What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Work Schedule
First Shift (Days)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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:
Requirements
First Shift (Days)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of financial analysis experience, preferably in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
- 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