Financial Analyst Job Description

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Financial Analyst

Canoo - Justin, TX

Job Purpose

The Finance Analyst is a key member of the Finance team, providing support to various functional areas within Canoo. This position involves establishing and maintaining working relationships with engineers, buyers, and managers to gather detailed input for forecasts and budgets, and to support management with analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

Lead forecast of resource requirements for business groups, including headcount, capital, and operating expenses
Work with business partners to understand processes and develop driver-based forecasts
Partner with accounting for period close analysis and group level reporting
Provide insight on spending variances and project level reporting to business partners
Coordinate capital expenditure tracking and related cash forecast across engineering teams
Support program management team on the BOM cost consolidation and analysis
Develop business models to determine "make vs. buy" decisions for manufacturing
Update weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports, including budget against actuals, and variance analysis for the specific departments or projects assigned
Update engineering projects' financial forecasts to provide best cashflow estimates
Work with engineering and purchasing teams to maintain the BOM cost forecast and cost improvement roadmap
Work with accounting and within finance to ensure purchase orders are appropriately accounted for by engineering project and department

Required Experience

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or engineering
Experience in the finance function, with responsibilities in forecasting, analysis, and reporting
Excel modeling experience

Preferred Experience

Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) programming
PowerBI, or proficiency in other visual reporting tools
Willing (and excited) to roll up their sleeves to dig through data, build ground up excel models, and do the work
Comfortable interacting with people of various backgrounds and levels - from first-year analysts to senior executives, sales, engineering, legal, etc.
Detail-oriented and data-driven, but can also understand the big picture and strategic elements of proposals
Resourceful and can figure out solutions where there may not be clear-cut systems or established methodologies

What's Cool About Working Here...

Flexible PTO
Participation in the Employee Equity Compensation Plan
Casual workplace with an unbelievable feeling of energy
Work in a high-growth start up that will redefine urban mobility

Canoo is an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, past or present military service or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)