Financial Analyst III
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Biotechnology Research · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Financial Analyst will support the Inventory Finance team by managing FP&A activities, including monthly closing, reporting, and forecasting. They will also collaborate with business partners to improve processes through automation and data-driven insights.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. A minimum of 5 years of financial analysis experience, preferably within a large global organization, is required.
Full description
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
DESCRIPTION
How you will make an impact:
Inventory Finance is a Shared Service function within Customer Channels Group, serving research and healthcare markets.
Seeking a Senior Analyst who will be an integral part of Inventory 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:
- Completing closing activities and helping ensure accurate reporting in the monthly closing process
- Analyze transactional / operational data, recommend accruals to ensure accurate reporting
- Review monthly transactional details and identify the key factors driving variances to AOP and Forecast
- Collaborate with business partners to correct transactional errors, improve processes, and understand and generate key assumptions affecting the financials
- 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.)
- Develop process improvements through use of automation and AI technologies
REQUIREMENTS
How you will get here:
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business-related field plus 5 years of financial analysis experience, preferably in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Proficient user of systems (i.e. Oracle, 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 multitask 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
Travel requirements
- 10% domestic/international travel required
