Reporting directly to the Material Cost Finance Manager, this position is based at our International Markets Group Product Development Centre, Campbellfield. This role operates under a hybrid work arrangement, requiring four days on-site.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Bill of Material (BoM) for Electrical & Power Supply commodities
• Provide financial support to Engineers and Programs Office in reviewing changes for approval and reporting risks and opportunities
• Complete review and analysis of proposed changes and supplier cost updates, prepare approval papers and ensure robust tracking of approved cost and investment changes
• Lead the setting up and monitoring of the financial targets and program budgets for Material Cost and Tooling
• Provide financial analysis to support cross-functional analysis including Purchasing, Program Finance and Engineering
• Support idea generation and tracking for cost/investment reduction to help achieve financial targets
• Develop and analyze business cases for design and sourcing changes, coordinating with operating partners to ensure successful review and closure and presenting recommendations to senior management and during program special attention sessions
• Lead financial reporting to Senior Management regarding financial status and variance explanations

Complete Bill of Material (BOM) reconciliations to confirm cost status and ensure robust financial reporting

Lead workstreams and processes to deliver Control Model Vehicle and Average Market/Region Material Cost reporting, including development and maintenance of feature cost walks and average Car Modelling.

Support the review of Market Equation inputs including scrubbing the Market Equations to ensure the costing and pricing assumptions are aligned.

Involvement in other related cost analysis work streams:

• Support business decisions on vehicle content through TARR and profitability analysis
• Ad hoc financial and business analysis to support program feature and content decisions
• Material Planning and Logistics (freight, duty, taxes)
• Sequencing cost analysis/tracking
• Bailment analysis/tracking
• Program Investment consolidation

Become Material Cost Finance SME on benchmarking tools with view of using data to lead and influence decision making.

Partner with VHM operation leads to manage lifecycle commodity costs, taking ownership of developing and maintaining comprehensive Lifecycle Cost Analysis for key commodities.

Lead material cost reporting for cost reduction initiatives for Chassis/Underbody and Electrical/Digital Tech commodities.

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