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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, growing 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 distributed 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. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How you will make an impact:
The FP&A Financial Analyst III plays a crucial role in providing financial business partnering support to our Global Business Services (GBS) leaders. As a member of a global collaborative team, the analyst is accountable for various key responsibilities and tasks.

What you will do:
•    Prepare and coordinate the monthly KPI Reviews for GBS leadership, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of operating results, key performance indicators and project updates.
•    Serve as the owner of GBS project spend and benefit tracking, as well as the project database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for effective decision-making.
•    Lead the monthly close, forecasting, and Annual Operating Plan process for GBS projects, ensuring accuracy and adherence to timelines.
•    Perform entries to distribute project related allocations to divisions, including developing the allocation methodology.
•    Provide decision support analysis to the project team through routine financial updates and as needed ad-hoc analysis of investments and benefits of implementation projects.
•    Conduct business case analysis for cross-functional projects to evaluate project feasibility, enabling effective resource allocation and investment decisions.
•    Lead the GBS CapEx reporting and forecasting process.
•    Support the functional standardization and continuous improvement of existing processes within the organization, promoting efficiency and effectiveness.
•    Take high level direction and work independently to drive execution of department goals.
•    Other ad hoc projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or other relevant background
•    5 years of Financial Management experience 
•    Proficiency in financial analysis and reporting, forecasting, internal controls, and technical accounting knowledge.
•    Strong business acumen as well as the ability to make logical assumptions, identify trends, incorporate external and internal information, and effectively benchmark results against appropriate baselines.
•    The ability to identify and champion productivity improvements.
•    Strong written communication skills, along with clear and concise verbal skills. The ideal candidate will have the ability to obtain operational buy-in with easy-to-understand analysis and presentations with the ability to engage in communication at the executive level.
•    Proven history of working cross functionally as well as the ability to build organizational relationships with customers, peers and operating partners.
•    It is required that the candidate can manage multiple assignments, have independence of judgment, and prioritize projects and time effectively.
•    The ideal candidate will have a commitment to continuous learning, show career progression and development, and seek opportunities to stretch capabilities.

•    Skills with Oracle, HFM, SAP, COGNOS and Power BI.
•    Excellent skills with MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

•    Excellent English proficiency

Preferred Qualifications: 
•    Advanced Qualification (CPA, MBA, or MS)
•    Continuous improvement experience