Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Position Summary:
The Financial Analyst II is responsible for a variety of functions within the Research and Safety Division (RSD) Sales Analytics team such as financial reporting, commercial team support, variance analysis and more. This role would work with a collaborative team of other Analysts to ensure our commercial and finance business partners are supported.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparation of daily, weekly and monthly key metric management reports
- Supervise daily sales activity explaining variances to AOP and anomalies in the data
- Prepare monthly close reporting
- Partner with team members and other areas of Finance to problem solve and address issues within the organization
- Assisting in the forecasting and planning for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and quarterly forecasts
- Calculate and pay customer rebates
- Prepare several different types of standard reports to support our customers and Sales Team
- Maintain customer and sales organization data to ensure accurate reporting
- Problem solve multi-system variances for accuracy
- Support the finance organization with financial reporting surrounding metrics including sales, cost, margin, booking, backorder among others
- Collaborate with other members of the team to share knowledge and help out teammates where needed
- Ensure accuracy, quality and integrity of financial data
- Ad-hoc reporting, as the need arises
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Desired Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in the areas of financial reporting, internal control, forecasting, analysis, and accounting knowledge through professional and/or educational background
- Exhibit initiative and the Thermo Fisher Scientific. 4-I values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement
- Consistent track record of making logical assumptions, identify trends, and analyze and communicate variances to varying levels of management
- Prepare and develop well defined analysis as well as presentations
- History of participating on teams as well as the ability to build organizational relationships both within and outside of their department or function
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and prioritize effectively to ensure deadlines are met
- Support operational improvement actions and teams
- Proven history of successful organizational change
- Dedication to continuous learning, demonstrate a desire to advance and seek opportunities to stretch capabilities
- Experience with MS Access, COGNOS, SQL, Visual Basic, Microsoft Power BI, tabular data models, multi-dimensional data models or similar technical experience are desired
Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business
- Ability to work independently and handle daily, weekly and monthly deliverables
- Strong written communication skills, along with clear and concise verbal communication skills
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and experience with the Microsoft Office suite
- Proven experience with databases, data tools and data analysis
- 1-3 years of meaningful work experience