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Job Summary:

Commercial Finance Manager provides financial analysis, supports business decisions for sales and pricing, and partners with commercial teams to manage budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans. Key responsibilities include developing financial models for investments, analyzing commercial contracts, monitoring profitability, and reporting on financial performance to drive profitability. This role requires strong analytical and financial modeling skills, coupled with excellent communication to work with non-finance stakeholders.

This is a hybrid position (Monday-Thursday in-office; Friday remote).

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing programs in development and current production programs to achieve and maintain the approved business case metrics
• Provide sound business cases, cost analysis, margin analysis, product, and customer portfolio analysis in close cooperation with the Supply, Manufacturing and Business Development departments
• Great broad skill set includes analytical, communication, strategic thinking, and technical knowledge of the products
• Outstanding organization and documentation skills and high attention to analytical details
• Provides leadership in communication, character, critical thinking, change mastery, conflict resolution, & coaching and teaming
• Develop New Business Plans which assess IRR and EBITDA
• Support Quotations to be submitted to Customers
• Work with a complex bill of material to understand and cost a product, and related cost drivers
• Work with a variety of manufacturing processes and related costs
• Able to develop customer financial strategies, evaluate business cases, manage all aspects of the quote process and communicate effectively
• Co-pilot with program management to provide financial transparency to facilitate solid decision making
• Co-pilot with program management in managing risks & opportunities
• Attend project team meetings
• Follow-up on open financial issues until they are resolved
• Perform monthly financial updates for top management (Program Reviews, Launch Readiness Review, etc.)
• Understands the automotive industry, market forces, customer systems, target setting process and typical negotiating strategies
• Set cost targets for suppliers, support Make vs Buy Decisions
• Providing input for plants/engineering/tooling for Profit Plan/Forecast
• Control development spending, and challenge the team to identify ways to reduce cost
• Initiate and support product cost reduction efforts
• Other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree is required in Business, Finance, Business Administration or Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience related to financial management or project management
• Strong finance skills and familiarity with business case preparation - financial metrics (IRR%, EBIT, EBITDA)
• Project management skills and proven history of successful completion on independent assignments
• Ability to multi-task and problem-solve in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Demonstrates keen sense of priorities, inspire others with forward looking orientation
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization and with staff at remote locations
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Manufacturing facility experience is preferred
• Automotive experience is preferred
• Proficient in advanced MS Excel

Competencies:

• Result Focus: Focuses on desired outcomes and how to best achieve them. Gets the job done efficiently and effectively.
• Safety Oriented: Plans, manages, and completes tasks keeping in mind all aspects of safety measures, standardized processes and work hazard prevention techniques while ensuring/exceeding compliance to safety policies and legislative requirements.
• Accountability and Dependability: Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with no oversight, including following guidelines, standards regulations and principles.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Enables co-workers to grow and succeed through feedback, instruction, and encouragement; formally delivering information.
• Customer Focus: Ensures that external and internal customers’ needs remain a priority against all other requirements.
• Creative and Innovative Thinking: Develops fresh ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges.
• Decision Making and Judgement: Makes timely, informed decisions that take into account facts, goals, constraints and risks. Sees the big, long-range picture. Aligns direction, products, services and performance with organization.
• Team Work: Promotes cooperation and commitment with the team towards the attainment of common goals. Gets others excited about and committed to furthering the organization’s objectives. Enables cooperative and productive group interactions
• Time Management / Work Ethic: Maximizes time in order to accomplish as many tasks as possible in a timely manner keeping in mind prioritizing tasks as needed.

Working Conditions:

• Typical working hours as per company policy. Office environment, exposure to manufacturing environment as required.

EEO Statement: 

TI Automotive is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.