Sr. Financial Analyst GPS

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Job Description

When youre part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll do important work like helping customers in finding cures for cancer protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact and youll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How you will make an impact:

As a member of the Laboratory Equipment Division (LED) Finance team the Sr. Financial Analyst will play a key role partnering with the Growth Protection and Separation (GPS) business to drive profitable growth. The scope of responsibilities includes: cross-functional collaboration to establish and achieve quarterly and annual performance targets building and communicating financial models/scorecards/reports and providing impactful insights that support our leaders on strategic business decisions.

What you will do:

• Support/lead reviews of weekly monthly and quarterly results with GPS business team leaders providing insights on financial performance and forecast recommendations.

• Collaborate with sites regional and divisional finance teams to understand and explain P&L results

• Execute monthly financial close activities ensuring integrity and accuracy of transactions while providing meaningful analysis of variance drivers

• Develop and implement financial reporting mechanisms for both individual and consolidated segments including full P&L reporting price/margin analytics and forecasting to help drive margin expansion.

• Support monthly forecasting and SIOP process collaborate closely with business functions (Product Management Commercial Supply Chain) to help develop forecasts provide data and analysis and challenge inputs.

• Support Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Strategic Plan (STRAP) activities working across business functions (R&D regional Commercial teams and Operations) to drive alignment on financial targets.

• Support scenario analysis for strategic investments and initiatives including new product development capital headcount etc.

• Develop dashboards and critical metric tools to analyze results supporting decision-making and tracking against investment return commitments.

• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools (including AI) to improve analytics capability and accuracy

*Primary office is located in Pittsburgh PA.

How you will get here:

Education

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Economics or Business-related field

Experience

• 3 years relevant experience in finance

• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Working knowledge of GAAP and ability to perform financial statement analysis

• Proficient user of systems (i.e. CMR Hyperion Planning Power BI Cognos Salesforce 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