Sr Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- About the role: The first paragraph after location? Actually "At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams partner..." That's description. Could be "About the role". We'll put that as prose.
- Responsibilities: The "How You Will Make An Impact" and "What You Will Do" sections. Those are responsibilities.
- Requirements/Education: "How You Will Get Here" includes Education, Experience, etc. Could be split into Requirements (Education, Experience) and Qualifications/Skills. But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what goes where.
We have:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
Experience: 3+ years of relevant Finance experience, preferably in financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, or business finance.
Strong financial and analytical skills, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
Experience with ERP systems, financial reporting or planning tools, and Microsoft Excel. Experience with SAP, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, or similar platforms is beneficial.
Strong communication and business partnering skills, with ability to translate financial analysis into clear insights and build relationships across functions and geographies.
Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and accountability, with confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and consistently deliver high-quality work.
These could be Requirements (Education, Experience) and Qualifications/Skills (skills). But we can also combine.
We also have "What Will Make You Successful" which is more about traits; could be Qualifications.
Travel Requirements: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required. That's maybe Schedule? Actually schedule is work schedule standard Mon-Fri. Travel is separate but could be under Schedule? The instruction: Use Schedule heading only if posting actually states schedule. It does: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)" and "Environmental Conditions Office". So we have schedule info: Standard Mon-Fri, office environment. So we can include Schedule section with that.
Pay: Compensation And Benefits includes salary range and variable bonus. Also benefits list. So we need Pay section for salary range, maybe also mention variable bonus. Benefits section for benefits.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings
and content.
We must not include markdown fences.
We need to ensure we only include sections with real content.
Let's draft:
About the role
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams partner with the business to understand performance, provide insights, and support decisions that help advance our Mission. Our global organization offers opportunities to build broad business experience and grow a rewarding career with the world leader in serving science. This position will preferably be based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Candidates based in Waltham, Massachusetts may also be considered. The role supports the Asset Management Services business within Instrument and Enterprise Services. Asset Management Services is a global services business, and this position will have primary financial responsibility for supporting the European business, along with responsibilities across the broader global organization. The position offers meaningful exposure to an international business and the opportunity to partner with Commercial, Operations, Accounting, and Finance colleagues across functions and geographies.
That's about role.
Responsibilities
We need to list duties as - . The "How You Will Make An Impact" and "What You Will Do" paragraphs contain many responsibilities. We'll combine them into list items.
Let's extract bullet points:
- Own key financial reporting, forecasting, and performance analysis, with accountability for the accuracy, quality, and timeliness of financial information.
- Analyze performance against forecast, plan, and prior periods to identify business drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner with Commercial and Operations teams to understand revenue, profitability, expenses, business pacing, and other drivers of performance.
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights that help the business understand what happened, why it happened, and what actions are needed next.
- Drive follow-through on financial commitments by highlighting performance gaps, appropriately challenging assumptions, and helping business partners maintain accountability for agreed actions.
- Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, and long-term planning processes, ensuring assumptions are well understood and appropriately supported.
- Partner with Accounting during the monthly close to ensure the integrity of financial results, investigate unusual items, support accruals, and resolve financial reporting issues.
- Build financial models and provide analysis supporting pricing, expenses, headcount, investments, and other business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, forecasting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency and insight.
Also earlier "How You Will Make An Impact" includes: own key financial reporting, forecasting, planning, and performance analysis, with accountability for delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial insights. Develop strong understanding of commercial and operational drivers, identify risks and opportunities, help translate financial performance into actions. Working across Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Accounting, help drive financial discipline and accountability, ensuring performance gaps are understood, actions are followed through, and leaders have insights needed to make sound business decisions. This is an opportunity to own meaningful work, gain global business exposure, and build the financial and business partnering experience for continued career growth.
We can incorporate those as list items as well, but avoid duplication. We'll combine.
Let's produce list items:
- Own key financial reporting, forecasting, planning, and performance analysis, delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial insights.
- Develop a strong understanding of commercial and operational drivers of the business, identify risks and opportunities, and help translate financial performance into actions.
- Partner with Commercial and Operations teams to understand revenue, profitability, expenses, business pacing, and other performance drivers.
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights that help the business understand what happened, why it happened, and what actions are needed next.
- Drive follow-through on financial commitments by highlighting performance gaps, appropriately challenging assumptions, and helping business partners maintain accountability for agreed actions.
- Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, and long-term planning processes, ensuring assumptions are well understood and appropriately supported.
- Partner with Accounting during the monthly close to ensure integrity of financial results, investigate unusual items, support accruals, and resolve financial reporting issues.
