À propos de ce poste Engineering Finance Analyst / Engineering Cost Controller chez ALTEN Technology USA
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
What you'll do:
- This individual serves as a Finance point of contact for all Engineering, Research & Development (ER&D) spending for Indirect Expense across multiple programs.
- This individual works closely with Engineering, Purchasing, and Product Finance staff to manage and control all aspects of spending indirectly supporting approved programs.
- Each analyst shares ownership with the Engineering team of the development, reporting, and tracking of budgeted, actual, and forecast spending for assigned programs.
- This role interacts very closely with the Engineering Operations teams as a direct business partner.
Key Responsibilities:
- Forecast and Budget development
- Actual and Forecast reporting/variance explanations
- Program/Indirect spending and KPI tracking
- Review and Approval of spending requisitions
- Cost reduction opportunity identification
- Indirect Cost controlling and ledger deep dives
- Cost Center mapping/reporting/management
- Ad-hoc reporting/special projects as needed
What you'll learn:
- The ability to work with operational counterparts while practicing financial management (forecasts, budgets).
- Manage collaboration with engineering counterparts to optimize efficiency of ER&D spending from cost controllership perspective.
- Ability to make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with large data sets, and the ability to summarize (and often times present) the material in a clear and concise manner to all levels of management.
- Learn engineering's product development process as well as the management process throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
What this role will prepare you for:
Provides exposure to various “Industrial” areas, and therefore provides excellent background for rotational positions in the following areas:
- Product Finance
- Purchasing Finance
- Manufacturing Finance
Qualifications / Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (if noBachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, must have an MBA).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance or Accounting.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in business unit budgeting and forecasting.
- Minimum of 2 years of Microsoft Office Suite application experience.
- Strong project management skills to manage multiple work streams at one time.
- Ability to deliver on high-priority requests in a timely manner, providing a point of view for direction of deliverable.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA and/or CPA preferred
- Excellent navigation and comprehensive knowledge of SAP software application
- Reporting Database (Onestream, HFM, Essbase)
- Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written)
- Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Lookup), PowerBI/Qlik knowledge beneficial
- Automotive industry knowledge a plus
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
