Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 65,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique operating companies within three platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next.

You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

The Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis will be responsible for developing a framework to gain better visibility into enterprise-wide spend. The candidate will work closely with our Opco IT and finance teams to integrate live data sources from all Opcos to enable enhanced functional drill-down capabilities, trending information, spending benchmarks and visibility into Opco spend patterns.

This position is part of the Corporate Financial, Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team and will be located in Washington DC.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate closely with Operating Companies (Opco) IT and Finance teams to understand the underlying business logic of the data sources (Attend 3-4 day in person workshops at our Opco sites)
• Review the Opco ERP and consolidation systems and map the ERP data in a logical format to enable drill-down capabilities of Opco spend (e.g. by department, vendor, description, etc.)
• Development of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools (including LLMs) to analyze and transform large and complex financial data sets. Hands-on training will be provided
• Work closely with the G&A functional leaders on business requirements to build a consistent ontology framework / reporting structure for each function in collaboration with IT teams
• Manage reports and lead ad hoc projects including data collection for SEC reporting requirements, inventory optimization across Danaher, 360 degree customer view, etc.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance or Accounting with CPA preferred
• Minimum of 5 years in areas of increasing responsibility in a finance function
• Proficient in reporting and dashboarding tools and techniques
• Excellent executive presence, communication and relationship building skills
• Multi-tasking capabilities; professionally handles the pressure of meeting multiple, high-priority deadlines

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Prior experience and proficiency with tools BI and Analytics tools like Palantir, SQL and Power BI will be an asset
• Will be a self-starter and proven team player capable of prioritizing his or her own work and/or problems simultaneously
• Must be comfortable working in a high-energy, quickly changing and demanding environment

The salary range for this role is $110,000-$120,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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