Financial Analyst - Digital Analytics

ZF Group • Farmington Hills, MI

30d • Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Analyst for Digital Analytics drives automation, digitalization, and data enablement within Finance and especially Corporate Controlling & Accounting to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of finance processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Informatics, Data Analytics, or a related field
• 3–7 years of experience in Controlling, Accounting, Finance Transformation, or BI/Analytics environments
• Strong understanding of financial closing processes, reporting structures, and financial data models
• Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query and Power Pivot, with experience reducing manual reporting
• Hands on experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms
• ERP system experience (e.g., SAP or comparable systems) and basic SQL knowledge
• Experience with automation tools and techniques (RPA, VBA, Python) and workflow/process documentation
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills, with the ability to bridge finance and IT stakeholders and support change management

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze manual, inefficient, or high risk finance processes across close cycles, reporting, consolidation, intercompany, budgeting, and forecasting
• Design and implement future state automated processes, workflow solutions, and standardized reporting to reduce Excel based manual effort
• Develop and enhance KPI dashboards, executive reports, and self service analytics while ensuring a single source of truth for finance data
• Analyze large financial datasets to identify variances, trends, efficiency opportunities, and support scenario modeling and predictive analytics
• Support finance data modeling aligned with controlling requirements and business needs
• Act as a finance subject matter expert for ERP, consolidation, and BI systems, translating business requirements into technical specifications
• Partner with IT on system enhancements, upgrades, testing, validation, and data migrations to ensure alignment between finance processes and system architecture
• Promote a data driven finance culture through training, documentation, governance standards, and sharing best practices across global transformation initiatives

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Plan
• Paid Vacation
• Personal Time
• 401k Plan
• Health Care Benefits
• Paid Holidays

What This Job Offers

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