Financial Analyst III

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Job Description

This position will be an integral part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Large Molecule finance team to support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives within the Supply Chain Organization. The scope of responsibilities includes FP&A planning, analysis & reporting to execute financial goals and initiatives to support a growing organization.

• Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights for the Large Molecule Business by utilizing dashboards and other business intelligence tools.
• Collaborate with the Supply Chain team to support in a multitude of areas such as inventory management, spend analysis, customer reconciliations and other ad-hoc requests.
• Lead in the review and calculation of cost savings initiatives developed by the Procurement team and assist in the tracking of raw material spend.
• Support in the month-end close activities by analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting.
• Independently investigate data issues and/or information given, ask pertinent questions and identify root causes, collaborate with functional business partners.
• 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.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy.

Primary office location at either Waltham, MA or Plainville, MA.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business related field

• 3+ years relevant experience in finance
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization

• 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

• Less than 10% domestic/international travel