Account Finance Manager

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Owns and manages customer pricing for new business acquisition and engineering changes – track status with cross-functional team including Engineering, Program Management, Costing and Contract Management
2. Develops and manages relationships with key customer contacts including Purchasing, Engineering and Finance – support Account Executive on new business acquisition and directly manage commercial items, contract discrepancies and other open issues
3. Develops recommendations on pricing structures based on costing inputs to maximize program return and mitigate financial risk – provides guidance on investment and project decisions
4. Creates and manages all customer documentation related to pricing including cost breakdowns, portal submissions, etc.
5. Collaborates with costing team to assess program profitability and determine options for improvement
6. Serve as business partner cooperating with IT to maintain customer portal requirements
7. Creates and manages internal quote plans to ensure timely, accurate and well documented responses
8. Collaborates with Finance on projects such as customer program profitability, rate of return and new business
9. Provides analysis for forward-looking financial and business-related projects
10. Serve as escalation contact for organization
11. Support Account Executive with management of sales pipeline data

Education & Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in automotive industry
2. Five years of experience in Tier 1 automotive industry or similar manufacturing environment – account management or Finance experience preferred
3. Previous management experience
4. Strong Excel skills, specifically with pivot table creation, and data analytics
5. Familiarity with business intelligence applications and reports

Non-Essential Responsibilities:

1. Meet weekly with customer buyer to close open commercial issues
2. Competitive analysis and reporting
3. Attend customer/supplier Town Hall meetings and industry events, as required
4. Ongoing training of product knowledge of core business and technical innovations within industry
5. Other duties as assigned by Leadership

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

1. Public speaking and business acumen
2. Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
3. Ability to work independently and in a team environment
4. Ability to use problem solving skills
5. Time management.