Finance Analyst - Supplier Tooling

What You’ll Do:

The individual will partner with Purchasing Finance and Purchasing to support the processing of tooling refurbishment and replacement requisitions. This role will also collaborate closely with the external tooling auditor to verify the location and existence of company assets.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Review and approve tooling refurbishment and replacement purchase order requests.
• Partner with the external tooling auditor to manage Vendor Tooling audits, including supplier selection, audit result reviews, open item resolution, and audit closure support.
• Coordinate with Purchasing Finance to validate and track accrual releases for cancelled programs, ensuring supplier payments are accurately cross charged.
• Perform data analysis, prepare journal entries, and estimate monthly forecast related to program cancellations and impairments.
• Complete month end close activities, including journal entries and actuals variance explanations.
• Verify and issue AP payment notices to support timely advance supplier payments.
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, internal controls, and external auditor requests.
• What You’ll Learn
• How to analyze the differences between supplier capital, expense, and capital expense and how to determine where the items should be booked 
• The elements of Tooling Expense Authorization (TEAs), and how distinguish the differences between the various categories’ i.e., T3, T8, TR, WC, etc…
• Managing the Vendor Tooling audit process from beginning to end
• The month end close process, including the accounting for vehicle cancellation and impairments

What This Role Will Prepare You For:

• Dealing with complex business challenges within the various disciplines of Finance, Accounting, Procurement
• Developing an understanding of the various operating groups such as Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing and how they link to the Supplier Tooling group

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of Accounting or Finance experience
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related degree
• Month end closing, variance explanation, and forecasting experience
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good working knowledge of accounting principles, methods and techniques
• Working knowledge of PentaSAP and SOX compliance experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with conflicting deadlines
• Highly motivated self-starter and change agent
• Excellent analytic, communication and teamwork skills
• High proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA
• Knowledge of how all phases of Procurement, Finance, and Accounting interrelate i.e., Platform Finance, Technical Accounting, Finance relate functionally to Supplier Tooling