- Build financial models and provide analysis supporting pricing, expenses, headcount, investments, and other business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, forecasting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency and insight.
That covers.
Now Requirements: Education and Experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant Finance experience, preferably in financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, or business finance.
Now Qualifications: maybe we can include strong financial and analytical skills, ERP experience, communication skills, curiosity etc. But we already used some in responsibilities. However we can still have Qualifications heading for skills.
Qualifications
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Experience with enterprise resource planning systems, financial reporting or planning tools, and Microsoft Excel; experience with SAP, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, or similar platforms is beneficial.
- Strong communication and business partnering skills, with the ability to translate financial analysis into clear insights and build relationships across functions and geographies.
- Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and accountability, with the confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and consistently deliver high-quality work.
Skills: maybe we could combine but we already have Qualifications. Could also have Skills heading for technical skills like Excel, SAP etc. But we might be duplicating. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We already have About, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications. We could skip Skills and put those under Qualifications. But we need to follow the list of allowed headings; we can omit sections if no content. So we can omit Skills.
Now Benefits: we have benefits list.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- 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, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
We also have mention of variable annual bonus; maybe that goes under Pay.
Pay: salary range and variable bonus.
Pay
The salary range estimated for this position based in Pennsylvania is $93,800.00–$140,675.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.
Schedule: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office.
Schedule
Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri). Environmental Conditions: Office.
We should not include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed.
Now ensure we didn't repeat job title. Not included.
Check for any missing substantive info: Location/Division Specific Information we included in About the role. The "How You Will Make An Impact" we incorporated. The "What You Will Get Here" we split into Requirements and Qualifications. The "What Will Make You Successful" we incorporated into Qualifications (curiosity etc). Travel Requirements: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required. Where to put? Could be under Schedule or maybe a separate section but we have no heading for travel. Could add under Schedule as extra sentence. But schedule heading is for schedule; travel is not schedule. Could add a short paragraph under About the role or Responsibilities? It's not a responsibility. Could add a separate section "Travel" but not in allowed headings. The instruction: Use headings only from the list; we cannot create new headings. So we need to fit travel info somewhere else, maybe under Responsibilities as a bullet? It's not a responsibility but could be a note. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include travel info somewhere. We could add a bullet under Responsibilities: "Travel: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required." But that's not a responsibility; still we can include as a bullet under Responsibilities maybe okay. Or we could add a note under About the role. Let's add a bullet under Responsibilities: "Travel: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required." That preserves info.
Also "Environmental Conditions Office" we already included in Schedule.
Now check if any other info: "Location / Division Specific Information" we covered.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards". That's a link; we should remove as per instruction: remove application instructions and boilerplate. That's a link for more info; it's like a reference; we
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract sections: - About the role: The first paragraph after location? Actually "At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams partner..." That's description. Could be "About the role". We'll put that as prose. - Responsibilities: The "How You Will Make An Impact" and "What You Will Do" sections. Those are responsibilities. - Requirements/Education: "How You Will Get Here" includes Education, Experience, etc. Could be split into Requirements (Education, Experience) and Qualifications/Skills. But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. We have: Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field. Experience: 3+ years of relevant Finance experience, preferably in financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, or business finance. Strong financial and analytical skills, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling. Experience with ERP systems, financial reporting or planning tools, and Microsoft Excel. Experience with SAP, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, or similar platforms is beneficial. Strong communication and business partnering skills, with ability to translate financial analysis into clear insights and build relationships across functions and geographies. Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and accountability, with confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and consistently deliver high-quality work. These could be Requirements (Education, Experience) and Qualifications/Skills (skills). But we can also combine. We also have "What Will Make You Successful" which is more about traits; could be Qualifications. Travel Requirements: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required. That's maybe Schedule? Actually schedule is work schedule standard Mon-Fri. Travel is separate but could be under Schedule? The instruction: Use Schedule heading only if posting actually states schedule. It does: "Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)" and "Environmental Conditions Office". So we have schedule info: Standard Mon-Fri, office environment. So we can include Schedule section with that. Pay: Compensation And Benefits includes salary range and variable bonus. Also benefits list. So we need Pay section for salary range, maybe also mention variable bonus. Benefits section for benefits. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range. Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings
and content.
We must not include markdown fences.
We need to ensure we only include sections with real content.
Let's draft:
About the role
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams partner with the business to understand performance, provide insights, and support decisions that help advance our Mission. Our global organization offers opportunities to build broad business experience and grow a rewarding career with the world leader in serving science. This position will preferably be based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Candidates based in Waltham, Massachusetts may also be considered. The role supports the Asset Management Services business within Instrument and Enterprise Services. Asset Management Services is a global services business, and this position will have primary financial responsibility for supporting the European business, along with responsibilities across the broader global organization. The position offers meaningful exposure to an international business and the opportunity to partner with Commercial, Operations, Accounting, and Finance colleagues across functions and geographies.
