Financial Analyst - Global Services Support (APJ)

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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.
How you will make an impact:
Global Services Support (GSS) is a services component within Life Science Group, (LSG) which offers maintenance & Training support serving the industry.
Seeking an Analyst who will be an integral part of APJ LSG 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:
• 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 fortnightly/ monthly /quarterly /annual forecasting and budgeting process (i.e. support MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.)
• Update & maintain 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
• Analyze the profitability of products and services, identify P&L drivers including manufacturing and SIOP to identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, new product launch, pricing, operating expense, CAPEX etc.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy
How you will get here:
Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of financial planning & analysis experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Proficient user of systems (i.e. SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion planning, 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
Travel requirements
• 0% domestic/international travel required