Sr Business Analyst

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Digital Finance Solutions Architect the Senior IT Business Analyst (Sr. IT BA) supports the BPG Finance organization and serves as the primary liaison between Finance and IT for change activity within the SPoT Finance Data Platform.

This role leads end-to-end change execution across data ingestion transformation curation modelling and consumption layers. The Sr. IT BA ensures Finance-driven initiatives are clearly defined thoroughly assessed governed and delivered with strong quality control and business alignment within an enterprise data environment.

Responsibilities:

Lead BPG Finance Change Delivery

• Serve as the senior IT BA for Finance-driven initiatives impacting the SPoT Finance Data Platform.

• Translate Finance reporting analytics and regulatory requirements into structured epics user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Perform comprehensive impact assessments across source systems pipelines curated datasets models dashboards and downstream consumers.

• Coordinate change activities including cutovers migrations backfills and post-deployment stabilization.

• Ensure full traceability from requirements through testing deployment and production support.

Bridge Finance and IT

• Act as the primary liaison between BPG Finance and IT Data Engineering teams.

• Facilitate solution design workshops covering source onboarding schema evolution transformation logic dimensional modelling partitioning aggregation strategies and consumption patterns.

• Define and enforce data contracts KPI definitions modelling standards and data quality controls.

• Partner with Product Owner and Scrum Master to maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to Finance priorities and platform commitments.

• Proactively identify and resolve risks dependencies and delivery blockers.

Governance Quality & Operational Control

• Define non-functional requirements including data quality thresholds security and access controls performance SLAs reliability and auditability.

• Lead testing readiness across unit integration reconciliation data quality validation performance testing and UAT of curated datasets and consumption assets.

• Establish monitoring for data quality freshness reconciliation accuracy and usage trends.

• Lead root-cause analysis of data issues and implement preventative controls and operational runbooks.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation including BRDs/FRDs technical specifications data dictionaries KPI definitions process maps runbooks and change logs.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Required Skills & Experience

• A bachelors degree in computing science information systems or a similar discipline and 7 years relevant job experience is essential.

• Significant experience supporting Finance-led change initiatives within enterprise data platform.

• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into structured actionable delivery artifacts.

• Strong SQL skills and solid understanding of dimensional modelling schema evolution metadata/lineage and data quality frameworks.

• Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules reconciliation controls and governance-aligned data assets.

• Experience leading UAT and managing cross-functional delivery.

• Strong facilitation stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with structured prioritization and attention to detail.

• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices

• Experience working with cross-functional global teams

• Ability to influence and build consensus across organizational levels

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Up to 25% travel may be required

Key Competencies

• Deliver Results: Consistently achieves business commitments by driving disciplined execution accountability and measurable outcomes in complex Finance data initiatives.

• Act with Intensity & Urgency: Demonstrates speed focus and resilience in addressing business priorities and resolving issues while maintaining appropriate controls.

• Customer Allegiance: Builds strong partnerships with internal customers by understanding business needs and delivering solutions that create measurable value.

• The Right Way: Operates with integrity and accountability ensuring compliance with enterprise governance data security and change management standards.

• Collaborate & Influence: Works effectively across functions to build alignment facilitate decisions and drive shared outcomes.

• Develop Self & Others: Actively pursues continuous learning and contributes to strengthening team capability and performance.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific each one of our 100000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular missionenabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.

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

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