Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 125,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us in our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.
Position Summary:
Strategic Business Partner to the Commercial Organization. Set, track and align business strategy, including consolidation, planning, financial review and analysis across Australia and New Zealand to meet the Group’s business needs and objectives.
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organisation, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Key Responsibilities:
- Run standard FP&A work including forecast, monthly and quarterly business review, annual operating plan and long-term strategic plan and monthly expenses
- Work with commercial team to present material proformas / quotes / pricing & other proposals to enhancing profitability.
- Develop and continually improve operating plans, financial projections, and operating forecasting process to improve quality and accuracy of information and analysis. Support commercial leadership to meet divisional finance reporting and analysis requirements.
- Drive and own incentive plans for the Group and co-ordinate the sales incentive/compensation administration process with the Compensation Analyst and develop greater business intelligence
- Prepare and present business performance analysis highlighting customer, market, industry segment trends for product lines and territories. Consolidate trend and variance analysis from the FP&A team and provide insights and modelling to support business decision making.
- Drive practical improvement in execution. Develop of benchmarks and scorecards to be used for continuous improvement.
- Ad-hoc business performance reporting both locally and with the APJ team
Frequent Contacts:
Internal
Commercial Directors, FP&A Leader, Division Leads, VP/GM ANZ, VP, Finance APAC, Senior Leadership Team, ANZ, APAC Regional Divisional Commercial and Finance Leaders
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
Advanced Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Accounting or Finance. CPA or Chartered Accountant preferred
Experience:
- Experience in driving data visualisation system, sophisticated financial modelling and forecasting
- Ability to build and maintain PowerBI reports, (advanced knowledge preferred)
- Understanding and experience in Hyperion Financial Planning Systems and Applications, including HFM, Essbase and PLN
- Initiating and leading change, from a people and process perspective
- Track record in collaborator engagement whilst demonstrating engagement and high-performance standards
- Experience in heavily matrixed environment
- Worked in fast paced environments which require agile and flexible learners for minimum 5 years
- Self-motivated, customer oriented and results minded.
- Must be well organized, be able to prioritise tasks and meet non-negotiable time frames.
- High level of attention to detail and the ability to report financial results accurately and in a timely manner.
- Good commercial sense and comfortable navigating through matrix organization.
- Able to deal with ambiguity.
- Connect with senior management and cross functionally.
- Experience in working with tier 1 ERP systems, Masterpack, SAP and E1 advantageous
- Sophisticated MS Excel and MS Power BI/Tableau skills.
Competencies
- Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organisation moving forward
- Values Differences - Recognising the value that different perspectives bring to an organisation
- Financial Competence - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- Plans and Aligns - Using your abilities to ask questions and make decisions
- Gets Results - Consistently achieving results, even under meaningful circumstances
- Handles Ambiguity - Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward not clear
- Communicates Effectively - Crafting and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Handles Complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems!
Other Job Requirements:
Adhere to EHS policies and procedures and ensure a safe and healthy workplace environment.
Benefits
Join our team and take advantage of these great benefits! Apply now to learn more about the full range of benefits we offer.
- Health & Wellbeing: Join a company that prioritizes your health & wellbeing with comprehensive benefits, wellness programs, and an Employee Assistance Program providing confidential support for personal and work-related issues.
- Flexibility: Balance your work and personal life with flexible arrangements.
- Extra Leave: Benefit from generous leave policies, including the option to purchase additional leave, paid birthday leave, and company paid parental leave.
- Charitable Giving & Volunteering: Make an impact with paid volunteer time to support non-profit organizations that matter to you.
- Learning & Development: Advance your career with access to online courses via Thermo Fisher Scientific University Plus and LinkedIn learning, workshops, and mentorship programs for continuous learning and skill development.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Australia WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and encourages diversity.
