The role of the Product Finance Manager is to ensure that accurate product costs are developed and communicated within the organization. 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 Nesting software and Process labor time calculation is desirable
- Experience in the Automotive Industry, seating a plus.
- 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
PRIMARY LOCATION
Central Tech Unit Plymouth MI
