Senior Financial Analyst

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Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams, partnering them 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. As a Fortune 500 company, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader in serving science.
How you will make an impact:

This role will be part of the Southeast Asia Commercial Finance team. Southeast Asia as a growth engine for the company, supports more than 20 divisions and business units across all functions from commercial to manufacturing, R&D and supply chain.

Reporting to SG/MY Commercial Finance Senior Manager and partnering with Singapore General Manager, this business-critical role will provide commercial finance insights for the country and drive sustainable, profitable growth. You will support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives, responsible for delivering on standard FP&A workstreams, annual operating plan, long terms strategic plan, and other ad-hoc projects. You will also be a finance partner in optimizing working capital levels while ensuring overall credit risks and receivables functions are managed appropriately. This role will be based in Singapore.
What you will do:

Commercial Business Partnering

• Provide day-to-day finance leadership for FP&A and business partnership for country’s operating teams to drive business while also optimizing commercial performance.

• Collaborate with commercial business partners, country and regional division finance teams to ensure key deliverables and timelines for business reviews / submissions are met. Build templates to facilitate efficient and effective planning, reconciliation and reviews.

• Understand the business, track and analyse monthly forecasts vs actuals for backlog, bookings and revenue by accounts, market segments or business units, providing quality financial analysis and insights on business drivers.

• Communicate key risks and opportunities, identify corrective actions and partner with commercial business partners to meet/exceed growth targets.

• Participate actively and be the voice of Finance, supporting Sales and collaborating across functions to drive business results. 

• Drive monthly and quarterly business reviews (“MBR”/”QBR”), annual operating plan ("AOP) and long range strategic plan ("STRAP") in a matrixed environment, ensuring financial decisions support company goals while cognizant of prevailing market conditions.

• Support pricing and commercial terms analysis for new and existing businesses.

• Assist in special projects and ad-hoc financial analysis as required. Share best practices.

• Use Hyperion Planning for loading of forecast and planning financial numbers, where applicable.

Control & Risk Management

• Continuously establish, update, improve and implement compliance-related internal control system and SOPs, ensure company’s compliance requirements are carried through the company, employees and external business partners (e.g. distributors, customers, vendors).

• Provide support on compliance-related matters. Monitor behaviour of employees and external business partners against company integrity rules and report findings to leadership.

• Support / handle implementation of compliance programs. Uphold compliance and keep commercial teams aware / in line with company and accounting guidelines, especially in relation to deal structure and transactions with customers.

• Provide support to tax, internal and external audits where applicable in nominal scenarios.

How you will get here:
Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Finance or equivalent.

• At least 4 years of progressive experience in commercial finance or FP&A, and at least 6 years of experience in a large global company.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities with advanced Excel skills.

• Able to work independently, self-motivated, hands-on and meticulous. Good personal efficiency to prioritize or initiate escalation where needed.

• Keen learner with an inquisitive mind, good commercial sense and comfortable handling ambiguity at times.

• Strong verbal and written communication, with good interpersonal skills / ability to influence across divisions and functions.

• Able to work under pressure, in a complex matrix environment.

• Able to handle highly critical information with absolute confidentiality and integrity.

• Applied knowledge of various reporting systems (e.g. Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning), business and AI tools (e.g. SFDC, Power BI, Robotic Process Automation, ChatGPT) would be an advantage.