Operations Finance Analyst

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Job Title: Operations Finance Analyst

Location: Middletown, Virginia (on-site)

Division/Business Unit: Specialty Diagnostic Group -> Clinical Diagnostic Division -> Clinical Diagnostic Reagents

How You Will Make an Impact:

As a key member of the Operation Finance team, you will partner closely with cross- functional teams to drive financial performance, operational efficiency, and strategic decision making. You will deliver clear financial insights that guide actions in production, supply chain, and continuous improvement, while ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

This role is ideal for a highly analytical, business-minded finance professional who enjoys a fast-paced environment and wants to make a measurable impact on manufacturing performance and profitability.

What You Will Do:

• Lead monthly close activities and ensure accuracy of P&L and balance sheet results, including supplemental loads and Blackline reconciliations.
• Upload and ensure alignment of financial forecasts across CMR and PLN.
• Analyze spending and explain key variances versus AOP and forecast.
• Prepare headcount, labor utilization, and overtime reporting.
• Track CAPEX spending and coordinate fixed asset counts.
• Support site-level forecasts, AOP development, and business reviews with clear variance analysis.
• Provide weekly spend reporting by GL compared to targets.
• Validate PPI savings (including labor efficiency) and Sourcing savings.
• Prepare variable expense analyses comparing actuals to targeted percentages of revenue.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and automation within reporting and analytical processes.
• Lead reconciliation efforts across various financial systems and ensure strong data governance at the site.
• Maintain strong internal controls and compliance with SOX, Corporate policies, and statutory requirements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, cost-reduction efforts, and other ad-hoc/special projects.

How you will get here:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance.

Experience

• 4+ years of relevant finance experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Prior experience in FP&A or Controlling
• Strong analytical and data-gathering skills with high attention to detail and consistent delivery of high-quality work
• Ability to handle multiple priorities
• Advanced Excel skills required; experience with Essbase, HFM, SAP are preferred
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong team building skills and ability to work with diverse and geographically dispersed teams.
• Self-motivated, with a higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic to get the job done
• Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through PPi.
• Exhibit leadership, initiative, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific 4i values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.

Travel requirements

• Less than 5% domestic/international travel

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

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