Associate Director, FP&A

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Associate Director, FP&A is responsible for leading aspects of finance analytics. Key responsibilities include driving the financial performance of the business by providing financial insights, analysis, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making. This role will involve collaborating closely with various departments, to ensure alignment with financial goals and objectives. Additionally, the role will leverage data analytics to improve financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead analytical aspects of divisional financial processes. Analyze financial data and provide insights to senior management regarding business trends, financial performance, and potential areas for improvement
• Establish efficient and effective strategies that drive quality and accuracy.
• Deliver useful business insights through sophisticated analytics and data visualization capabilities
• Drive effective prioritization to deliver on critical growth strategies, process automation; enable proactive analytics and strategic commercial discussions
• Act as a trusted business partner to leaders and build an environment to both challenge and support them with sound financial guidance and strategic insights; suggest corrective actions
• Develop and maintain financial models for revenue forecasting and proactive actionable analytics to drive the business
• Prepare and present monthly reviews and QBR’s; supporting leadership in identifying actions to improve the business
• Drive the AOP & STRAP planning process in collaboration with the leaders, and Operations teams
• Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret large datasets to inform decision-making
• Complete special projects as requested

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field (MBA preferred)
• Previous FP&A finance experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 10+ years’ experience) 
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven track record delivering exceptional results through an impactful team and getting results beyond the finance function
• Outstanding leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Strong systems and data analytic capabilities including Oracle, Power BI /Tableau, SQL, SFDC
• Must possess a strong set of personal and business values that align with those of the 4is (Integrity, Innovation, Involvement, Intensity)

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we are committed to fostering a healthy and harmonious workplace for our employees. We understand the importance of creating an environment that allows individuals to excel. Please see below for the required qualifications for this position, which also includes the possibility of equivalent experience:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours. 
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities. 
• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).