Finance Business Partner (Fixed term contract)

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.; Paisley; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global science company based in Scotland seeks a Finance Business Partner for a fixed-term contract to April 2027. This role involves supporting site leadership through forecasting, reporting, and business analytics. Ideal candidates will have strong financial modeling and analytical skills, and be a qualified accountant. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a global environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA preferred).
• Business finance or other meaningful experience.
• Strong financial and business modelling experience.
• Strong analytical and data-gathering skills.
• Comfortable interacting with executive-level management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with SLT team and support forecasting and reporting.
• Report operational metrics for decision making.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly business results.
• Perform variance analysis and make recommendations.
• Support Annual Operating Planning process.

Skills

Financial modelling

Analytical skills

Data gathering

Communication with executives

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA preferred)

Business finance experience

Tools

Oracle Cloud

PowerBi

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Position Summary

(FIXED TERM CONTRACT TO APRIL 2027)

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. Join us and develop your career with a global organisation which can offer outstanding career development and training resources! The Finance Business Partner will partner with site leadership financial and business support focusing on forecasting, reporting, business analytics and decision support!

Responsibilities

• Partner the SLT team, supporting them and providing them with data for their monthly business reviews and forecasting; including submitting and verifying forecasts to our planning tool
• Report operational metrics to support SLT with decision making as well as report weekly and monthly KPIs to EMEA FP&A team.
• Run weekly revenue review process with Horsham site for Clinical and Commercial product lines & report to Division
• Analyze monthly and quarterly business results and support regional submissions and reviews, both for financials and headcount.
• Perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Support the Annual Operating Planning process as well regular Divisional business reviews.
• Collaborating with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting, including supporting in some month end journal calculations.
• Support the Capital Projects team and the CAPEX financial analyst in successfully delivering the projects planned for the year.
• Identify areas of improvement and drive efficiencies by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools including working alongside the EMEA team.
• Co-ordinate and support ad hoc projects and requests for data or analysis as the need arises.
• Engage and collaborate with EMEA FP&A team to drive harmonisation within the region
• Undertake ad hoc duties as directed and agreed with the Sr Finance Business Partner, Horsham.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements/Qualifications: Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA preferred).
• Business finance or other meaningful experience.
• Strong financial and business modelling experience.
• Strong analytical and data-gathering skills.
• Comfortable interacting with executive-level management.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience working in Pharmaceutical industry preferable
• Experience using Oracle Cloud and Planning tool
• Experience using PowerBi