Finance Senior Manager

About the role

Horse Powertrain Horse Powertrain Limited is an independent new powertrain solutions business, with over 125 years of heritage from Renault and Geely. We develop and produce world-class hybrid and combustion engines and transmissions to move our industry forward, offering many different paths to net zero. Horse Powertrain has 19,000 dedicated and determined employees, working in 17 manufacturing plants, and 5 R&D centers on three continents. This role based in Detroit, MI, USA, with occasional travel possible to Horse Powertrain’s other sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead US FP&A and core operating mechanisms including budgets, forecasts and management reviews.
• Enhance metric reporting by delivering and optimizing business performance analytics.
• Provide actionable insights to improve cost efficiency, SG&A transparency, and margin performance; support resource allocation and headcount planning.
• Co-build the U.S. finance function with the Finance Director: define core processes (planning, reporting, governance), set up operating routines, and support team structure as the function scales.
• Act as a finance business partner to US leadership and global corporate development.
• Develop and maintain business cases supporting commercial deals and investment decisions.
• Cook up month-end/year-end close with shared services/global accounting; support audits and statutory reporting as required.
• Ensure strong compliance and controls: U.S. GAAP, corporate accounting policies, SOX/internal controls, and federal/state requirements.
• Lead or coordinate U.S. tax compliance (federal/state/local: income, sales, payroll, etc.) ensuring timely preparation and filing.
• Drive standardized approaches to US reporting and processes, financial systems integration (SAP, Onestream) and support global finance transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business (or related); MBA and/or CPA/CMA preferred.
• 8+ years progressive finance experience, ideally in manufacturing/automotive/technology/industrial environments.
• Proven experience across FP&A, business partnering, cost management, and compliance/controls (U.S. GAAP; SOX/internal controls).
• Experience operating in a global/matrix environment with cross-border stakeholders; comfortable working across time zones.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP and consolidation environments (SAP preferred; OneStream exposure a plus).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with complex datasets; capable of turning numbers into clear decisions for non-finance leaders.
• High integrity, ownership, and ability to work autonomously in a fast-evolving, start-up-like U.S. context.
• Fully fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Equal opportunities employer
• We are committed to equal opportunities, and recruit people based on their competencies and qualifications.
• We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply for our job vacancies.

Skills

• Financial analysis
• Business partnering
• Cost management
• Compliance and controls
• Tax compliance
• ERP and consolidation environments

Benefits

• Dynamic, international environment
• Caring and collaborative people
• Opportunities to grow your career
• Start-up-like U.S. context

Pay

• TBD

Schedule

• TBD