Associate Financial Analyst

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our colleagues in corporate strive for excellence in every task, at every moment. We are game changers seeking improvements to processes and more efficient ways of working or adapting to changing financial and industry environments.

Currently we have an exciting career opportunity in our Time & Material team – part of the Operations Finance Department in Sofia as an Associate Finance Analyst. The team is responsible for financial project management of short-duration and smaller scope consulting contracts where revenue recognition and billing happens on incurred hours basis.)

Associate Finance Analyst

As an Associate Finance Analyst, you will be assisting with the preparation of accurate and timely project financial analysis and reporting in support of financial and business objectives.

In addition, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of single service or single region projects and performing various activities as listed below:

• Initiating contract startup tasks: overview of the contract and the contractual obligations and data set-up in all appropriate systems
• Managing daily contract deliverables and compliance tracking
• Daily communications with cross-functional teams within the organization
• Monthly billing activities for assigned portfolio
• Monitoring and identifying issues related to contract modifications, contract values, and contract deliverables
• Performing analysis of actual costs and revenue on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases
• Quarterly unbilled reconciliations, close out of studies

Keys to Success:

• Previous finance-related experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 2 years) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.
• Previous billing experience would be considered as an advantage
• Bachelor degree in Finance/ Accounting or similar would be an advantage
• Understanding of general Financial concepts in the area of accounting, billing and/or financial management
• Good organizational and time management skills, plus high attention to details
• Good written and oral communications skills
• Ability to work with large set of financial data
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs with an emphasis on Excel skills

What we offer:

At PPD clinical research services we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD clinical research services you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD clinical research services truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organization but with a local feel.