Finance & Business Modelling Manager

Finance & business modelling Manager

Unlimited

MATERI’ACT Lyon

FORVIA has launched a new business MATERI’ACT (M’ACT) to design, industrialize and produce cutting-edge sustainable materials for automotive-compliant processes and products. This activity will build a competitive advantage to FORVIA’s Business Groups (including Hella’s), by providing privileged access to sustainable materials displaying competitive costs, outstanding sustainability (life cycle footprint and EU taxonomy alignment) and automotive-grade properties (product and process). In addition this business will supply the full automotive industry (OEMs and Tiers-n) and other industries as much as possible.

This business is reporting to FIS (Faurecia Interiors System) and running out of Lyon, France, in its HQ & “Tech Center”.

The Finance & Business Modelling Manager is responsible coordinating the closing process across all activities during month-end periods & for building and modelling the business plans of the markets we would like to address the rest of the time. She/He builds the reporting to be presented to management to track month over month performance and associated action plans. She/He builds the business plan (P&L and Cash-Flow) by collecting the datapoint information such as market, volumes, geographies, price, variable and fixed headcounts, manufacturing costs, capex/amortization, energy consumptions, DOH/DPO/DSO requirements… that will ultimately fuel the long term strategy with concrete actions. In coordination with the relevant Product Lines Directors / Managers, she/he brainstorms to find business partners and investors and / or alternative ways or options to secure the business and reduce the upfront investment when needed. She/he prepares the presentations to defend the case to in-house and external stakeholders. She/he supports in identifying partners and setting-up cooperation agreements with them.

The main missions of the role, in full compliance with Code of Ethics and Code of Management, are to:

• Preparing month-end closing presentation and action plans to upper management
• Participate in the construction of the Division’s strategy and its implementation, notably through the annual Strategic Planning process and cross-functional strategic projects (product strategy & portfolio expansion, market entry strategy, etc.)
• Support the Product Lines Management in modellizing the financial projections of business and technology partnerships, including, where relevant, acquisitions and joint ventures, in collaboration with the business unit and the group, as well as participate in building effective ecosystems,
• Benchmark competitors behaviors and products
• Build flexible business plans (P&L and Cash Flow Statement) disclosing all considered assumptions to be able to fine-tune them and make them evolve as the understanding of the value chain unfolds
• Understand and accordingly define the proper market price / price breakdown and associated margins
• Challenge research and pre-development costs and cash equations
• Check the conversion of operating margin into operational cash and the associated financing approach
• Support the Funding Manager by providing requested financial projections as part of public funding processes (ADEME, BPI etc.)
• Perform financial calculation (IRR, NPV, ROCE….) to support the go / NoGo of a business
• Prepare sensitivities analysis
• Update very regularly underlying assumptions as well as Risk and Opportunities to improve margins and cash equations
• Prepare comprehensive presentations adapted to Board members
• Communicate and explain assumptions and results with various stakeholders: Upper management, Sales & Programs, Product Lines, Purchasing, HR, Finance and Strategy
• Others
• Have the means to create your own tools and ways of working
• Have the willingness and experience to challenge and improve them
• Open to create your own scope of accountabilities

Qualifications :

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Business School or Engineering background with a Finance degree or Masters Degree in Finance
• Minimum 5/10 years experience preferrably including big four transaction services or business analyst background, investment banking and/or strategy consulting with a strong focus on growth strategy assignments
• Comprehensive understanding of Financial KPIs (IRR, NPV, ROIC, WCR…) and agility to go from P&L to Cash
• Entrepreneurial spirit, ability to take initiatives
• Ability to manage uncertainty and resist to stakeholder pressure
• Willingness to shape one’s scope of accountabilities
• Ability to invent and implement effective changes to improve performance
• Demonstrated strong communication, analytical and synthesis skills
• Business acumen and ability to seize business opportunities with a factual approach
• A deep interest in innovation, services and products
• Fluent in 2 languages including English
• Experience in the automotive/mobility/energy sector is a plus

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