Financial Analyst II

Financial Analyst II
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers its full-time employees a range of benefits including: Work Life balance, clean temperature controlled environment, employee appreciation awards, competitive benefit package with the ability to choose a program that best fits your needs, effective on the first day of employment, 401K with 100% company match on first 6%, quarterly gainshare program, PTO, 9 Paid Holidays, discount program exclusively for Thermo Fisher Scientific employees that gives you access to thousands of items and perks at discounted prices, employee and family activities, strong partnership with our community, and the ability to make a difference in people’s lives.
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Location/Division Specific Information
Middletown, VA
How will you make an impact?
The Middletown site manufactures in vitro diagnostic reagents, controls and calibrators, which are used in conjunction with clinical diagnostic instrumentation.
What will you do?

• Provide financial and analytical support to Middletown by preparing, consolidating, and analyzing various reports for both operations and financial management.
• Responsible for tracking scrap costs including creation of scrap tickets, distributing to responsible authorizing parties, following through to completion, and preparing related reports.
• Research and resolve inventory errors by investigating transaction history in ERP system. Pro-actively notify the Quality Control Department when significant errors are found, and coordinate and inform value stream managers of findings affecting the operations.
• Coordinate with warehouse team to manage cycle count process and monthly inventory accuracy reports.
• Perform finance cycle counts for verification and internal auditing.
• Assist with set-up/maintenance of customer pricing files.
• Participate in month end closing processes, including creation/entry of journal entries, and reconciliations of general ledger accounts
• Responsible for analyzing cost center spending vs budget and investigates variances.
• Participate in creation of AOP plan.
• Assist with cost accounting as needed to establish standard costs of products and review cost impact of changes orders. Also provide analysis of MUV, PPV, and other variances.
• Assist Financial Shared Service Team in solving problems or capturing information in various areas such as cash, accounts payable, fixed assets and intercompany netting reconciliations.
• Participate in practical process improvement (PPI) projects to ensure that financial and SOX controls are met and participate in internal audits.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.

• Minimum of 3 years of accounting or finance experience and cost experience required (manufacturing experience preferred).
• Minimum of 3 years of SAP experience desired.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (i.e. Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).

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