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 OneStream 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
R*ole 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
