As a Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for working alongside our Business Unit non-financial managers to develop and improve commercial and financial decision making in support of maximizing financial results. As a trusted advisor you will provide support and analysis to operations and management to add value to the business, influence day to day decisions, help shape strategy and the direction of the business.

What would a typical day look like?

• Build and maintain partnership with Classic Design’s President, the executive team, and the accounting team – become their trusted advisor to help manage their businesses and make effective financial and commercial decisions, including:
• Lead on financial and commercial matters
• Influence decision making
• Educate and improve the understanding of Financial Reporting and Business Unit performance.
• Deliver insight on business opportunities.
• Drive value through decisions to improve increasing revenue and bottom-line performance through efficiencies and business decisions.
• Provide options and scenarios to support business and commercial decisions in the Business Unit to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are achieved.
• Lead business planning and strategy
• Bottoms-up financial planning including leading the annual budgeting process.
• Sales opportunity evaluation and support to ensure consistency with business strategy and financial targets.
• Lead and Enhance financial and operational forecasting.
• Revenue and profit
• Labor demand and capacity
• Sales funnel
• Lead and Develop financial analysis.
• Monthly income statement analysis including financial bridges from budget to actual
• Metric reporting
• Labor cost analyses
• Working capital analyses
• Financial bridges and waterfalls
• Lead and Develop project analysis
• Partner to Project Managers to help them understand financial profile and status of projects.
• Financial risk anticipation and mitigation
• Tracking and management of Project Financials including total estimated costs of each project
• Develop and present comprehensive financial analyses to project managers, enabling them to grasp the financial aspects of their projects with clarity.
  • This includes creating detailed reports and visualizations that break down project costs, revenue, and profitability, utilizing advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables, power query, and VBA to ensure data accuracy and actionable insights.
• Generate regular recurring reports and analysis in both weekly and monthly cadences, drawing information from several different data sources. This could include ad-hoc report development as wells as regular structure reporting.
• Support the President on weekly and monthly operational and financial metrics, Monthly Business Reviews (MBR), board presentation support, and other ad hoc items.
• Drive a cadence of meetings with Business Unit leaders:
• Weekly discussions around performance to KPI metrics, suggestions for improvement, seek to understand gaps to plan.
• Regular involvement with sales and applications engineering in proposal development relating to pricing and commercial matters, as well as advising on payment terms along with terms & conditions with customers.
• Attendance at team huddles to support the managers in discussions with their teams and address financial questions.
• Monthly financial review in detail

What qualifies you for this opportunity?

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in finance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices
• Proficient in utilizing data warehouse tools and technologies to gather, clean, and organize large and disparate datasets for meaningful insights.
• Adept at translating data warehouse information into actionable business intelligence, aiding in decision-making and performance improvement initiatives.
• Proficiency in MS Office
• We are seeking a candidate with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, capable of handling complex data analysis tasks including but not limited to creating pivot tables, utilizing power query for data manipulation, and writing VBA code to streamline processes. This expertise is crucial for our FP&A operations to ensure efficient and accurate financial reporting and analysis.
• Knowledge of project management and experience with project costing, accounting, and analysis
• Knowledge of Percentage of Completion accounting methodology (Preferred)
• Project Estimate At Completion methods and analysis (Preferred)
• Experience in an Engineered to Order or Engineering Services business (Preferred)
• Commercially aware, understanding and anticipating the needs of both operations and management
• Strong core business skills including influencing, stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills working with individuals and building collaborative relationships
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to interpret data and to present the findings to the relevant stakeholders in a clear and concise way
• Embraces a culture of continuous improvement, constantly seeking opportunities to enhance processes and systems. Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to personal and professional growth, driving efficiency and excellence within the organization.
• Strong presentation skills
• Possesses a coachable attitude
• Have the ability to form and stand behind opinions
• Have well-developed sense of ethics and integrity
• Comfortable with risk and working with ambiguity
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Reliable transportation and an ability to travel; although this position requires minimal travel, you should have the ability to travel within US and Canada

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to feel objects, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, talk and hear.
• Specific vision abilities required for the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Classic Design (a Convergix Company)

Founded in 1974, Classic is an end-to-end designer, developer, and integrator of custom automation solutions to customers in the automotive and defense sectors. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, with a global footprint across the US and India and a strong legacy of engineering excellence, Classic is an established and innovative partner that is capable of delivering customized solutions across diverse systems and applications.

What does Classic Offer You?

Here at Classic, we offer a very generous compensation and benefits package including:

• Health
• Dental coverage
• 401K and more!

ABOUT CONVERGIX AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS

Convergix Automation Solutions is a Global Systems Integrator specializing in custom automated manufacturing systems including, robotics, controls, material handling, information and software systems, process automation in a variety of manufacturing industries. With over 900 employees, 25 Locations worldwide and $300M in Sales, Convergix is growing organically as well through acquisition to become a leading $1B Automation Integration global partner. We are a single source automation solutions provider that leverages the geography, technology, industry expertise and capacity of the entire Convergix portfolio across the entire value chain for our customers in a diverse set of industries.

Learn more about us: https://convergixautomation.com/

What does Convergix value?

Our values are our foundational concepts on which we build CONVERGIX; we adhere to these no matter what mountain we climb.

• Integrity - Respect, Transparency, Commitment
• Excellence - Continuous Improvement, Innovation, Collaboration, Communication
• Passion - Momentum, Sense of Urgency, Growth, Success, Velocity

We thank all candidates for their interest, however only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Classic Design has an accommodation program in place that provides reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or a medical need, please contact Human Resources.