About the role

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This Senior Financial Analyst role provides commercial finance leadership and FP&A support for Thermo Fisher Scientific's Southeast Asia operations. The position involves driving business performance through financial insights, managing annual operating plans, and ensuring robust internal controls within a complex global matrix environment.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day finance leadership for FP&A and business partnership for country’s operating teams to drive business while also optimizing commercial performance
Collaborate with commercial business partners, country and regional division finance teams to ensure key deliverables and timelines for business reviews / submissions are met
Build templates to facilitate efficient and effective planning, reconciliation and reviews
Understand the business, track and analyse monthly forecasts vs actuals for backlog, bookings and revenue by accounts, market segments or business units
Communicate key risks and opportunities, identify corrective actions and partner with commercial business partners to meet/exceed growth targets
Drive monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBR/QBR), annual operating plan (AOP) and long range strategic plan (STRAP) in a matrixed environment
Support pricing and commercial terms analysis for new and existing businesses
Use Hyperion Planning for loading of forecast and planning financial numbers, where applicable
Continuously establish, update, improve and implement compliance-related internal control system and SOPs
Provide support to tax, internal and external audits where applicable in nominal scenarios

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Finance or equivalent
At least 4 years of progressive experience in commercial finance or FP&A
At least 6 years of experience in a large global company
Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities with advanced Excel skills
Able to work independently, self-motivated, hands-on and meticulous
Good personal efficiency to prioritize or initiate escalation where needed
Keen learner with an inquisitive mind, good commercial sense and comfortable handling ambiguity at times
Strong verbal and written communication, with good interpersonal skills / ability to influence across divisions and functions
Able to work under pressure, in a complex matrix environment
Able to handle highly critical information with absolute confidentiality and integrity
Applied knowledge of various reporting systems (e.g. Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning) would be an advantage
Applied knowledge of business and AI tools (e.g. SFDC, Power BI, Robotic Process Automation, ChatGPT) would be an advantage