Operations Finance Analyst

Microbiology, a division of Specialty Diagnostic Group, excels in rapid disease identification, food safety, and enhancing pharmaceutical manufacturing efficiency. With 150 years of experience, we provide high-performance microbiology products for effective disease and pathogen treatment. Our global network ensures access to essential technologies and materials. Our Operations Finance team supports strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and pricing for our innovative global operations. This role offers dynamic, high-visibility work, fostering professional growth and regional and global experience. We seek a Financial Analyst passionate about data analytics to support financial reporting and forecasting, driving business success in our fast-paced FP&A function. What you will do:

• Business partnering to operations management
• Support leading and handling closing activities and help ensuring accurate reporting in the monthly closing process.
• Reviewing monthly spending details and identify the key factors driving variances to AOP and Forecast to support Operational teams
• Support preparing annual operating plan and monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Investment analysis and reporting
• Provide analytical and management reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization of reporting and analytical processes to drive productivity and efficiency.
  
  Bachelor's degree in a Finance/ Business field, part qualified CIMA/ ACCA or AAT
Experience
• 2 years of relevant working experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Prior experience within a business partnering capacity
• Strong analytical and data gathering skills.
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and tight time demands
• Excellent skills with Microsoft suite incl. MS Excel are required; SAP, HFM/CMR, PowerBI are preferred
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Maintain and improve Headcount Analytics.
• Strong team building skills and the shown ability to work with a diverse group of people even if geographically dispersed
• Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done
• Continuous Improvement approach: 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
• Upto 10-20% domestic travel required
  
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.