Senior Analyst, Finance-Commercial

Motherson

$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in accounting and finance within large multinational companies
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
  • Experience in building scalable tools and dashboards
  • Proven track record in developing pricing and profitability models
  • Experience in supporting commercial strategies and negotiations
  • Strong integrity and financial judgment
  • Ability to establish trust across the organization
  • Willingness to challenge conventional thinking
  • Strategic thinker, detail-oriented execution
  • Strong communication skills at all organizational levels

Responsibilities

  • Assist in establishing scalable commercial finance processes.
  • Develop trusted advisor relationships with leadership.
  • Partner cross-functionally to drive data-backed decisions.
  • Challenge assumptions for profitability and long-term value.
  • Provide financial support for pricing and quoting activities.
  • Conduct customer profitability analysis and scenario modeling.
  • Support capital expenditure requests and business case development.
  • Develop budgeting and forecasting sales assumptions.
  • Review financial terms in contracts and manage associated risks.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a complex, multinational environment
  • Collaborative cross-functional team environment
  • Role that fosters strategic thinking and influence
  • Chance to develop valuable analytics and financial modeling skills
  • Engaging work in commercial risk management and decision-making
Full Job Description
Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Commercial Finance Function Support
  • Assist with establishing scalable commercial finance processes and systems to support growth and increasing complexity
  • Develop into a trusted financial advisor to commercial and operational leadership

Cross-Functional Business Partnership
  • Partner with Sales, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Plant Controllers, and Accounting to drive data-backed decision-making
  • Challenge assumptions and advocate for profitability, value realization, and long-term returns

Customer Pricing & Quoting
  • Financial support of customer pricing and quoting activities, including:
    • Preparation of pricing models, templates, and customer presentations
    • Cost-to-produce analysis and full profitability modeling
    • Development of customer "next-best alternatives" / understanding market pricing and competitive analysis
    • Scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis
  • Review, validate, track, and approve pricing changes
  • Develop quotes and deliverables in within expected timeframe, based on project size and complexity
  • Support win/loss analysis and capture commercial intelligence from quoting activity

Business & Commercial Analytics & Systems
  • Analyze customer, product, and segment profitability to identify margin leakage and cost improvement opportunities
  • Evaluate raw material exposure, material cost percentages, and timing/lag impacts between revenue and costs
  • Analyze monthly and YTD performance (volume, price, and material) versus Budget / Prior Year
  • Lead or support development of data models, profitability databases, and Power BI dashboards
  • Support development of Customer Relationship Management tools (like Salesforce.com)

Capital & Business Case Development
  • Create Commercial and special-project capital expenditure requests (CERs)
  • Build robust financial models evaluating project returns, risks, and alternatives
  • Partner with operations and engineering on investment prioritization

Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Support development of sales assumptions including volume, pricing, mix, and material costs
  • Partner with Finance and Commercial teams through budgeting and forecasting cycles
  • Prepare executive-level presentation materials and management insights

Contract Management & Commercial Risk
  • Review and advise on financial terms, pricing mechanisms, and commercial clauses within customer contracts
  • Summarize key financial risks and opportunities in commercial agreements
  • Assist with ongoing management and enforcement of critical contract terms (e.g., pricing adjustments, surcharges, volume commitments, etc.)
  • Develop "gold standard" financial contract clauses

Qualifications, Skills & Experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in accounting and finance roles within large, complex multinational organizations.
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling capabilities
  • High systems aptitude; experience building scalable tools and dashboards
  • Proven experience developing pricing, cost-to-produce, and profitability models
  • Experience supporting commercial strategy, negotiations, and customer decision-making
  • High integrity with strong financial judgment
  • Ability to build trust and strong relationships across the organization
  • Willingness to challenge the status quo and act as a constructive "devil's advocate"
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to operate deeply in execution and detail
  • Comfortable influencing and communicating at all levels of the organization

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