Corporate FPA Supervisor

Ford • Dearborn, MI

3d • $115,500 - $218,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) role is essentially the "strategic engine" of a company’s finance department. Not only focus on recording and reporting actual and earning, but also FP&A focuses on the future—using data to help leadership make informed decisions about where the company is going.
Corporate FP&A is more than just a finance function—we are strategic partners. We work hand-in-hand with teams across the company to drive results. When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your financial expertise to real-world challenges in everything from manufacturing to marketing and global distribution. We are seeking an energetic and driven FP&A professional to join our Corporate Profit Analysis team. This high-impact role provides critical support to the CFO, and FP&A Director in a fast-paced environment. As a Supervisor, you will gain significant exposure to strategic decision-making and play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s financial path.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or finance.
• At least 5 years of experience working on a finance team, including at least 2 rotations.
• At least 1 year of experience leading and developing processes for a specific financial workstream.
• Strong financial, analytical, and leadership skills, with excellent attention to detail, including tie points.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a strong team-oriented approach.
• Highly motivated and emotionally resilient; disciplined, flexible, and adaptive to leadership needs.
• Process-oriented, with a continuous improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in an FP&A or consolidation role.
• Experience with IMPRS, advanced Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Consolidates inputs from Segments, skill teams, GPO and summarize it for senior management reviews.
• Lead role on ad-hoc study / analysis based on requests (CFO, Investor relations, CMD, GLM etc.).
• Prepare / Update Desk Procedures & all other internal requirements like MCRP etc.
• Some preparation & maintain working files for Actual / Forecast / Earnings and focus on process improvements and quality assurance.
• More focus on interpreting complex data and identifying patterns to provide key highlights for decision making with lesser focus on recon & consolidation.
• Drive simplification, elimination of waste and continuously look for / implement process improvements.
• Understand unique processes followed by regions / skill teams (e.g. L&OH in Inventory, CO2 accounting, etc.) and challenge any non-value-added activities.
• Understand and monitor complicated concepts like activity in Other Volume and Other OPE.
• Team work planning (e.g. meeting setup) and communication with skill team / segment leadership.
• Mastery and understanding of core Ford financial processes / reporting (IMPRS, Variance Reporting, Timing).
• Focus and deep dive on volume related analysis and additional focus on inventory, wholesale, production movements across regions and segments.
• Lead coordination and alignment of multiple teams to ensure total company view is understandable and explainable to senior leadership.
• Act as gatekeeper to late overlays and changes and how to best handle without major disruptions / rework while maintaining alignment with all segments and skill teams.
• Manage non-EBIT items incl. cash flow, specials, legal entity profits, total company key physicals, and ROIC.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop Corporate instructions letter and drive its implementation through a clear timeline.
• Lead the development of executive-level slide decks for the consolidated Forecast and business plan, encompassing all skill teams and segments inputs.
• Coordinate and share knowledge with segment FP&A teams to improve overall departmental knowledge and awareness.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager