Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are essential to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop unique career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #95 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of more than $35 billion, you'll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

How you will make an impact:

Material and Structural Analysis Division (MSD) is a capital equipment and services business within the Analytical Instruments Group, which offers Electron Microscopes serving the Semiconductor, Life Sciences, and Materials Science markets. Primary office at Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.

Our Commercial Finance function is responsible for providing oversight and support for our fast-paced, innovative and global sales teams. By leading activities such as strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, pricing and close exercises, while leveraging analytics, forecasting and reporting skills, you will help shape the commercial success of our business areas for senior leaders and the sales teams. You will develop a robust skill set as part of this fast-paced function by interacting with a broad number of internal business partners and building organizational capabilities to drive profitability & customer satisfaction. The work of this team is dynamic with high-visibility and impact to our diverse customers, providing you an exciting opportunity to gain valuable regional and global experiences and professional growth.

Seeking a Senior Financial analyst who will be a key member of the Commercial Finance team to support senior leaders in data analytics, financial reporting and forecasting processes to help shape the commercial success of the business. This role would suit an individual with a passion for data analytics and a real desire to develop and succeed within a fast paced, innovative global FP&A function!

What you will do:
• Lead on elements of forecast including building models - pricing, commercial, DSO, cashflow, capex
• Lead on all elements of commercial reporting including bookings forecast reviews, pipeline reviews, and quarterly business result reviews
• Collaborate with business leadership to share insights and drive improved outcomes, partnering with functional teams as required
• Use visualization tools such as a PowerBI/Tableau to undertake ad-hoc analysis to support management decision
• Utilize large financial datasets to build predictive models and lead on exploratory data analysis for complex business / data and problem solving
• Embrace change and apply a continuous process improvement mindset: consider new ways to analyze business data and results

How you will get here:

Education

Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance field

Experience
• 8+ years of relevant working experience Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Prior experience within commercial FP&A
• Strong financial acuity, including familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
• Data management experience and the ability to manage large sets of data and accurate reports
• Highly analytical and possess a strong business sense
• Organized multitasker: you prioritize your workload, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment,
• Strong team building skills working with a diverse group of people, even if geographically dispersed
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to communicate analysis and recommendations in concise informative manner
• Able to deliver high quality effective presentation to communicate complex topics
• Excellent skills with MS Excel are required; Oracle, HFM/CMR, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) are preferred.
• Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done
• Continuous Improvement: Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through Practical Process Improvement (PPI)
• Exhibit leadership, initiative, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific 4-I values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.

Travel requirements
• Less than 10% domestic/international travel required

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 9,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.