Financial Analyst

Job Title: Financial Analyst
This role is currently hybrid, requiring 3 days(Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in-office per week.

Job Summary:
The Process Validation and Improvement (PVI) Audit team is a highly specialized group that plays a lead role in supplier over payment root cause analysis, and end to end process improvements to mitigate risk for GM Global Purchasing contracts. PVI is responsible to proactively identify supplier over payment situations, collaborate with Global Purchasing and Supply Chain to recover the over payment, and ensure that contracts are updated to reflect accurate contract pricing.

Work requires collaboration with purchasing, finance, technical accounting, and engineering.

Responsibilities:
Analyze contracts to identify contract errors and recovery opportunities
Deliver high-quality audit results to communicate the contract issues to purchasing
Work with key stakeholders to review audit results and agree on recovery approach
Support purchasing in negotiations with suppliers
Drive timely closure of open audits and recovery of over payments
Meet targets on key metrics including contract touch rate, study aging, and cost recoveries
Perform special studies as requested by stakeholders

Education Required: Bachelor's Degree
Years of

Experience:

2 to 4 years

Top

Skills:

Financial & Contract Analysis

• Reviewing supplier contracts and pricing agreements
• Identifying pricing errors and over payment situations
• Determining root causes of contract discrepancies
• Quantifying recovery opportunities

Advanced Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills

• The interview includes math, logic, and analytical assessments
• Candidates must investigate complex pricing discrepancies
• Root cause analysis is a core responsibility of the role

Excel & Data Analysis Capability

• Reviewing large contract reports
• Performing ad hoc analysis
• Identifying recovery opportunities and tracking audit cases
• Supporting financial investigations with data

Required Advanced Excel

Skills:


Pivot tables, Vlook Up/Xlook Up, Index-Match, Formulas

Interview Process:
A technical interview with math, logic, and analytical questions will be done onsite. No remote or Teams interviews will be allowed.
Scenarios may reference manufacturing or cost based examples, but the evaluation focuses on foundational analytical skills, not prior GM or automotive experience.