Finance Operations Analyst

Title: Finance Operations Analyst

Industry: Autonomous Vehicle / Technology

Location: Foster City, CA

Duration: Approximately 6 months

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models for program budgets, cost baselines, forecasts, and should-cost analysis.
• Track actual spending against forecasts, perform variance analysis, and explain key cost drivers to program stakeholders.
• Support monthly and quarterly close activities, including accruals, invoice reconciliation, and purchase order tracking with Finance and Procurement.
• Partner with Cost Engineering and Program Management to validate BOM cost estimates and assess the financial impact of design, sourcing, and investment decisions.
• Develop leadership-ready financial reports and dashboards while identifying opportunities to improve financial tracking and reporting processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 2–4 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, cost accounting, or a related finance function.
• Advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills, including financial modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario modeling.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Program Management, Procurement, or similar non-finance teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate detailed financial information into concise narratives for non-finance leadership; experience with automotive, aerospace, hardware, manufacturing, ERP/procurement, or business intelligence tools is preferred.

Skills

• FP&A
• Financial Modeling
• Forecasting
• Variance Analysis
• Cost Accounting
• BOM Costing
• SAP
• Ariba
• Excel
• Program Finance

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

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