Finance Specialist

Financial Specialist

Location: Warrendale PA

Who are We?

The SAE Group proudly provides the aerospace, automotive, commercial vehicle, and medical devices industries along with the engineers and technical experts who work in them, with a robust and essential portfolio of innovative programs, products, and services. Pioneering engineering standards and developing capabilities for a better future.

SAE International® (SAEI) is a global organization serving the mobility sector, predominantly in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries, fostering innovation, and enabling engineering professionals. Since 1905, SAE has harnessed the collective wisdom of engineers around the world to create industry-enabling standards. Likewise, SAE members have advanced their knowledge and understanding of mobility engineering through our information resources, professional development, and networking.

The Performance Review Institute® (PRI) is the world leader in facilitating collaborative supply chain oversight programs, quality management systems approvals, and professional development in industries where safety and quality are shared values.

Through neutral, precompetitive forums and collaborative, technical communities, SAE Industry Technologies Consortia® (SAE ITC) enables organizations to define and pilot best practices. SAE ITC industry stakeholders are able to work together to effectively solve common problems, achieve mutual benefit for industry, and create business value.

Summary:

This position serves as a business partner with business unit managers for budget planning and forecasts, and handles projects involving the analysis of financial and non-financial data enabling managers to make appropriate financial decisions that directly affect SAE's net income.

Primary duties and responsibilities:

• Develops reports and analyses and presents recommendations to management regarding financial and/or operational performance including but not limited to productivity, operational statistics, cost trends, and revenue trends.

• Serves as a business partner/liaison with business unit managers for budget planning and forecasts by providing business analysis to enable management to make appropriate financial decisions.

• Advises and assists management in determining and defining the business impact (both operational and economic) on the operation of proposed systems, capital investments, and/or product changes. Prepares, reports on, and tracks, feasibility/profitability studies related to proposed corporate programs and strategies.

• Completes thorough analysis of budgets and actual results for business units to identify opportunities, anomalies, trends, and other relevant items that may impact performance of the business unit.

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Strong interest in career advancement
• Understanding of PowerBI
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• High attention to detail ensuring a high level of accuracy
• Knowledge of financial analysis metrics and methodologies (ROI, NPV, allocations, fixed/variable methodologies).
• Strong written and oral communication, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to analyze, review and make recommendations.
• Time management, organizational and multitasking skills.
• Strong understanding of Budgeting and Analysis.

EOE, including Disability / Vets