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.
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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, OneStream and Essbase experience
- Leadership experience
- Manufacturing, warehouse, or supply chain operations experience preferred
