Financial Analyst II

Socket.dev; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific in Ontario is seeking an Analyst to support FP&A planning, analysis and reporting to drive financial goals and initiatives for a growing organization.

The role focuses on analyzing data, building dashboards and forecasts, collaborating with business partners, and providing insights to improve profitability and decision support.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or Bachelor's with 2 years of FP&A experience in a large global company.
• Proficient with SAP, Hyperion, Power BI, Cognos, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Strong communication, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transactional and operational data to support accurate reporting and forecasting.
• Develop regular analyses and reports to share insights and support monthly/quarterly/annual planning processes.
• Build and update dashboards and BI reports; investigate data quality and root causes.

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important 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 outstanding 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

RSD Canada is a distribution business within Customer Channel Group, which offers Scientific products serving Canada market.

Seeking an Analyst who will be an integral part of RSD Canada finance team to support the delivery of our near and long-term financial objectives. The scope of responsibilities includes all FP&A planning, analysis & reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support a growing organization.

What you will do

• Analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting
• Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights, and support monthly /quarterly /annual forecasting and budgeting process (i.e. support MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.)
• Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by data-mining in various systems
• Independently investigate data issues and/or information given, ask pertinent questions and identify root causes, collaborate with functional business partners and system support to improve data quality
• Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support, independently conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights and observations
• Analyze the profitability of products and services, identify P&L drivers including manufacturing and SIOP to identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, new product launch, pricing, operating expense, CAPEX etc.
• Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy

How you will get here

Requirements

• Advanced Degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor's -Degree plus 2 years of financial planning & analysis experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proficient user of systems (i.e. SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion planning, Power BI, Cognos, excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to summarize and present information in a concise and effective manner
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high- quality work. Ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines and multi-task in deadline driven environment
• Good understanding of business processes and operations & financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses in existing process and recommend mitigation actions

Travel requirements

• Less than 20% domestic/international travel required

Compensation

The estimated annualized pay range for this position in Ontario is $60,000.00–$77,000.00.