Project Controller

Brose•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
3+ years work experience in technical/engineering or Controlling/Finance function
Ideally profound Controlling or Project Development Process knowledge
Advanced skills in MS-Excel
Very good analytical skills and understanding of numbers
Good communication abilities
Self-driven and structured working approach

Responsibilities

Drive all commercial processes within customer team to improve profitability
Setup and maintain correct, plausible and competitive project calculations for complex products with several production plants involved
Monitor project profitability frequently and support identifying countermeasures in case of plan or target deviations
Derive target cost for acquisition/development projects and support identifying measures to achieve targeted cost structure
Participate in business planning activities of customer team/product group through providing and analyzing of relevant commercial information (maintain acquisition and development project calculations in integrated planning system, analysis of series projects etc.)
Ensures compliance of group, business unit and regional requirements of commercial processes
Prepare accurate monthly customer team P&L analysis that include actual to plan/target bridge analysis, future result development estimates and risk/opportunity assessments
Evaluation and regular tracking of cost improvement measures of the customer team
Prepare ad hoc analysis, special business case evaluation and cost benefit analysis