Vehicle Systems Engineering - Operations Analyst

What you'll do: Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, and prepare and manage financial reporting for VSE leadership, including updating forecasts, tracking purchase orders, and ensuring goods received and invoices are in place. Slides (create clear financial summaries with variance explanations, comparison tables, waterfalls, Pareto charts, and other visual storylines for technical and executive audiences).

JOB TITLE: Vehicle Systems Engineering - Operations Analyst
LOCATION: Foster City, CA (Onsite)
PAY RANGE: $42 - $52/hr.
DURATION: 6 Months

Job Description:
We have set the goal of providing our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will work with vehicle engineering and purchasing managers to create a budget forecast and determine the status of the organization s budget. Your efforts will help ensure accurate and timely spend reporting, which will enable improved decision-making and accelerated project advancement.

What you'll do:

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, and prepare and manage financial reporting for VSE leadership, including updating forecasts, tracking purchase orders, and ensuring goods received and invoices are in place
• Be the go-to person for all topics related to the Vehicle System Engineering Budget
• Provide regular status reports on budget actuals versus forecast, and adjust forecasts for the remainder of the budget year
• Align with the Finance Controllers on status and resolve potential gaps, and support answering open questions around the budget.
• Assist with process improvement initiatives to drive improvements in reporting tools.

Responsibilities:

• Keep budget actuals and forecast up to date
• Align budget status with each of the budget owners
• Update financial forecast for the department
• Create regular status reports

Qualifications:

• Financial management degree and 8+ years of hands-on relevant experience.
• Project management skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Productivity & Financial Systems Know-How:
• SAP (track orders, goods receipts, invoice flow)
• Excel (pivot tables, macros)
• Sheets (shared dashboards, permissions, version control)
• Slides (create clear financial summaries with variance explanations, comparison tables, waterfalls, Pareto charts, and other visual storylines for technical and executive audiences)

BENEFITS SUMMARY: Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.

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