Quality Senior Financial Analyst – NA Consolidation & Reporting Lead

What You Will Do

This position is responsible for:

• Work closely with FP&A to meet submission requirements for actuals and forecasts, and provide comprehensive variance explanations

• Lead monthly actuals and forecast reporting including management reviews

• Conduct period to period evaluations with full and meaning variance explanations

• Prepare monthly North America SLT / BR reporting for warranty accrual and spend

• Support quarterly briefing book and investor relations activities

• Perform data analysis to identify opportunities to reduce warranty spend

• Validate and reconcile Essbase to PSAP and One Stream for actuals, key forecasts and budget to ensure reporting accuracy

• Load and validate volume and warranty rates used for actuals and forecast in Essbase

• Controller of Warranty Essbase cube data by maintaining hierarchy and administering access for all warranty standard rate data by carline and model year

• Responsible for US Parts Mark Up calculation and analysis

• Maintain SOX related documentation and assist in internal and external audit requests

What You Will Learn

• Forecasting techniques and actual results reporting

• Develop relationships with various groups including FP&A, Quality Operations and Sales & Marketing Finance

• Understanding of Warranty practices and policies

Role Will Prepare You For

• Future opportunities in roles requiring strong budgeting, forecasting, and financial control expertise

Basic Qualifications

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

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Finance or Accounting, or 7 years with a related Master's Degree

• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively at all organizational levels

• Proven ability to project manage a cross functional team through multiple tasks/assignments with relatively short deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships across multiple organizations

• Working knowledge of accounting principles

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting

• Previous experience in corporate consolidations, reporting, FP&A or accounting

• Previous experience with forecasting and the monthly close process