The Product Finance Manager is to ensure that accurate product costs are developed and communicated within the organization. Strong cost estimating experience is required. Knowledge of product and process is critical; this individual must be able to review product design and manufacturing process assumptions for reasonableness. The Product Finance Manager needs to be able to bring business perspective to this data.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and review product cost details: material usage, material cost, equipment requirements, labor requirements, cycle times, tooling, launch and capital requirements for new business or changes to current business
• Develop Process Rate for Plants
• Review complex bill of materials for reasonableness
• Review manufacturing assumptions for reasonableness
• Understand the Development of Pro-forma’s for manufacturing facilities
• Capacity to bring financial perspective to costing data.
• Communicate / Educate the organization regarding the cost data.
• Develop / refine benchmark cost models to support our Purchasing team.
• Support Purchasing negotiations.
• Support regional and corporate initiatives
• Ability to bridge financial data
• Actively contribute to departmental initiatives/process improvements to enhance the overall department’s effectiveness.
• Commitment to use/improve costing procedures and tools

Qualifications:

• Four Year College Technical Degree (Finance, Business, or Engineering desired)
• 5+ years’ experience
• Knowledge of material usage calculation software and process labor time calculation is desirable
• Costing experience in the Automotive Industry desired.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proven interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Occasional travel may be required

Customers

Customer Groups

Purchasing

Internal Sales

Operations

Product Groups

Engineering