Financial Analyst II

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Job Description

Finance roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific offer diverse global experiences and career growth.

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

Seeking an Analyst who will play a key role in the RSD Canada finance team to help achieve our near and long-term financial objectives. The range of responsibilities involves all FP&A planning, analysis & reporting to achieve financial goals and implement initiatives to support a growing organization.

• Analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting
• Develop and standardize reports for financial insights, supporting forecasting and budgeting activities.
• Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by datamining 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 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:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in accounting, Finance, Economics, or a Business related field

• 3+ years relevant experience in finance
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization is an asset

• Proficient user of systems (i.e. 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