General Motors

MFG Finance Investment Analyst - PIM Analyst

General Motors • $88K — $105K *
Warren, MI 48089In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5+ years of experience in finance.
  • Proven skills in financial modeling, investment analysis, and valuation techniques.
  • Strong data mining and modeling experience with relevant software.
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting complex financial data to stakeholders.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Track record of independent work with sound judgment in significant matters.
  • Analytical skills capable of translating data into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead monthly forecast reviews with management and cross-functional teams.
  • Reconcile forecasts against scorecard expectations and identify variances.
  • Enhance forecast accuracy by analyzing performance and challenging assumptions.
  • Maintain program visibility for forecasts and funding activities.
  • Translate complex financial information into clear management recommendations.
  • Anticipate and resolve funding risks with limited supervision.
  • Coordinate funding movements and support execution of funding releases.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment requiring minimum in-office presence three times per week.
  • Opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams spanning multiple areas.
  • Access to advanced technologies for AI-driven reporting and analytics.
  • Potential for career development and mentoring opportunities with less-experienced analysts.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Projects Finance Analyst supports the Program Investment Management (PIM) desk within Global Capital Management. This role connects the Global Capital Team's scorecard process with Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Chiefs, Manufacturing Investment Managers (MIMs), and program teams to improve forecast accuracy, funding execution, and active program checkbook oversight.

The role is designed for a fully qualified finance professional who can operate independently, exercise sound judgment on significant matters, and influence cross-functional partners without direct authority. The analyst will combine financial expertise, business partnership, data and reporting capability, and continuous-improvement leadership to help move PIM toward a more connected, AI-enabled, and forward-looking finance model.

A central focus of the role is enhancing AI-augmented reporting and translating financial data into actionable insight. The analyst will partner with Future of Finance teams to improve standardized reporting, strengthen forecast accuracy, and help embed new planning, reporting, and analytics capabilities into day-to-day manufacturing investment management.

Key Responsibilities
Program Investment Management and Forecasting
  • Lead monthly forecast reviews with management, MIMs, ME Chiefs, and program teams.
  • Reconcile program forecasts to Global Capital Team scorecard expectations and independently identify material variances, risks, trends, and required actions.
  • Improve forecast accuracy by challenging assumptions, analyzing historical performance, evaluating forecast-to-actual results, and partnering with engineering and program owners on corrective actions.
  • Maintain visibility to program forecasts, funding requirements, and management checkbook activity across CAPEX and OPS.
  • Translate complex financial information into clear recommendations for management and program stakeholders.
  • Anticipate forecast and funding risks and drive issues through resolution with limited supervision.

Funding Execution and Business Partnership
  • Coordinate and execute approved funding movements on behalf of program teams.
  • Support funding-release execution following approval requests, including coordination with Global Business Services (GBS).
  • Partner with Manufacturing, Global Capital Management, engineering, program teams, and finance leadership to ensure funding decisions are accurately reflected and executed on schedule.
  • Facilitate cross-functional meetings, clarify roles and actions, and use persuasion and data to align stakeholders with differing priorities.
  • Serve as a subject-matter resource for less-experienced analysts and share effective forecasting, reporting, and checkbook-management practices.

AI-Enabled Reporting and Forecast Accuracy
  • Own the continuous improvement of AI-augmented reporting for PIM and manufacturing investment activity.
  • Develop and enhance standardized reporting that provides clear visibility to forecast accuracy, forecast-to-actual performance, cycle-over-cycle changes, funding requirements, and key forecast drivers.
  • Use AI, automation, and advanced analytics to identify anomalies, surface meaningful trends, prioritize variances, and reduce manual reporting effort.
  • Establish clear validation practices for AI-generated insights, including review of source data, forecast versions, assumptions, and business context before information is used in management decisions.
  • Build reporting views that enable drill-down from management-level results to the program, account, or driver level where appropriate.
  • Partner with program and engineering teams to convert AI-generated insights into actions that improve forecast assumptions, timing, and accuracy.
  • Track recurring forecast issues and use root-cause analysis to recommend process, data, or system improvements.
  • Measure the effectiveness of reporting enhancements through adoption, cycle-time reduction, data quality, and improved forecast accuracy.

