Senior Financial Project Manager

Senior Accounting Manager

Required

Education:

Bachelor's degree, Major in Accounting

Preferred Education:

Certified Public Accountant or master's degree accounting/taxation/financial planning/business administration

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a manager, 7+ years of automobile industry specific experience as a manager
• 10+ years of experience in accounting/tax/controlling/finance
• 10+ years' experience in finance systems SAP including SAP 4
  
  HANA and 5+ finance systems implementation
• 10+ years of collaboration a project of diverse and distributed teams, Hands-on experience implementing a new accounting standard, such as IFRS or US GAAP
• 10+ years of proven cross-functional collaboration in accounting/tax/controlling/business areas
• 10+ years of automobile industry specific experience in cost accounting, financial planning (budgeting, forecasting), public accounting, tax accounting or corporate accounting
• Broad knowledge of general accounting topics
• Specific knowledge of warranty, goodwill, buyback, and service contract accounting including US lemon law knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel
• Advanced use of BI tools (Tableau, QLIK, Power BI)

Responsibilities:

Role requires a versatile set of skills and industry specific extensive experience. Incumbent must bring a senior accounting background, like Senior Corporate accounting not operational accounting. The candidate needs to be able analyze US GAAP/IFRS standard treatment for very complex topics and service contracts.

Candidate needs to be familiar the US lemon law to determine correct accounting for buybacks

Candidate will perform complex financial analysis for business cases utilizing Power BI tools like Qlik/Tableau

Candidate must have skills and extensive experience in planning (budgeting and forecasting) for Warranty, Goodwill, and Service Contracts:

• Projects:
  Candidate must know New Warrants System (NWS), Datamart, Qlik CPO, and oil only automation.
• Analysis:
  Batterie State of Health;
  Maintenance Upgrade programs;
  Multi Components contract Review.
• Planning:
  Planning and comparison for Warranty, Goodwill, and Service Contracts (WGSC).

The candidate independently plans (budget, forecasts, outlook), creates, and analyzes Warranty/Goodwill/Service Contract related provisions and liabilities. On a monthly basis this role provides actual / plan variance analysis of the financial result and creates reporting to senior management

This position also performs quarterly studies of Warranty / Goodwill / Service Contracts provisions and liabilities to ensure appropriate reserve levels. Further this position manages the development and implementation of tools to enhance and automate accounting processes

The candidate will manage the financial analysis of the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements (balance sheet and P&L) against budget, forecast and prior year actuals for total company analysis by segment and product line) and create reporting to senior management

Additional analysis of consolidated group view against budget/forecast in close collaboration with controlling

The candidate will manage the monthly Financial Statement Meeting and explain variances and overall business developments to head of accounting and head of controlling

Independently plan LRP, Budget, Forecast and Outlook for all aspects of provisions for Warranty, Goodwill (> $ 2 billion), as well as deferred revenue positions for Roadside Assistance, Scheduled Maintenance, Maintenance Plan Upgrades and CPO Protection (> $ 1.5 billion)

Cross-functional collaboration with multiple business departments on all management levels to lead the monitoring of program profitability/loss for service contracts on a vendor code / program level

Independently provide timely analyses, reporting of developments and proposals regarding program structure, pricing, efficiencies, and other revenue enhancing and cost savings opportunities as applicable to direct and upper management

Collaborate with multiple business departments on all management levels to align and understand the most current trends and to determine…