What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst (Hybrid - Warren, MI) position at The Mom Project?
A partner of The Mom Project in the automotive industry is seeking a contract Financial Analyst to help support their business needs.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Analyze contracts to identify pricing errors, discrepancies, and recovery opportunities
- Deliver high-quality audit findings to communicate contract issues to purchasing teams
- Partner with stakeholders to review audit results and agree on recovery strategies
- Support purchasing teams in supplier negotiations
- Drive timely closure of open audits and recovery of overpayments
- Meet performance targets, including contract touch rate, study aging, and cost recovery goals
- Perform financial analysis using internal systems to determine root causes of pricing errors
- Analyze ad-hoc financial and operational reports
- Interface with cross-functional teams in both group and individual settings to review discrepancies between purchasing systems and supplier contracts
- Drive closure of open cases and collection of overpayments within established timelines
- Conduct special studies as requested by leadership
- Identify and collect significant annual supplier cost recoveries
- Strong financial and contract analysis capabilities
- Experience identifying pricing discrepancies and recovery opportunities
- Ability to interpret supplier contracts and purchasing system data
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to drive results and meet recovery and performance targets
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Customer-focused mindset
- Experience supporting change initiatives and process improvements
- Functional expertise in financial analysis and contract compliance
- Experience supporting purchasing or supply chain organizations
- Experience conducting large-scale contract audits and supplier recovery initiatives
- M-F, 40 hours/week
- Hybrid in Warren, MI - 3 days(Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in-office, 2 days remote per week