Financial Analyst

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:

MSD (Materials & Structural Analysis Division) is Thermo Fisher’s business focused on advanced instruments for imaging and analyzing materials at micro- to atomic-scale (e.g., electron microscopy and spectroscopy). As part of the Analytical Instruments Group, MSD serves academic, semiconductor, and industrial customers to accelerate innovation and improve product performance.

Seeking a Senior Analyst who will be an integral part of MSD Commercial finance team to support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives. The scope of responsibilities includes all commercial 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

• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including bookings, backlog, pricing, operating expense, foreign exchange, etc.

• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy

How you will get here:

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of financial analysis experience, preferably in a large global company and highly matrixed organization

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proficient user of systems (i.e. Work Force, 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