Ford
Senior Business Analyst - Business Office
Dearborn, MI, United States · Senior
No sponsorship$87k-$145kDetected 1 day ago
Data VisualizationLLMsFinancial AnalysisForecastingExcelProcurementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic Speaking
About the role
- You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams.
- Policy Compliance: Apply a deep understanding of the Ford Finance Manual to appropriately define, categorize, and bin spending based on the item, cost, and intended use.
- Strategic Planning: Focus on current calendar year execution while proactively tracking, modeling, and anticipating department needs 5 years out.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with global department heads to develop, manage, and monitor departmental budgets across five key pillars: Personnel, Purchased Services, Material, Other Indirect, and Capital Projects.
- Maintain strict forecasting accuracy of +/- 5% compared to actual finance results.
- Prepare, update, and present clear financial status reports, forecast models, and presentations for senior design leadership.
- Partner closely with the Corporate Finance team to maintain clear visibility of planned versus target spending, ensuring funding is optimized and utilized within the appropriate fiscal windows.
- Identify trends, locate cost-saving opportunities, and implement robust processes to ensure data integrity and timely reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business operations, financial analysis, corporate procurement, or budget management.
- Prior experience working within Ford Motor Company and a strong familiarity with the Ford Finance Manual, corporate purchasing systems, corporate compliance structures and Product Planning.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
- Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
- Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Skills
- Strong financial acumen with proven experience tracking complex budgets, analyzing variances, and managing forecasting cycles.
- Familiarity with tracking capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx) cycles.
- Proven track record of collaborating effectively with multi-disciplinary, global teams.
- This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900., This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
Compensation
- Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
- This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900., This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Tuition assistance
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
Company info
- You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
- As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice.
Equal opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
- In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online
Visa & Work Authorization
- For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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