Finance Analyst – CapEx & Material Cost, Ford Energy

Ford Energy is a newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Fords century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology Ford Energy designs manufactures and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). Ford Energy is uniquely positioned to capture the growing demand for reliable US-built energy storage systems. We are not just building batteries; we are building the infrastructure for the next generation of the American grid.

Why Ford Energy
At Ford Energy you have the backing of an industrial manufacturing powerhouse with the agility of a dedicated energy startup offering industry leading technology. We offer a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses Ford vehicle discounts and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the worlds most iconic brands.

In this position...
Ford Energy will be launching a BESS business in 2027 in Glendale Kentucky. The Financial Analyst will be an integral part of the team to build financial processes and partner with the operating team. We are seeking an impact-driven Financial Analyst to spearhead financial strategy capital allocation and material cost optimization for our manufacturing this pivotal role you will be a financial architect overseeing our plants two largest financial levers: Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and Material Costs. You will actively partner with Engineering Procurement and Plant Leadership to evaluate high-impact capital investments optimize raw material spend and identify margin expansion opportunities. This position offers a unique platform to lead high-visibility financial initiatives challenge operational assumptions and directly shape the strategic direction and modernization of our advanced manufacturing facility. A successful candidate will be one whom acts as a change agent and is able to leverage technology to build a modern cost operating system. This opportunity will be located at the Glendale Kentucky facility. Periodic travel will be required.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Cost Leadership & Financial Modeling

• Budgeting & Target Setting: Provide end-to-end support for operational budgets and forecasts deploying targets directly to operational departments and establishing efficient targets on specific income statement line items.
• Cost Roadmaps & Benchmarking: Develop execute and oversee comprehensive cost-reduction roadmaps alongside operating teams. Complete benchmarking studies and detailed business case analyses to uncover optimal cost-saving opportunities.
• Operational Cost Partnership & Education: Serve as a key financial interface for the operating team to proactively troubleshoot and resolve daily cost challenges while actively training and educating both hourly and salaried team members on the plants Cost Operating System to foster a shared culture of financial awareness and accountability.
• Operational Modernization: Partner with operations and engineering to discover evaluate and implement modern technologies and automated systems.

• Internal Controls & Compliance: Support ongoing accounting and internal control efforts as required ensuring strict financial integrity and adherence to reporting standards.

  CapEx & Capital Investment Analysis

• Capital Project Modeling: Build and maintain dynamic financial models to evaluate capital investments (CapEx) and track commitments and spending against targets and business thresholds.
• Business Case Development: Partner with engineering to draft robust business cases for plant retooling and investment initiatives.

• CapEx Budgeting & Forecasting: maintain the end-to-end CapEx budget and forecast tracking actual spend against project milestones.

  Material Cost BOM & Variance Analysis

• Bill of Materials (BOM) Integrity: Partner with operations and engineering to audit BOM accuracy identify discrepancies and cost opportunities and ensure production costing reflects physical reality.
• Scrap & Waste Optimization: Track scrap rates and material waste translating physical loss into financial impact and partnering with quality teams on cost-reduction roadmaps.
• Procurement & Commodity Tracking: Collaborate with purchasing to model the financial impact of commodity price fluctuations supplier changes and should-cost assessments for raw materials.

• Material Variance Auditing: Analyze and report material variances to operations and plant leadership.

  Operational Partnering & Cost Systems

• Cross-Functional Roadmaps: Develop and oversee material and capital cost-reduction roadmaps alongside the operating and engineering teams to deliver annual targets.
• Cost Operating System: Actively teach the plants Cost Operating System to both hourly and salaried team members specifically focusing on yield scrap and utilization metrics.

• System Transition Support: Validate financial data and adapt material costing and CapEx tracking models to ensure seamless transitions during new business system implementations.

  Key Capabilities:

• Strong command of capital budgeting principles (NPV depreciation cash flow forecasting etc.) and inventory/material costing methods (standard costing and BOM structures).
• Technical Translation: Outstanding communication skills with a proven ability to translate complex financial concepts (like capital depreciation or price variances) into clear actionable business recommendations for engineers procurement teams and plant managers.
• Influential Presenter: Strong presentation skills with the confidence to pitch large-scale CapEx business cases ROI assessments and cost-benefit analyses to plant leadership and corporate stakeholders. Proficiency with PowerPoint is required.
• Collaborative Educator: A natural team player with a proactive on-the-floor attitude willing to spend time with operators and engineers to understand the physical processes driving material waste and equipment downtime.
• Adaptable Self-Starter: Exceptional organizational and project management skills; ability to independently manage concurrent CapEx and material projects in a fast-paced environment.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Engineering or Business Administration
• 3 years of progressive experience in corporate finance FP&A or cost analysis with a strong preference for experience focusing on capital budgeting or material costing in a manufacturing environment.
• 1 year of experience with modern analytical and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI) or scripting languages (e.g. Python SQL PowerApps) to automate repetitive reporting and build interactive dashboards.
• ERP Systems: Hands-on experience navigating and extracting data from major ERP systems (e.g. SAP) to track CapEx OpEx purchase orders and inventory.
• Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling: Expert-level Excel proficiency (e.g. advanced formulas Pivot Tables Power Query etc.) with a demonstrated ability to manipulate clean and model large datasets (10000 rows) related to material transactions and capital assets.

Even better you may have...

• MBA or Masters degree in Finance/Accounting
• 5 years of progressive experience in corporate finance FP&A or cost analysis with a strong preference for experience focusing on capital budgeting or material costing in a manufacturing environment.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86600-$144900.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Company: As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.

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