FINANCIAL ANALYST -TN161

Atmus•Nashville, TN

14h•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves coordinating the global capital planning process, partnering with various functional areas to develop CapEx plans for strategic planning, annual operating plans, and quarterly forecasts. The position requires validating business justifications and financial projections for capital projects, coordinating their review and approval, and performing post-investment reviews. Additionally, the role provides financial support to product development and process change organizations, develops financials for strategic growth initiatives, and monitors their performance. The Financial Analyst will act as a liaison between Finance and central Corporate Functions, present financial results, lead the preparation of forecasts for IT and Finance, and participate in the month-end close process. The role also involves improving analytics tools, evaluating US accounting standards, utilizing financial forecast data for projections, preparing statistical reporting, and conducting complex financial analyses for management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
4 years of experience as a Financial Analyst, Accountant, or related position
Experience with Strategic Planning Process (SPP)
Experience with Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
Experience validating financial projection of capital projects
Experience with Post-investment reviews for capital projects
Experience developing financials for Strategic Growth Initiatives (SGI)
Experience with preparation of monthly/quarterly forecasts
Experience with Month-end close process
Experience with US GAAP principles
Experience with Financial performance, variance and cost analysis
Experience preparing ad-hoc analyses for management

Responsibilities

Coordinate global capital planning process.
Partner with Manufacturing, Strategy, Engineering, and other functional areas to develop CapEx plans for SPP, AOP, and quarterly forecasts.
Follow up on execution with functional areas to maintain forecast accuracy.
Validate business justifications and financial projection of capital projects to ensure alignment to strategy of profitable growth.
Coordinate review and approval of CapEx projects with the Capital Review Board (CRB).
Perform post-investment reviews for selected capital projects.
Coordinate and provide CapEx training to functional areas and extended finance teams.
Provide financial support to the Automotive Product Development (APD) and Automotive Process Change (APC) organizations, including leading finance lane for select central projects.
Partner with Strategy and various functions to develop financials for Strategic Growth Initiatives (SGI) identified during SPP.
Participate in the implementation of systems and tools to facilitate the evaluation and tracking of funded SGIs.
Monitor actual performance of SGIs compared to approved business plans, investigate and socialize variations, and follow up on corrective actions.
Act as business partner and primary liaison between Finance and central Corporate Functions, such as the global IT organization.
Present monthly financial results and follow-up for closure of action items identified during the reviews.
Lead the preparation of AOP and monthly/quarterly forecasts for the IT and Finance central organizations.
Participate in month-end close process by coordinating and preparing journal entries, reporting and variance explanations.
Involved with broad FP&A team efforts to improve and implement analytics tools as the company progresses in our continuous improvement initiatives.
Evaluate US accounting standards including US GAAP principles to record transactions in compliance with requirements and company policies.
Utilize financial forecast data to provide forward looking projections to facilitate decision making.
Prepare and consolidate financial data statistical reporting, including financial performance, variance explanations, and cost analysis.
Prepare complex financial analyses, reports, and ad-hoc analyses for management in functional and finance departments.