Job Purpose

The Finance Analyst is a key member of the Finance team, providing support to various functional areas within Canoo. This position involves establishing and maintaining working relationships with engineers, buyers, and managers to gather detailed input for forecasts and budgets, and to support management with analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecast of resource requirements for business groups, including headcount, capital, and operating expenses
• Work with business partners to understand processes and develop driver-based forecasts
• Partner with accounting for period close analysis and group level reporting
• Provide insight on spending variances and project level reporting to business partners
• Coordinate capital expenditure tracking and related cash forecast across engineering teams
• Support program management team on the BOM cost consolidation and analysis
• Develop business models to determine “make vs. buy” decisions for manufacturing
• Update weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports, including budget against actuals, and variance analysis for the specific departments or projects assigned
• Update engineering projects’ financial forecasts to provide best cashflow estimates
• Work with engineering and purchasing teams to maintain the BOM cost forecast and cost improvement roadmap
• Work with accounting and within finance to ensure purchase orders are appropriately accounted for by engineering project and department

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or engineering
• Experience in the finance function, with responsibilities in forecasting, analysis, and reporting
• Excel modeling experience

Preferred Experience 

• Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) programming
• PowerBI, or proficiency in other visual reporting tools
• Willing (and excited) to roll up their sleeves to dig through data, build ground up excel models, and do the work
• Comfortable interacting with people of various backgrounds and levels – from first-year analysts to senior executives, sales, engineering, legal, etc.
• Detail-oriented and data-driven, but can also understand the big picture and strategic elements of proposals
• Resourceful and can figure out solutions where there may not be clear-cut systems or established methodologies

What's Cool About Working Here...

• Flexible PTO
• Participation in the Employee Equity Compensation Plan
• Casual workplace with an unbelievable feeling of energy
• Work in a high-growth start up that will redefine urban mobility

Canoo is an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, past or present military service or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
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