Senior Financial Analyst

• Partner with Quoting Team on Business Case creation for RFQs:

- Compute production cost of operations based on provided cost factors (operation type, cycle time, headcount, scrap), material costs (full Bill of Material),

- Review, consult & constructively challenge CAPEX & Tooling investments needed, Launch & Program management costs, non-standard logistic costs, etc.:

- Generate Business Case in the global template,

- Lead the quoting team to best-costs solutions approach

- Interact with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Logistic and Manufacturing relative to product costing.

• Partner with program manager on product profitability (Award -> SOP):

- Analyze production cost of operations and material costs:

- Analyze profitability variance drivers (machine cycle times, headcounts, scrap rates, machine or labor hourly rates, material quantities or purchasing prices…),

- Analyze selling price developments versus customer / internal engineering change requests,

- Ensure robustness of team action plans and their financial impact calculation (roadmaps),

- Reporting for consolidation Europe/Global,

• Partner with program manager on tooling profitability & cashflow planning:

- Cost to date / to come versus maximum authorized spending,

- Invoicing / payment on time (actual + forecast),

- Tooling margins, profit management (actual + forecast),

- Tooling budget / forecast and actuals,

• Contribute to ad hoc projects.

• Master’s degree in Finance or Industrial Engineering,
• 2-3 year experience in industrial/manufacturing environment (project management, finance / controlling, sales, business development),
• Advanced Excel (database management, pivot tables…) skills is a must,
• Business English is a must,
• SAP experience preferred.

Required soft skills

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently (self task management),
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
• Attention to quality of performed analyses and outcome results,
• Ability to easily translate financial analyses results to non-financial coworkers,
• Ability to interact with all levels/departments throughout the company (exposure to Director’s and VP’s levels).

Work environment/ work conditions

• General office setting,
• Hybrid work model (one day per week in office) preferred, full remote work possible for candidates who are located far from our offices in Bielsko-Biala.
• Business trip during onboarding to visit Cooper Standard production plant in Europe.

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