About the role
AI summarisedFinancial Analyst role in the Laboratory Products Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific, responsible for FP&A planning, analysis, and reporting to support financial objectives. The analyst will analyze data, develop reports, build dashboards, and collaborate with business partners to drive insights and decision support.
Life SciencesFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- 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, STRAP, 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
Requirements
- Advanced Degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 4 years of financial planning & analysis experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
- 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