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About the Role
The Financial Analyst, Category Controlling plays an important role in connecting finance and the business, partnering with Product Category, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to drive financial visibility, accountability, and decision-making across the product portfolio. As part of the Sound United SBU finance team, the role provides analysis and insights that support profitable growth and the achievement of strategic and financial objectives.
The ideal candidate is analytical, collaborative, and proactive, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights.
What You Will Do
- Analyze product category performance, including revenue, gross margin, pricing, product mix, profitability, and key business drivers providing actionable insights to support decision-making.
- Perform financial analysis and scenario modeling to support product category evaluation, prioritization, and category investment decisions.
- Partner with Product Category and Engineering teams to develop and evaluate business cases, validate financial assumptions, and assess investment opportunities.
- Evaluate post-launch product performance against business case assumptions, profitability targets, and return expectations.
- Compile, analyze, and reconcile actual results versus budget and forecast, identifying key variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain financial models, category performance reporting, dashboards, and key performance metrics (KPIs) to enhance business visibility.
- Support the development of the annual Global R&D budget across shared engineering resources and product categories.
- Ensure financial data integrity across ERP and reporting systems.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency and data visibility through automation and process improvements.
- Support special projects, strategic initiatives, and ad hoc analyses as requested.
What You Need to Be Successful
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- 3-5 years of progressive finance, accounting, or related experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and business performance analysis.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, departments, and management levels, translating complex financial data into meaningful business insights.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with SAP or other large ERP systems, including working with large datasets, reporting tools, and financial systems.
- Availability to engage in meetings, calls, and collaborative activities outside normal business hours as required to effectively support a global organization and ensure alignment across international regions.
Bonus Points if You Have
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other business intelligence tools.
- Experience building profitability models, business cases, and KPI dashboards.
- Ability to thoughtfully utilize AI technologies to enhance understanding, support analysis, streamline workflows, and improve efficiency, while exercising independent judgment and critical thinking.
Salary Ranges:
HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- 3-5 years of progressive finance, accounting, or related experience
- Experience with financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and business performance analysis
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams, departments, and management levels
- Ability to translate complex financial data into meaningful business insights
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience with SAP or other large ERP systems, reporting tools, financial systems, and large datasets
- Availability to participate in meetings and collaborative activities outside normal business hours as needed for global support
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other business intelligence tools
- Experience building profitability models, business cases, and KPI dashboards
- Ability to use AI technologies to support analysis and improve workflows while applying independent judgment
Harman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harman and has not been reviewed or approved by Harman.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, often including medical, dental, and vision plans, with HSAs/FSAs and disability or life insurance also referenced. Wellbeing support such as EAP access and onsite occupational health services is also part of the package in some regions.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle-oriented benefits include employee product discounts and region-specific perks like free fruit deliveries, Cycle to Work schemes, and meal coupons or allowances. Flexible schedules and work-from-home options are also part of the overall offering where roles and projects allow.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is repeatedly characterized as solid or market-aligned for many roles, with salary payments described as consistent and on time. Compensation is also tied to performance in some accounts, reinforcing a perception of basic fairness for a portion of employees.
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What We Do
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with HARMAN!
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