Lead Financial Analyst - Systems & Data Governance

JOB DESCRIPTION

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

This role, within the Specialty Diagnostics Group supporting multiple divisions with global impact, leads data governance, financial systems, and reporting processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of financial data across the organization. Partnering with Business Units, FP&A, and Systems teams, it drives standardization of data hierarchies, metadata, and processes across ERP and enterprise platforms while supporting planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles. The position oversees system reconciliations, embeds governance into financial processes, and advances data strategies focused on centralization, automation, and visualization. It also leads a team of finance systems professionals, promoting data stewardship, user adoption, and continuous improvement, while serving as a key liaison between business and technical teams to deliver scalable solutions.

What you will do:

• Drive implementation and standardization of tools, processes, and reporting solutions that facilitate key business insights across the groups through collaborative partnerships with Commercial, Business Unit, Divisional and Corporate FP&A teams.
• Partner with Divisions, Group Functions and Corporate Systems team to deliver on the Group strategic roadmap by developing and implementing new functionality and Data governance of hierarchy and metadata across ERP and Systems
• Own and improve systems process to ensure the accuracy of revenue, COGS, OCOGS, OPEX and MCF across actuals, forecast and AOP
• Embed in the forecast, AOP, margin move and restatement processes to provide support and ensure that financial system data and functionality are aligned with business needs
• Lead General Ledger Analytics (GLA) integrations through complete SDLC.
• Lead the monthly close reconciliation process between all systems (ERP, EDW, CDW, SPoT, CMR, HFM, and Planning)
• Manage and develop a team of high-performance systems and FP&A experts that provide support for the finance user community in all facets of the planning and reporting environments.
• Drive process improvements (PPI) across the organization (both internally amongst the systems team as well as externally with the user community)
• Support end-user requests and resolve user’s issues during the close process
• Champion user competency and adoption of new tools and techniques to ensure that solutions are consistently implemented into all levels of the finance organization through training, onboarding and user engagement.
• Investigate, analyze and partner with Corporate and LSG systems to solve technical issues.
• Support and advocate for the overall data strategy of centralization, consistency, automation and visualization.

How will you get here:

Education

• Bachelors’ degree in Accounting, Finance or related field with experience in financial systems, computing, and/or data sciences preferred.
• Equivalent years of professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Experience

• 5+ years in Finance, Accounting, or IT at a large company.

​Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience with E1, SAP, Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Cognos, or similar systems with an emphasis on acting as a super user in those applications
• Knowledge of General ledger Analytics (GLA) highly desirable
• Deep understanding of the budgeting/forecasting process and associated key performance indicators
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements while working as a liaison between business and technical teams
• Organized, meticulous, self-starter with a strong sense of ownership
• Excellent interpersonal skills; effective verbal & written communication.
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining the accuracy of information
• Customer-centric, focused on providing proactive systems solutions to drive business performance
• Ability to effectively communicate and interface with senior management
• Experience with Python or other coding languages considered a plus

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $130,000.00–$194,950.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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