Financial Analyst, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

About the Role

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions, build and lead an agile team to deliver advanced technology, create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others. You will be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Support all accounting-related activities including month, quarter, and year-end close processes in accordance with GAAP.
• Support monthly accruals and reconciliation.
• Support variance explanations vs. actual.
• Support reporting requirements, including running ad hoc reports from S4 Hana Public Cloud.
• Support forecast, budget, and business plan.
• Lead on monthly forecast collection and submission, collaborating with the corporate finance team for report consolidation.
• Lead on variance analysis vs prior year, prior quarter, and prior forecast.
• Partner with the operation team to ensure forecast accuracy.
• Monitor key cost drivers and identify financial risks and opportunities.
• Support cost analysis and business partnering.
• Analyze supplier cost changes and evaluate financial impact.
• Support implementation cost tracking.
• Support program milestone financials.
• Support cross-functional communications.
• Support financial input for all program reviews and reporting.
• Ensure program financial assumptions are accurately reflected within monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and business plans.
• Track and analyze program financial performance against approved business case or program budget.
• Support ad hoc finance analysis.
• Facilitate the use of advanced financial tools and utilize effective analysis of large data sets to enable improved delivery of responsibilities.
• Candidates must possess full flexibility and readiness to consistently work across all established standard, operating, and rotational shift schedules, encompassing day, night, weekend, and holiday shifts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards coupled with an internal control mindset.
• Proficiency with financial and accounting software, ERP systems, and MS Office.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities to assess complex business processes with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work with large data sets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, CFA, or CMA.
• Manufacturing Experience.
• Preferable advanced Excel skills along with knowledge of other analytical tools (e.g., Alteryx, Power BI).
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.

Salary Range

• Salary grade 7: $86,600 - $144,900.
• Salary grade 8: $99,100 - $166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value.