That's about role.Responsibilities
We need to list duties as- . The "How You Will Make An Impact" and "What You Will Do" paragraphs contain many responsibilities. We'll combine them into list items.
Let's extract bullet points:
- Own key financial reporting, forecasting, and performance analysis, with accountability for the accuracy, quality, and timeliness of financial information.
- Analyze performance against forecast, plan, and prior periods to identify business drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner with Commercial and Operations teams to understand revenue, profitability, expenses, business pacing, and other drivers of performance.
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights that help the business understand what happened, why it happened, and what actions are needed next.
- Drive follow-through on financial commitments by highlighting performance gaps, appropriately challenging assumptions, and helping business partners maintain accountability for agreed actions.
- Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, and long-term planning processes, ensuring assumptions are well understood and appropriately supported.
- Partner with Accounting during the monthly close to ensure the integrity of financial results, investigate unusual items, support accruals, and resolve financial reporting issues.
- Build financial models and provide analysis supporting pricing, expenses, headcount, investments, and other business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, forecasting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency and insight.
Also earlier "How You Will Make An Impact" includes: own key financial reporting, forecasting, planning, and performance analysis, with accountability for delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial insights. Develop strong understanding of commercial and operational drivers, identify risks and opportunities, help translate financial performance into actions. Working across Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Accounting, help drive financial discipline and accountability, ensuring performance gaps are understood, actions are followed through, and leaders have insights needed to make sound business decisions. This is an opportunity to own meaningful work, gain global business exposure, and build the financial and business partnering experience for continued career growth.
We can incorporate those as list items as well, but avoid duplication. We'll combine.
Let's produce list items:
- Own key financial reporting, forecasting, planning, and performance analysis, delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial insights.
- Develop a strong understanding of commercial and operational drivers of the business, identify risks and opportunities, and help translate financial performance into actions.
- Partner with Commercial and Operations teams to understand revenue, profitability, expenses, business pacing, and other performance drivers.
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights that help the business understand what happened, why it happened, and what actions are needed next.
- Drive follow-through on financial commitments by highlighting performance gaps, appropriately challenging assumptions, and helping business partners maintain accountability for agreed actions.
- Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, and long-term planning processes, ensuring assumptions are well understood and appropriately supported.
- Partner with Accounting during the monthly close to ensure integrity of financial results, investigate unusual items, support accruals, and resolve financial reporting issues.
- Build financial models and provide analysis supporting pricing, expenses, headcount, investments, and other business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, forecasting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency and insight.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant Finance experience, preferably in financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, or business finance.
Qualifications
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Experience with enterprise resource planning systems, financial reporting or planning tools, and Microsoft Excel; experience with SAP, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, or similar platforms is beneficial.
- Strong communication and business partnering skills, with the ability to translate financial analysis into clear insights and build relationships across functions and geographies.
- Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and accountability, with the confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and consistently deliver high-quality work.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- 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, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
Pay
The salary range estimated for this position based in Pennsylvania is $93,800.00–$140,675.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.
Schedule: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office.Schedule
Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri). Environmental Conditions: Office.
We should not include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed. Now ensure we didn't repeat job title. Not included. Check for any missing substantive info: Location/Division Specific Information we included in About the role. The "How You Will Make An Impact" we incorporated. The "What You Will Get Here" we split into Requirements and Qualifications. The "What Will Make You Successful" we incorporated into Qualifications (curiosity etc). Travel Requirements: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required. Where to put? Could be under Schedule or maybe a separate section but we have no heading for travel. Could add under Schedule as extra sentence. But schedule heading is for schedule; travel is not schedule. Could add a short paragraph under About the role or Responsibilities? It's not a responsibility. Could add a separate section "Travel" but not in allowed headings. The instruction: Use headings only from the list; we cannot create new headings. So we need to fit travel info somewhere else, maybe under Responsibilities as a bullet? It's not a responsibility but could be a note. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include travel info somewhere. We could add a bullet under Responsibilities: "Travel: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required." But that's not a responsibility; still we can include as a bullet under Responsibilities maybe okay. Or we could add a note under About the role. Let's add a bullet under Responsibilities: "Travel: Less than 5% domestic and international travel required." That preserves info. Also "Environmental Conditions Office" we already included in Schedule. Now check if any other info: "Location / Division Specific Information" we covered. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards". That's a link; we should remove as per instruction: remove application instructions and boilerplate. That's a link for more info; it's like a reference; we