Manager, Finance - AMIEO
alliance.wd3 · Posted Sep 30
Global automotive recruitment and human resources management platform
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About the role
The role sits within the regional finance function supporting the AMIEO region, focused on financial control of the Cost of Sales portfolio covering outbound logistics, End-of-Life battery, connectivity services and intercompany pricing for imported vehicles. It owns budgeting, forecasting, monthly closing and management reporting, and delivers cost performance insights across entities and functions. The position also drives data quality, standardised templates and automation using Excel, Power BI and Tagetik, and acts as the key finance interface with regional functions, entities and headquarters from Chennai.
What you will do
- Own the financial control of the Cost of Sales portfolio
- Maintain a complete view of outbound logistics, End-of-Life battery, connectivity services, intercompany pricing for imported vehicles and other cross-entity cost of sales items.
- Coordinate financial inputs across entities and functions to provide an integrated view of the Cost of Sales portfolio.
- Ensure costs are classified, consolidated and reported consistently across the region.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting process
- Coordinate budget, outlook and forecast submissions across contributing entities and functions.
- Develop forecast models using relevant operational and financial drivers, including volumes, rates, contractual assumptions and foreign exchange impacts where applicable.
- Review and constructively challenge key assumptions, ensuring alignment with regional and global planning guidance.
- Identify, quantify and communicate risks, opportunities and forecast sensitivities.
- Deliver accurate monthly closing and management reporting
- Review actual results, accruals, provisions and reclassifications with accounting and functional teams.
- Reconcile source data to financial systems and work with contributors to resolve material differences and data gaps.
- Prepare monthly reporting with clear variance analysis versus Budget, Forecast and Prior Year.
- Deliver accurate and timely reporting packages in line with regional closing deadlines.
- Provide actionable cost performance insights
- Analyse cost evolution and identify the operational, volume, rate, mix, foreign exchange and timing drivers behind material variances.
- Develop cost-per-unit, trend and performance views appropriate to each cost stream.
- Translate complex cross-entity movements into concise management messages and recommended actions.
- Support scenario analysis, business cases and ad hoc management requests.
- Improve data quality, reporting processes and automation
- Establish robust review controls and audit trails for data received from multiple entities and systems.
- Work with contributors to improve the quality, completeness and timeliness of financial inputs and resolve identified issues.
- Standardise templates, definitions and reporting methodologies across the portfolio.
- Drive simplification and automation using Excel, Power BI, Tagetik and other available finance tools.
- Build effective cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Act as the key finance interface for the assigned cost streams across regional functions, entities and headquarters.
- Facilitate alignment on responsibilities, assumptions and follow-up actions across contributing teams.
- Facilitate performance reviews, communicate financial insights and coordinate agreed actions with relevant stakeholders.
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About alliance.wd3
Alliance WD3 refers to the Workday cloud instance utilized by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance for global talent management, human resources, and recruitment operations. It serves as the primary career and applicant tracking portal for prospective candidates seeking roles across member automotive companies like Nissan North America and Nissan Europe. Through this platform, applicants can apply for professional positions, corporate openings, and early-career student internship opportunities.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1933
- Location
- Yokohama, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Makoto Uchida
Chief Executive Officer
Stephen Ma
Chief Financial Officer
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