| Position: |
Business Analyst |
| Job Summary: |
Provide financial and business analysis support on a team challenged with reengineering the supply chain of a large, global, strategic customer with CEO level visibility. Candidates should be familiar with developing savings initiatives from cost data in conjunction with observation and interaction with the operations, finance, and engineering teams. The successful candidate will be highly organized with solid time management and strong analytical problem solving skills. The ability to meet deadlines and commitments is essential.
Our environment is fast paced and innovative, requiring the successful candidate to be comfortable re-prioritizing workload to support urgent requests. Solid written and verbal skills are essential. This individual must be a team player and work well in a diverse group to accomplish complex tasks. |
| Responsibilities: |
- Provide financial support for large, complex customer accounts and ensure sound economic analysis is provided for all customer proposals.
- Assist in the development of business cases, including identify risks, tracking cost savings opportunities, validating savings and communicating information to decision makers, accurately and on time. Includes controlling administrative gates and completing project approvals with customer Finance department.
- Engage directly with the leadership team and finance to understand and explain financial and operational results.
- Understand the use of optimization/decision support tools to perform global supply chain studies, routing optimization and transportation rate analyses.
- Conduct ad hoc analysis for special projects for the client and various internal groups.
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| Requirements: |
- 1 – 3 years of Finance, Accounting or equivalent experience. Experience with network design, lean, manufacturing principles, inventory control, quality control, common freight modes including premium, finished vehicle network design, warehousing, and other related supply chain service requirements preferred.
- Intermediate level skills with MS Word and PowerPoint required. Intermediate to advanced skills with MS Excel. Experience with MS Access and/ or other database tools helpful but not necessary.
- Must be skillful at problem solving, self motivated and able to prioritize work load. Ability to think and plan in a proactive and innovative manner. Strong interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to communicate complex financial and operational information to various levels of the organization.
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred.
- The successful candidate will understand that while individual contributors may be good, team players are better.
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| Date Posted: |
15 September 2008 |
| Location: |
Aurora, IL |
| Position Status: |
Exempt |