Future of Finance Partnership
  • Partner with Future of Finance teams supporting OneStream, Finance360, and related planning, reporting, data, and AI capabilities.
  • Translate PIM and manufacturing stakeholder needs into clear business requirements, reporting enhancements, data-quality priorities, and user stories.
  • Participate in design reviews, testing, user acceptance, implementation, and adoption activities for future-state forecasting and reporting solutions.
  • Help migrate the organization from fragmented, manually assembled reporting toward standardized, governed, on-glass reporting and connected planning processes.
  • Provide practical feedback from PIM users to improve Finance360 reporting, AI insights, scenario analysis, and forecast workflows.
  • Promote responsible use of AI by combining automated insight generation with finance judgment, business validation, and appropriate governance.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate duplicate reporting, reduce manual handoffs, and improve the end-to-end experience for finance and program partners.


The successful candidate will:
  • Demonstrate complete knowledge of PIM responsibilities and broad knowledge of related finance, manufacturing, engineering, planning, and capital-management processes.
  • Work independently with general management guidance and exercise discretion on significant matters.
  • Address complex, non-standard problems with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, timelines, and competing priorities.
  • Develop and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency, forecast accuracy, reporting quality, and management decision support.
  • Own initiatives from problem definition through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • Influence senior internal partners and cross-functional stakeholders, including those who may not be familiar with the subject matter.
  • Use data, analysis, and financial storytelling to demonstrate the value of recommendations and anticipate objections.
  • Create measurable impact across the immediate organization and broader finance or manufacturing function.
  • Act as a resource and mentor to less-experienced team members.
  • Lead by example through accountability, curiosity, collaboration, openness to feedback, and a bias toward practical solutions.

Key Stakeholders

This position works closely with:
  • Global Capital Management
  • Global Capital Team and scorecard process owners
  • Manufacturing Engineering Chiefs and MIMs
  • Engineering and program teams
  • Global Business Services
  • Future of Finance, OneStream, Finance360, and related data and reporting teams
  • Finance leadership and management partners supporting manufacturing investments


Job Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5 + years of related experience in finance.
  • Proven experience in financial modeling, investment analysis, and valuation techniques.
  • Strong data mining and data modeling skills, with experience using relevant software and tools.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly, concisely, and confidently to a broad range of stakeholders.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with frequent ad hoc and time-sensitive requests.
  • Proven ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and maintain strong attention to detail in a role with significant ownership and visibility.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations from both a process improvement and investment decision-making perspective.
  • Continuous improvement mindset with a willingness to innovate, challenge existing processes, and bring forward bold, practical ideas.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn the business, especially manufacturing operations, in order to strengthen financial partnership and decision support.
  • Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and influence partners through credibility and insight.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Preferred Experience
  • Experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, capital planning, program finance, investment management, or financial planning and analysis.
  • Experience with enterprise forecasting, scorecards, forecast-to-actual analysis, funding approvals, or management checkbook oversight.
  • Experience with OneStream, Finance360, Power BI, or similar planning, reporting, and analytics platforms.
  • Experience implementing reporting automation, AI-enabled insights, driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, or data-quality improvements.
  • Experience participating in finance transformation, system implementation, user acceptance testing, or process redesign.
  • Experience coaching or mentoring analysts and leading cross-functional improvement initiatives.

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured by the candidate's ability to:
  • Improve the timeliness, quality, and accuracy of monthly forecast reviews.
  • Increase visibility to forecast-to-actual performance, key drivers, funding needs, and checkbook activity.
  • Deliver accurate and timely funding movements with fewer handoffs and execution issues.
  • Improve forecast accuracy through stronger assumptions, data validation, driver analysis, and program-team engagement.
  • Build trusted, standardized, AI-augmented reporting that reduces manual effort and enables more strategic analysis.
  • Improve adoption and usefulness of Future of Finance reporting and planning capabilities for PIM stakeholders.
  • Convert AI and reporting insights into actions that improve business outcomes.
  • Deliver measurable process improvements that benefit the broader finance and manufacturing organization.
  • Strengthen engagement among program teams, MIMs, ME Chiefs, Global Capital Management, GBS, and Future of Finance partners.


Location: Hybrid. This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the - Global HQ Warren MI three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business]

Relocation: This role is NOT eligible for relocation benefits.

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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