Financial Analyst

About

For our partner located in the canton of Bern, GI Life Sciences is looking for a:

Financial Analyst

Temporary position

Start: ASAP

Duration: 2 months

Your mission:

As part of a temporary reinforcement, you will provide operational support to the Finance team to ensure data reliability, high‑quality reporting, and efficient financial analysis processes.

Your responsibilities:

• Analyze transactional and operational data, identify anomalies, and recommend necessary adjustments (accruals, reversals) to ensure accurate reporting.
• Develop, standardize, and improve recurring analyses and reports to deliver financial and business insights and support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting processes (MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.).
• Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint presentations, and other business intelligence tools by extracting and consolidating data from various systems.
• Independently investigate data issues, ask the right questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with business and IT teams to improve data quality.
• Work with business partners to define key assumptions and perform ad hoc analyses to identify trends and opportunities.
• Analyze product and service profitability, identify P&L drivers (including manufacturing and SIOP), detect risks and opportunities, and propose actions.
• Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecasting models (revenue, product launches, pricing, OPEX, CAPEX, etc.).
• Quickly adopt new tools and systems to enhance analytical accuracy and efficiency.
• Contribute to accounting operations, financial reporting, and the maintenance of strong internal controls.

Your profile:

• Master’s degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis within an international company.
• Excellent command of financial and analytical tools: SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize and clearly present complex information.
• High attention to detail, strong rigor, and ability to deliver high‑quality work under tight deadlines.
• Fluent in English.