Operations Finance Analyst

$55,000 - $65,000/Yr

Life Technologies - Wilmington, NC

Full-time - Entry Level

Wilmington, NC

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Operations Finance Analyst position at Thermo Fisher Scientific is a home-based role within the Global Finance division, focused on achieving financial and business objectives through accurate reporting of revenue and costs for clinical trial projects. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with operations, contracts, proposals, and finance throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring effective financial management and analysis of clinical trial projects.

Responsibilities

• Administers the daily financial management of projects consisting of single service contracts and/or tactical accounts.
• Identifies issues related to contract modifications, contract values, and contract deliverables.
• Performs analysis of budget to actual data on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases and for revenue calculations and forecasting.
• Analyzes cost assignments, ensuring that all assigned projects adhere to accepted cost accounting standards.
• Performs regular profitability and cash flow analysis on assigned projects.
• Performs reconciliations of costs and revenues recognized for assigned projects.
• Tracks and maintains project information and budgets within the project accounting system.
• Coordinates with support staff to ensure sponsors are invoiced in a timely and accurate manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
• Previous finance experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0-2 years' experience).
• Ability to function as an effective and respected partner to internal clients.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new systems and processes.
• Confidence to handle sensitive information and make sound recommendations.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks while still delivering high quality results.
• Good analytical and quantitative skills and ability to handle data effectively.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project administration skills.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience with SharePoint / VBA / SQL / Power BI / RPA (comparable to 1+ years).
• Professional accounting qualification - ACCA / CPA / CIMA or equivalent.

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan.
• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits.
• Employee assistance program.
• 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, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer time off in accordance with company policy.
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.