What you'll do:
In this role you will assist leading the consolidation and financial reporting of North American R&D activities. In partnership with other finance teams, you will develop and manage forecasts, budgets, and monthly variance analysis while maintaining a high degree of financial integrity. This role is also expected to drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes, strengthening data reliability, and evaluating business drivers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Forecast and budget development
- Actual and forecast reporting
- Program spending and KPI tracking
- Review and approval of spending requisitions
- Cost reduction opportunity identification
- Indirect Cost Control
- Intercompany Payable/Receivable Accounting
- Ad-hoc reporting/special projects as needed
What you'll learn:
- The ability to work with operational counterparts while practicing financial management (forecasts, budgets).
- Manage collaboration with engineering counterparts to optimize efficiency of ER&D spending from cost controllership perspective.
- Ability to make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with large data sets, and the ability to summarize (and often times present) the material in a clear and concise manner to all levels of management.
- Learn engineering's product development process as well as the management process throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
What this role will prepare you for:
Provides exposure to various “Industrial” areas, and therefore provides excellent background for rotational positions in the following areas:
- Product Finance
- Purchasing Finance
- Manufacturing Finance
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (if no Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, must have an MBA)
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in business unit budgeting and forecasting
- Minimum of 2 years of Microsoft Office Suite application experience
- Strong project management skills to manage multiple work streams at one time
- Ability to deliver on high-priority requests in a timely manner, providing a point of view for direction of deliverable
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA, CPA preferred
- Excellent navigation and comprehensive knowledge of SAP software application
- Reporting Database (Onestream, HFM, Essbase)
- Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written)
- Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Lookup), PowerBI/Qlik knowledge beneficial
- Automotive industry knowledge a plus
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting or MBA
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum of 2 years in business unit budgeting and forecasting
- Minimum of 2 years Microsoft Office Suite experience
- Strong project management skills
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
