Financial Analyst II

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

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

Lab Plastics Essentials (LPE) is a business within Laboratory Products Group (LPG). LPE enables customers around the globe to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer, with products serving research, diagnostics, production and clinical settings in all market segments spanning biotech, pharma, IVD, academia, industrial and environmental.

Seeking an Analyst who will be an integral part of LPE 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 and operational data, identify anomalies, and make recommendations 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

• Advanced Degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 2 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

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