Quality Senior Financial Analyst – NA Consolidation & Reporting Lead

What You Will Do

• 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 /   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

• 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

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

• 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 Power Point
• 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

• 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