Finance Analyst – Operations
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Job Description
About Siemens:
Siemens is a global technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. They strive to create technology with purpose, focusing on resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, smarter buildings and grids, sustainable transportation, and advanced healthcare. They believe in empowering both their customers and employees, fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. Siemens Smart Infrastructure – eMobility specifically shapes the EV charging market with innovative technologies, aiming to create an open and accessible market for electric vehicles and secure grid connections to support EV adoption growth. They are committed to environmental sustainability and creating a cleaner, more efficient future.
Job Description: Finance Analyst – Operations (Smart Infrastructure eMobility, Raleigh, NC)
Siemens Smart Infrastructure eMobility is seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Finance Analyst – Operations to join their growing team in Raleigh, NC, supporting their new EV charger manufacturing facility. This role offers upward mobility within a fast-paced, expanding business and industry.
Responsibilities:
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Perform forecasting and reporting activities, including actual vs. plan variance analysis on P&L, Balance Sheet, and Free Cash Flow. Analyze periodic variances, draw conclusions, provide commentary, and implement actions for continuous improvement.
• Cost Accounting: Perform product costing, evaluate and analyze cost structures, maintain and improve cost accounting systems in SAP. Own and drive recurring processes to monitor balance sheet topics such as slow-moving inventory and implement improvement measures.
• Cost Savings Initiatives: Collaborate with procurement, materials management, and industrial engineering teams to drive continuous cost-saving measures.
• CAPEX Management: Track and evaluate CAPEX projects, including ROI analysis and post-implementation reviews with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion and accurate reporting of CAPEX spend.
• Performance Reporting & Presentations: Provide regular business reports on overall performance, recommend actions to factory management, prepare monthly factory KPIs, and support factory presentations for global management.
• Ad-hoc Analysis: Carry out ad-hoc analyses and profitability calculations.
• Digitalization Projects: Work on SAP and Power BI/Tableau digitalization projects to drive efficiency.
Qualifications:
• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Management; 1-3 years of experience (inclusive of internships) in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting; Knowledge of GAAP; Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and SAP; Experience in a manufacturing setting; Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to collaborate effectively across various functional departments and management levels; Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience using reporting automation and visualization tools (Knime, Power BI, Tableau, etc.); Self-starter with a growth mindset; Ability to identify opportunities and take actionable steps with minimal guidance; Comfortable working in a change management environment.
