JOB DESCRIPTION
The role of the Sr. Financial Analyst is to support and develop accurate product costs and to provide the necessary follow up within the organization. Working knowledge of product and process is required as you learn to bring reasonableness to the details. Need to support in the data collection of regional projects and corporate initiatives with the potential of bringing business perspective to the data.
Specific duties include but are not limited to:
- Development of product cost: material usage material cost equipment requirements labor requirements cycle times tooling and capital requirements for new business or changes to current business;
- Review complex bill of materials for reasonableness
- Review manufacturing assumptions for reasonableness
- Develop risk / opportunities summary with each quote
- Communicate / Educate the organization regarding the cost data.
- Rate Development
- Set targets of purchased items.
- Support Purchasing negotiations.
- Support regional and corporate initiatives
- Ability to bridge financial data
- Actively contribute to departmental initiatives/process improvements to enhance the overall departments effectiveness.
- Commitment to use global costing procedures and tools
- Commitment to communicate with a Global team.
Qualifications:
- Four Year College Technical Degree (Finance Business or Engineering desired)
- 5 years of finance engineering or purchasing experience required
- Experience in the Automotive Industry seating a plus.
- Foreign language skills desired.
- Good computer skills i.e. MS Office especially Excel.
- Proven Interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Occasional plant travel
Customers
Customer Groups
Purchasing
Internal Sales
Operations
Product Groups
Engineering
PRIMARY LOCATION
Central Tech Unit Plymouth MI
Required Experience:
Senior IC