Financial Analyst

Description

• Coordinate and support the development and preparation of the annual strategic plan, annual operating plan (including annual budget, monthly/quarterly forecasts), and monthly results analysis.
• Perform forecasting and analysis of SG&A spending on a monthly basis, provide SG&A spending progress reports to partners to help handle spending within the budget.
• Prepare for APJ and Country forecast meetings by validating and updating information in the templates
• Work with the accounting and APJ finance team to ensure close timelines and reporting requirements are met.
• Provide pricing and margin scenarios for bidding on big deals and public purchase cases to generate revenue, working with the Commercial team to ensure timely execution.
• Handle data uploads into the planning system, build cost centers, and connect with the Corporate EDM team for system maintenance.
• Retrieve, consolidate, analyze, and summarize data from large data sets using SQL.
• Perform special projects and ad-hoc financial reporting as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or relative fields (accounting, finance, data science, engineering, mathematics, statistics)
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Financial Analyst or related position
• Interested in business and commercial fields and agile to environment changes
• Excellent analytical capabilities including BI tool, SQL, Excel and relational database skills
• Analytical thinking and the ability to simplify and coordinate sophisticated problems.
• Detailed understanding of and experience with accounting and financial reporting
• Teamwork skills – Able to effectively collaborate with peers in other functions and with colleagues in other businesses or divisions
• Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:
• The successful candidate is forward-thinking, highly ethical, and thrives in a collaborative environment
• They have excellent, open, and proactive communication capabilities, identifying and addressing issues via an open, candid dialog
• Excellent communication and social skills
• Positive & Growth mind set; Can do attitude, Self-motivative.
• Embodies the Thermo Fisher Scientific vales of Integrity, Intensity, Involvement and Innovation