Financial Analyst II

Financial Analyst II role supporting FP&A planning and profitability analysis within Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Research & Safety Division (RSD) Divisional Finance team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transactional and operational data; detect anomalies and recommend accruals or reversals to support accurate financial reporting
• Design, standardize, and continuously improve recurring analyses and reporting to communicate business and financial insights
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting activities, including MBR, QBR, and AOP processes
• Build and maintain dashboards, PowerPoint materials, and other business intelligence tools using data-mining across systems
• Independently investigate data issues or provided information; ask focused questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with functional partners and system support to improve data quality
• Partner with business stakeholders to develop key assumptions and drivers for decision support; conduct ad hoc data analysis to surface insights and observations
• Evaluate product and service profitability; identify P&L drivers including manufacturing and SIOP to recognize risks and opportunities and drive actions
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions; create and maintain forecast models projecting trends and results across revenue, new product launch, pricing, operating expense, and CAPEX
• Stay current with new systems and analytics tools to strengthen reporting accuracy and analytical capability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 0-3 years of financial planning and analysis experience in a large global company within a highly matrixed organization
• Strong working knowledge of finance and analytics systems, including SAP, Hyperion (and Hyperion Planning), Power BI, Cognos, plus Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to summarize and present information clearly
• High attention to detail; ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines, and manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Knowledge of business processes and financial controls; ability to recognize potential control weaknesses and recommend mitigation steps

Technologies

• SAP
• Hyperion
• Hyperion planning
• Power BI
• Cognos
• Excel
• PowerPoint

Work Schedule

• Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

• Office

Travel Requirements

• 0-10% domestic/international travel required