R&D Finance Analyst

What you'll do:

This individual is a part of a team responsible for ER&D financial results, including Vehicle Engineering, Powertrain Engineering, Product Design Office, and Technology Office. This individual participates in the monthly close activities including accrual schedule process for all cost types, preparing journal entries, reconciliations, capitalization summaries, and systemic data pulls; in addition to creating informative analyses and presentations for use by the department, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), and upper management in both Operations and Finance. Ongoing cost controllership over labor and direct/indirect costs is also a key responsibility. This role interacts closely with the Engineering Operations as a direct business partner, as well as the FP&A team in Finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordination, communication, and reporting of the annual budget, periodic forecasts, monthly actuals, and business planning.
• Consolidating and reporting ER&D, along with completing variance analyses.
• Ensure Forecast and analyses are in coordination with Operations.
• SAP WBS Code Project Management/Support Intangible Capitalization decisions
• Create/Enhance detailed process documentation for all aspects of role and identify opportunities for improvement / workload reduction
• Develop and execute new processes and contribute to automating workload systems to reduce timing
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Program Financial Management.
• Ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements and support the testing with internal and external auditors
• Structure, engage and conduce key RD Controlling projects
• Optimize RD Controlling effectiveness of financial closing process;

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, preferrable in accounting, business or finance.

Minimum of 7 years of Finance / Controlling or Accounting experience, with the ability to forecast, and report actuals through the monthly close process, financial and managerial view, global consolidation.

Controllership, accounting, RD CAPEX controlling as well as Automotive industry experience is a differential.

Comprehensive knowledge of SAP, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.

Comprehensive knowledge and experience in Consolidation and Accounting reporting systems (i.e. Niagara HFM/OneStream)

Excellent communication skills; ability to interact with / present to executive management and present a point-of-view with facts

Strong attention to detail, ability to question items, investigate /analyze independently, propose solutions to management, and manage multiple priorities / work-streams

Foster a collaborative and results-oriented work environment.