SR Global Finance Transformation Manager at Cooper Standard in Northville, Michigan

Job description

• The Senior Global Finance Transformation Manager will provide strategic financial and business insights that support both near-term operational performance and long-term decision-making for our Sealing business. This role will partner closely with the Vice President of Finance and other senior leaders to translate complex financial and operational data into meaningful business insights, evaluate alternative scenarios, strengthen forecasting and planning, and support strategic initiatives. The position will also play an important role in advancing Finance capabilities through analytics, technology, automation, and improved processes.
• Success in this role requires a strong combination of financial acumen, analytical capability, business partnership, and executive-level communication. The ideal candidate will be comfortable moving beyond reporting what happened to explaining why it happened, what is likely to happen next, and what actions the business should consider.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Vice President of Finance and senior business leaders across the Sealing organization on financial, operational, systems, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide timely financial and operational performance insights through daily, weekly, monthly, and periodic reporting and analysis.
• Analyze performance against budget, prior year, forecast, quote, and outlook; identify underlying drivers and assess potential impact on full-year operating performance.
• Develop financial models, scenario analyses, and key financial metrics to support strategic initiatives, product-line decisions, and business alternatives.
• Support annual operating plans, forecasting, long-range strategic planning, and consolidation of financial results.
• Apply advanced analytics, statistical methods, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to improve forecasting accuracy and strengthen decision-making.
• Partner with commercial, operational, and Finance teams to support strategic business planning, cost management, optimization, historical performance analysis, and forecasting.
• Help establish a data-driven decision-making environment by improving the accessibility, transparency, and usefulness of financial and operational information.
• Support merger and acquisition activities, including financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, and coordination with external advisors and investment banking partners, as appropriate.
• Support strategic initiatives, capital investments, restructuring activities, and other business cases through financial modeling, scenario analysis, and assessment of potential returns.
• Prepare and deliver financial and strategic materials for senior leadership, including the Global Leadership Team and Board of Directors, as appropriate.
• Develop structured financial frameworks and analyses to support review and approval of significant initiatives.
• Support the Finance organization’s transformation roadmap by identifying opportunities to improve systems, reporting, tools, processes, and analytical capabilities.
• Reduce manual reporting and improve the connection between transaction-level data and financial results through automation, analytics, and technology.
• Advance Finance capabilities from traditional reporting toward increasingly predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Science, Analytics, or a related field required.
• 7-10+ years of relevant professional experience; experience within a global or complex organization preferred.
• Strong financial and operational accounting knowledge.
• Demonstrated experience with strategic planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial performance analysis.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including experience developing valuation and investment models such as DCF, IRR, and WACC.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and operational information, identify underlying business drivers, and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, formulas, data manipulation, advanced functions, and pivot tables.
• Experience with financial analytics and business intelligence tools. Knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud/SAP BI, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar platforms preferred.
• Experience applying statistical techniques, advanced analytics, or emerging technologies to financial analysis and decision-making preferred.
• Experience supporting strategic initiatives, M&A, capital investment, restructuring, or other complex business cases preferred.
• Experience improving or re-engineering Finance processes, reporting, systems, or analytical capabilities preferred.
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
• Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and a high degree of initiative.
• Demonstrated integrity, transparency, and accountability.

Skills

Required

• Strong analytical skills
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong executive presence
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity
• Sound judgment
• High degree of initiative