The Role
The Financial Analyst supports financial programs, ensures profitability, prepares business plans, manages costs, and leads financial communication and reporting.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Core Responsibilities:
- The Financial Analyst is responsible for supporting programs in development and current production programs to achieve and maintain the approved business case metrics of profitability and return on investment.
- Great broad skill set includes analytical, communication, strategic thinking, and technical knowledge of the products.
- Outstanding organization and documentation skills and high attention to analytical details.
- Provides leadership in communication, character, critical thinking, change mastery, conflict resolution, coaching and teaming.
- Supports AFM for Business Planning, Product Costing, Product Pricing, on financial issues.
Additional Responsibilities:
- The Financial Analyst will support development of New Business Plans which assess Return on Investment.
- Support Quotations to be submitted to Customers.
- Work with a complex bill of material to understand and cost a product, and related cost drivers.
- Work with a variety of manufacturing processes and related costs.
- Attend project team meetings/lead project finance meetings as necessary.
- Follow-up on open financial issues until they are resolved.
- Gather and summarize data for monthly financial updates for top management (Program Reviews, Launch Readiness Review, etc.)
- Set cost targets for suppliers, support Make vs Buy Decisions.
- Providing input for plants/engineering/tooling for Profit Plan/Forecast.
- Support AFMs in controlling development spending and other financial matters, challenge the team to identify ways to reduce cost.
- Initiate and support product cost reduction efforts
- Ensure/maintain Metrix/Fiori for pricing updates and retro billing
- Tooling/discrete PO invoicing
Basic Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s Degree is required in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Program Management
- Strong organizational and communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Proficient in advanced MS Excel
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1-2 years’ experience related to financial management or project management
- Automotive finance experience
- Strong finance skills and familiarity with business case preparation - financial metrics (ROS%, IRR%, ROA %)
PRIMARY LOCATION
Central Tech Unit Plymouth MITop Skills
Excel
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The Company
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
