Account Finance Manager

The successful Account Financial Manager (AFM) will ensure sound financial decisions and drive financial improvement in the pre-production and post-production phases of our business. This includes responsibility for Business Planning, Product Costing, Product Pricing, Profit Enhancement and Customer Interface on financial issues.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple programs throughout the launch and production phase.
• Interface with Customer: submitting quotes, negotiating pricing, explain product costs to our customer's Financial Analysts, attend cross-functional customer meetings and meet deadlines as provided by the customer.
• Develop New Business Plans which assess Return on Investment, Return on Sales, EBITA and internal cost strategy.
• Work with project teams to develop, track and implement plans to improve profitability.
• Develop competitive pricing strategies with full understanding of internal costs and impacts.
• Work with a complex bill of material to understand and product and plant cost structures.
• Work with a variety of manufacturing processes and related costs.
• Attend cross functional project team meetings, meet deliverables as assigned by project team.
• Track, communicate and follow-up on open financial issues until they are resolved.
• Perform monthly financial updates for top management.
• Track program spending, provide Plant Controllers with monthly forecast
• Support annual budget preparations for pre-production and production business case information
• Review, track and communicate all pricing changes from the customer to the plant locations
• Meet or exceed key financial measures.
• Ad hoc analysis as requested internally or externally.
• Initiate product cost reduction efforts.

Key Must Have’s:

• Business or Finance Degree HIGHLY preferred A Technical education such as Engineering or Project Management will also be considered.– years of experience can out weight a degree.
• An advanced Degree (MBA) and/or Professional Accreditation (CPA or CMA) is preferred.
• Automotive industry experience a must.
• A minimum of five (5) years /- of experience related to Financial Management or Project Management in a Manufacturing environment. Experience in the automotive business is mandatory
• Commodity Instrument Panels, Floor consoles or Interior trim
• They will consider any commodity – so long as it is COMPLEX in manufacturing nature
• For example, an interior Door handle pull would be simple, but an instrument panel is complex in nature of how it gets manufactured.
• Must have strong communication skill set and excellent customer interfacing skills.
• Must have strong finance background.
• Strong Excel, Very strong analytical skill set.
• Understand manufacturing plans and be able to interface with the plants.
• Be able to understand a variety of manufacturing processes. (in order to come up with accurate quotes.)
• From a quote standpoint, be able to do ground up costing right thru to sending quotes to customer.
• Handle customer negotiations.
• Work well with other teams and multiple teams to achieve profitability on programs, Engineering, Program Management, and Purchasing, international team experience a plus but not mandatory.
• Being respectful while challenging their counterparts on program profitability.
• This person must be very financially minded first and foremost, then juggling or program managing the financial of various programs.
• Be able to hold firm on financial decisions made to ensure it benefits the company.
• Financial oversight on OEM automotive programs.
• Understand complex BOMs.
• Ability to communicate effectively to Customers, non-financial stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Ford OEM experience a HUGE plus.
• They will be working on a Ford program
• GM or Toyota program experience a plus also.