Sr. Financial Analyst - GPS

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

As a member of the Laboratory Equipment Division (LED) Finance team, the Sr. Financial Analyst will play a key role partnering with the Growth, Protection and Separation (GPS) business to drive profitable growth. The scope of responsibilities includes: cross-functional collaboration to establish and achieve quarterly and annual performance targets, building and communicating financial models/scorecards/reports, and providing impactful insights that support our leaders on strategic business decisions.

• Support/lead reviews of weekly, monthly, and quarterly results with GPS business team leaders, providing insights on financial performance and forecast recommendations.
• Collaborate with sites, regional, and divisional finance teams to understand and explain P&L results
• Execute monthly financial close activities, ensuring integrity and accuracy of transactions, while providing meaningful analysis of variance drivers
• Develop and implement financial reporting mechanisms for both individual and consolidated segments, including full P&L reporting, price/margin analytics, and forecasting to help drive margin expansion.
• Support monthly forecasting and SIOP process, collaborate closely with business functions (Product Management, Commercial, Supply Chain) to help develop forecasts, provide data and analysis, and challenge inputs.
• Support Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Strategic Plan (STRAP) activities, working across business functions (R&D, regional Commercial teams, and Operations) to drive alignment on financial targets.
• Support scenario analysis for strategic investments and initiatives, including new product development, capital, headcount, etc.
• Develop dashboards and critical metric tools to analyze results, supporting decision-making and tracking against investment return commitments.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools (including AI) to improve analytics capability and accuracy

Primary office is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Education

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

Experience

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

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Working knowledge of GAAP and ability to perform financial statement analysis
• Proficient user of systems (i.e. CMR, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, Salesforce, 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