Financial Analyst Leader

What's The Job

GHSP, headquartered in West Michigan, is a leading global supplier of mechanical and electromechanical systems to the automotive, transportation, and appliance industry. Reporting to the Director of Corporate Controlling, GHSP is currently looking for a Financial Analyst Leader to join our Corporate Finance team in Holland. (Onsite-Hybrid work options are available)

What You'll Do

The Financial Analyst Leader ensures credibility of the P&L by providing timely, accurate and a well researched analysis of budgets, trends, variances, and forecasting. The expectation of the Financial Analyst Leader is to oversee the annual budgeting process in order to best share knowledge and present recommendations to the Finance team on opportunities to streamline processes, making them more effective, accurate and efficient. This role requires communication at all levels of the organization; designing, conducting, interpreting, and presenting qualitative and quantitative analysis which is critical to our business. As the leader, the expectation is that you inquire, research, obtain and present new and creative ways to both analyze and drive the rationale behind the information we obtain and track.

Financial Reporting

• Responsible for capturing and presenting data to executive leaders on KPIS; providing insights and forecasts on the financial health of the organization as it pertains to corporate transactions and expenses.
• Ensure data is accurate, timely and that data integrity is safeguarded
• Drive initiatives and process improvements into the capturing and reporting of data; having the ability to define, dig, and solve with limited to no supervision.

Financial Analysis

• Summarize data and deliver to key leaders, informing business decisions.
• Develop and implement new methodologies for completing analysis of financial records.
• Ability to not only recognize problems or concerns with data and find appropriate solutions, but also drive initiatives to ensure these scenarios are deeply understood and proactively addressed.

Financial Planning& Forecasting

• Aggregate and synthesize data to identify trends in performance, ensuring data is updated, accurate, and aligns with the business needs/desires.
• Partner with the Controllers in the long and short term financial planning and budgeting for corporate functions including facility planning, inventory forecasting and overall budgeting.
  • Support includes sales, inventory, engineering labor and departmental expense accounts
• Responsible for presenting the final version of financial information pertaining to weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting and analysis.

Business Partnerships

• Partner with department heads to gather data, learn business processes, and collaborate on recommendations.
  • Guide business leaders towards process improvements that address gaps and concerns within their teams.
• As the Subject Matter Expert on the corporate controls team, appropriately delegate projects and tasks, while providing leadership to finance team members.

What You'll Get

Great people and great teams produce great outcomes for our customers and the communities where we do business. Joining the GHSP team, you'll get:

• An opportunity to work with team members who are driven by our four core values:
  • Earn Trust
  • Learn By Doing
  • Work Together
  • Steward Our Legacy
• Family health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Clean, temperature-controlled environments
• Opportunity to grow your career at a company committed to looking internally to fill open roles

Diversity Statement

GHSP's approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion starts with recognition that all employees have unique differences. This uniqueness creates strength if we embrace the lived experiences and help employees bring their authentic self to work every day. We want all employees to work in an environment that is safe, respected and empowering. As we welcome one another's differences, we have an incredible opportunity to strengthen our company culture while continuing to foster innovative thinking.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting and/or related field, required.
• Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting and/or related field, preferred
• 7+ years of Finance experience
• Manufacturing industry experience or equivalent, required.
• Automotive experience preferred.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Familiarity with ERP systems (QAD) and ability to understand roles outside of finance.
• Expert in spreadsheets, databases, and related computer skills