Financial Analyst needed at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced Finance professional with strong analytical and communication skills to join our regional finance team as a Financial Analyst and support the Middle East and Africa organization.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Sr. Finance Manager in all FP&A planning, analysis, and reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support our fast growing organization.
• Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights and support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting processes.
• Build and update dashboards using Excel, Hyperion Essbase, PowerBI, and other business intelligence tools.
• Independently investigate data issues, ask pertinent questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality.
• Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support, and conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights.
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, covering areas such as revenue, new product launches, pricing, operating expenses.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability, data flow, and accuracy.
• Perform special projects and ad-hoc reporting as required by finance and business leadership.
• How You Will Get Here:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• MBA degree preferred.

Experience:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in finance.
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization.
• Proven track record of analytical abilities and experience in presenting analysis to business partners.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Advanced user in Excel. Proficient user in Hyperion, Power BI.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to present analysis concisely and effectively.
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high-quality work. Ability to learn quickly, and multi-task in a fast-paced setting.
• Good understanding of business processes and financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions.
• Self-motivated, eager to learn new concepts, able to work individually and as part of a team.