Senior Financial Analyst at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Life SciencesIndustries

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business-related field
  • 5+ years relevant experience in finance
  • Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work
  • Ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines and multi-task in deadline driven environment
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • 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.)
  • Good understanding of business processes and operations & financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses in existing process and recommend mitigation actions
  • Travel requirements <5% domestic/international travel required

Responsibilities

  • Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights, and support monthly/quarterly/annual forecasting and budgeting process (i.e. support MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.)
  • Revenue forecast alignment and pacing analysis drivers
  • Analyze transactional/operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals/reversals to ensure accurate reporting
  • Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by data-mining in various systems
  • Streamline recurring processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance data accuracy
  • 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
  • Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, pricing, operating expense, Headcount etc
  • Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy

Skills

FP&A
Financial Forecasting
Budgeting
Data Analysis
Revenue Forecasting
Financial Modeling
Dashboards
PowerPoint
Business Intelligence
Data Mining

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Provides life sciences products and services

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a variety of products and services that support scientific research and healthcare, including laboratory equipment, reagents, and software solutions. Their products are used in applications like protein biology, real-time PCR, and sequencing, serving clients such as academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Unlike competitors, Thermo Fisher emphasizes customer support and education, helping clients optimize their experiments. The company's goal is to be a leading provider of life sciences solutions that contribute to a healthier and safer world.

Waltham, MassachusettsHeadquarters
1956Year Founded
$17MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Biotechnology, HealthcareIndustries
10,001+Employees

Risks

Increased competition in single-use bioprocessing may impact market share.
Sale of anatomical pathology business could create a temporary product gap.
Investment in miDiagnostics may face regulatory challenges affecting returns.

Differentiation

Thermo Fisher offers a comprehensive range of life sciences products and services.
Their well-known brands include Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, and Invitrogen.
They provide strong customer support and educational resources to optimize client workflows.

Upsides

Expansion of biologics production facility enhances capacity for precision biologics monitoring.
Investment in miDiagnostics aligns with demand for rapid diagnostic solutions in BioPharma.
Collaboration with Mainz Biomed positions them in the growing cancer detection market.

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