Finance Analyst – CapEx & Material Cost, Ford Energy

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end support for operational budgets and forecasts, deploying targets directly to operational departments and establishing efficient targets on specific income statement line items.
• Develop, execute, and oversee comprehensive cost-reduction roadmaps alongside operating teams. Complete benchmarking studies and detailed business case analyses to uncover optimal cost-saving opportunities.
• Serve as a key financial interface for the operating team to proactively troubleshoot and resolve daily cost challenges, while actively training and educating both hourly and salaried team members on the plant's Cost Operating System to foster a shared culture of financial awareness and accountability.
• Partner with operations and engineering to discover, evaluate, and implement modern technologies and automated systems.
• Support ongoing accounting and internal control efforts as required, ensuring strict financial integrity and adherence to reporting standards.
• Build and maintain dynamic financial models to evaluate capital investments (CapEx) and track commitments and spending against targets and business thresholds.
• Partner with engineering to draft robust business cases for plant retooling and investment initiatives.
• Maintain the end-to-end CapEx budget and forecast, tracking actual spend against project milestones.
• Partner with operations and engineering to audit BOM accuracy, identify discrepancies and cost opportunities, and ensure production costing reflects physical reality.
• Track scrap rates and material waste, translating physical loss into financial impact and partnering with quality teams on cost-reduction roadmaps.
• Collaborate with purchasing to model the financial impact of commodity price fluctuations, supplier changes, and "should-cost" assessments for raw materials.
• Analyze and report material variances to operations and plant leadership.
• Develop and oversee material and capital cost-reduction roadmaps alongside the operating and engineering teams to deliver annual targets.
• Actively teach the plant's "Cost Operating System" to both hourly and salaried team members, specifically focusing on yield, scrap, and utilization metrics.
• Validate financial data and adapt material costing and CapEx tracking models to ensure seamless transitions during new business system implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, FP&A, or cost analysis, with a strong preference for experience focusing on capital budgeting or material costing in a manufacturing environment.
• 1+ year of experience with modern analytical and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI) or scripting languages (e.g., Python, SQL, PowerApps) to automate repetitive reporting and build interactive dashboards.
• Hands-on experience navigating and extracting data from major ERP systems (e.g., SAP) to track CapEx, OpEx, purchase orders, and inventory.
• Advanced spreadsheet modeling expertise (e.g., advanced formulas, Pivot Tables, Power Query, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to manipulate, clean, and model large datasets (10,000+ rows) related to material transactions and capital assets.
• Even better, you may have an MBA or Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting and 5+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, FP&A, or cost analysis, with a strong preference for experience focusing on capital budgeting or material costing in a manufacturing environment.