Cost / Financial Manager - SRT

The Cost / Financial Manager - SRT is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and  assessments) for programs up to and including the contract commitment milestone. Activity begins with Intention Milestone and continues through Contract Commitment Milestone and potentially to the end of life for a vehicle program. The Manager will own the target development process to ensure total production cost and supplier tooling costs are  complete and rational to support the business case. The Manager will work with multiple  cross functional organizations and all levels of management from senior executives to  product Design and Release Engineers.

Critical Skills :

Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation.  Understand and apply reference vehicle data and Low Cost Country savings to EBOM  component level data. Understanding of vehicle construction by systems (Body, Chassis,  Powertrain, Interior, etc ) and subsystems (Underbody, suspension, trim, cooling, HVAC,  etc ). Understand part break up of vehicles and how they are assembled. Ability to identify  and organize technical commodities into their functional purpose. Identify and propose  design alternatives to meet and exceed aggressive cost targets Lead cross functional team  reviews of cost status to target, component sourcing, governance cost report outs.

Methodology / Tools Expertise :

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel & PowerPoint)
• Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
• Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook
• Fastcar2
• EBOM & STV
• SMAK (Vehicle volume tracking)
• QlikSense
• Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
• Global Sourcing Tool (GST) & Sourcing Offset Forms
• PentaSAP
• Global Bulletin System