Thermo Fisher Scientific

Financial Analyst

Randburg, South Africaonsite
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Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description We are seeking an experienced Finance professional with strong analytical and communication skills to join our regional finance team as a Financial Analyst and support the Middle East and Africa organization. Key Duties and Responsibilities: • Support Sr. Finance Manager in all FP&A planning, analysis, and reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support our fast growing organization. • Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights and support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting processes. • Build and update dashboards using Excel, Hyperion Essbase, PowerBI, and other business intelligence tools. • Independently investigate data issues, ask pertinent questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality. • Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support, and conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights. • Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, covering areas such as revenue, new product launches, pricing, operating expenses. • Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability, data flow, and accuracy. • Perform special projects and ad-hoc reporting as required by finance and business leadership. How You Will Get Here: Education: • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience. • MBA degree preferred. Experience: • 3+ years of relevant experience in finance. • Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization. • Proven track record of analytical abilities and experience in presenting analysis to business partners. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: • Advanced user in Excel. Proficient user in Hyperion, Power BI. • Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to present analysis concisely and effectively. • Attention to detail and consistently delivering high-quality work. Ability to learn quickly, and multi-task in a fast-paced setting. • Good understanding of business processes and financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions. • Self-motivated, eager to learn new concepts, able to work individually and as part of a team.

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