Mopar Supply Chain Finance Analyst

What You'll Do This position is responsible for:

• Analyze monthly and year-to-date burden performance across supply chain cost categories, including packaging, labor, tooling and off-standard operating costs.

• Prepare variance explanations for actual versus forecast, budget, and prior year, identifying key operational and financial drivers.

• Support month-end and forecast processes through journal entries, checklist completion, and coordination with approvers.

• Track and explain supplier chargebacks, packaging expenses, warranty-related cross charges, and extraordinary supply chain costs.

• Partner with business teams to validate assumptions related to burden standards, packaging cost treatment, supply chain cost recovery, and other-related spend.

• Develop and maintain recurring reporting files, presentations, and close-review materials for management and business review meetings.

• Investigate cost trends by material, supplier, activity, or location to identify risks, opportunities, and root causes.

• Support process improvements through documentation, automation opportunities, and enhanced reporting tools using Excel, SAP, Access, and AI-enabled workflows.

• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve invoicing issues, confirm accounting treatment, and ensure expenses are recorded accurately and on time.

• Provide financial support for special projects involving campaign packaging, burden methodology, transportation cost recovery, and supply chain process changes.

• Driving the technical pillars and warehouse operations in the proper identification of waste and losses, corresponding root cause analysis and creation of hard savings projects.

• Act as the primary owner of the North America / Canada Warehousing general ledger, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls.

• Lead the Supply Chain Burden & Warehousing team, ensuring effective financial controlling and delivery of cost-saving initiatives aligned with forecast targets.

What You'll Learn

• How to lead and manage a team in a challenging environment.

• Analyst is responsible for analyzing, forecasting, and explaining supply chain burden and related operating costs across Mopar North America.

• Gain hands-on experience with the full financial planning cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, and business planning

• Build a comprehensive understanding of Mopar operations, including parts distribution, sales, and service functions

• Enhance analytical and decision-support capabilities by partnering with operations to evaluate performance, identify cost-saving opportunities, and support process improvements.

• How to manage competing priorities and deadlines while supporting both routine reporting and ad hoc analytical requests

What This Role Will Prepare You For

• Increased ownership of financial areas or cost centers, including independent management of complex ledgers and reporting for larger business scopes.

• Broader business-partnering roles supporting Supply Chain or Operations leadership through advanced financial analysis and decision support.

• Early people‑lead or project‑lead responsibilities, managing cross‑functional initiatives.

• Future entry into Finance leadership or operations‑focused management roles that require strong analytical skills, systems expertise, and a deep understanding of operational drivers.

• Roles that require the ability to work effectively across departments and countries with all levels of stakeholders.

• Roles that require managing multiple projects.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance or Accounting, or related degree

• Minimum 5 years of finance/accounting experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Manufacturing and Cost deployment methodologies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and large-data analysis

• Interest in process automation and continuous improvement using tools such as Copilot, Power Automate, or similar technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree, MBA/CPA preferred

• SAP, One Stream and Essbase experience

• Leadership experience

• Manufacturing, warehouse, or supply chain operations experience preferred