comfort managing multiple priorities, with a sound grasp of business processes and financial controls to spot control gaps
Skills mentioned
Full job description
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important 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 outstanding career experiences and perspectives.
How you will make an impact:
Seeking an Analyst who will be an integral part of corporate finance team to support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives. The scope of responsibilities includes all FP&A planning, analysis & reporting to execute financial goals and initiatives to support a growing organization.
What you will do:
- Analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting
- 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.)
- Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by data-mining in various systems
- 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
- 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
- Analyze the profitability of products and services, identify P&L drivers including manufacturing and SIOP to identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions
- Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, new product launch, pricing, operating expense, CAPEX etc.
- Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy
How you will get here:
Requirements
- 4-5 years of financial planning & analysis experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Proficient user of systems (i.e. SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion planning, Power BI, Cognos, excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to summarize and present information in a concise and effective manner
- Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work. Ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines and multi-task in deadline driven environment
- Good understanding of business processes and operations & financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses in existing process and recommend mitigation actions
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