Graduate Finance Analyst

Job Title: Graduate Finance Analyst
Requisition ID: 129130BR

When you're part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do challenging work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of more than $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are looking for 2 Graduate level finance analysts to join the team. The positions are responsible for working with the Commercial and Finance teams to deliver value adding analysis to drive revenue and margin. The positions will have the key responsibility to ensure accuracy of costs, customer incentive and reward programs and delivering insightful dashboards and analytics. They will provide financial models to assess new business opportunities and work with commercial leaders during the annual price renewal process.

What will you do?

• Supporting the lead Commercial Finance Analysts with accurate and commercially focused reporting on sales performance, margins, forecasting and product profitability.
• Diligently manage the accuracy of Product Costs and Inventory balances. Ensure all changes to costs are analyzed and understood, and updates are performed in a timely manner where necessary.
• Ensure all customer incentives (rebates and signing bonuses) are accurately recorded, forecasted and paid in accordance with customer contracts.
• Support the annual price renewal process, to ensure the business maximizes price performance whilst complying with customer contracts. Able to work with appropriate internal departments to implement pricing and financial terms for customer contracts.
• Production of customer facing reports to monitor contractual obligations such as savings commitments and incentives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

How will you get here?
Education:

• A Degree or equivalent qualification in Accountancy or a related commercially or numerically focused discipline.

Experience:

• Ability to follow departmental procedures relating to financial modeling and analysis. The individual must be able to work as both part of a team, across functions and on their own initiative, be flexible and to review current practices with the target of improving the department to achieve modern best practices.
• Strong analytical approach; able to interrogate data and possess an enquiring mind.
• Maintain effective communication both internally and externally.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.

Soft skills:

• Attention to detail.
• Enthusiastically and proactively contributes ideas.
• Highly analytical and demonstrates a passion for interrogating detailed data to understand business results.
• To work effectively with others at all levels to accomplish internal targets and business goals.
• The ability to identify and resolve problems.
• Competent with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Someone who contributes ideas, disagrees tactfully, shares success and actively listens.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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