Snr Finance Manager

Tenneco is one of the world’s leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

 

As a member of a customer business team, the Account Finance Manager forms a critical and strategic finance business partnership with dual reporting to the Global Director, Commercial Finance or Regional Director of Finance with business partnership to the Global VP of the Customer Business Unit(s).  This role will lead all commercial and strategic financial processes and partner with the Global VP of the CBU to drive strategic, sustainable and predictable results that align with the Annual Operating Plan, three-year business plan, and five-year strategic CBU plan for Tenneco’s continued profitable growth.   

 

Job Responsibilities:

In this role, the successful candidate will perform the following:

• Develop Business Plans (Current & New), Capital Appropriation Requests, and business cases for analysis of Return on Investment, Return on Invested Capital, and Economic Value Add
• Develop proformas for new manufacturing facilities
• Develop competitive pricing strategies/quotations which will be submitted to our customer(s) and potential negotiation of pricing through customer costing models
• Work with a complex bill of material to understand and develop cost strategies for our products
• Work with a variety of manufacturing processes and related costs
• Attend project team meetings
• Follow-up and resolve financial issues to attain key financial measures
• Perform monthly global financial value added business analysis for senior management
• Explain product costs to our customer’s financial analysts
• Develop cost targets for suppliers based on customer & market data
• Control development spending and have direct involvement in spending and recovery initiatives for all applicable areas
• Initiate financial road-maps based on product cost reduction efforts
• Provide support for Month-end close and financial review analysis
• Execute financial strategy of the Global CBU
• Overall income statement and internal controls responsibility for the Global CBU
• Outstanding communication skills are essential for this position
• Direct customer interface (quote collaboration) preferred
• Mentoring and co