Assistant Manager, Financial Planning - American Honda Motor Co Inc

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. 

 At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

This role supports PST’s four division leads and its 80+ cost center managers with budgeting, forecasting, accounting / finance, manpower tracking, capital investment along with SAP, and other corporate tasks. The Assistant Manager manages a team of four associates and temps to achieve 100% of targeted spend and investment. The team is expected to track and calculate ROI, IRR and ROS for all activities within Parts, Service, Planning & Customer Relations and Technical divisions. Parts, Service and Technical division, the Finance and Administration department is responsible for all tracking, monitoring and reporting of financial matters for the operations.  With over $800M in inventory and over $4B in annual sales, there are a multitude of financials that are monitored on a daily basis.

Manage P,S & T operations’ budget, finances, capital expenditures, shopping carts, impacts to P&L to level one tree objectives relating to Parts profitability of $1.1B and ROS through meticulous management / tracking of details / calculations of IRR/ROI/NPV/ P&L items etc. Trains and provides guidance to Financial Analyst and Sr. Financial Analyst on their deadlines to achieve monthly reporting deadlines.
 

Key Accountabilities

• Meet on-going accounting close cycles (accruals, billings and adjustments) expense request, budget and forecast deadlines
• Calculate, verify shopping cart charts used to gain approval from BUH’s & Div Heads; AVP and SVP will use to ultimately present and gain CEO’s approval
• Direct completion of monthly management reports which include corporate, and internal management reports 
• Budget preparation of divisional expenses throughout the fiscal year for each forecast
• Support 80 cost center managers in budget (on-going), purchase requisitions., and other finance and admin related activities (Parts, Service, Planning & CR, Technical divisions)
• Ad-hoc research and reporting that impacts the Parts P&L
• List of some of the deliverables: (Monthly closing of the books, divisional expenses (internal budget reports) variance and fluctuation analysis, shopping cart charts / analysis,  
   

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Bus Admin / Accounting / Finance & or related fields such as operations management or math; or MBA Preferred 
• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in a global / international company with experience and knowledge in Warehousing; distribution; logistics; dealership; service operations; strategic planning & / or customer relations
• 3+ years related supervisory experience in Logistics operations, Pricing, Strategy, Financial Planning, Accounting or related field
• Experience evaluating existing processes and recommending enhancements
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills (pivot table; advanced modelling skills)
• Database query and parts specific knowledge
• 3+ years of Parts, Service, CR, Strategy and / or Technical business ops experience
• Planning & organizing with results orientation focus
• Strong written and oral communication, analytical and interpersonal skills required
• Handle deadlines and work independently (self-starter)

Workstyle

• Onsite

Benefits and Total Rewards

What differentiates Honda and makes us an employer of choice?

 Total Rewards:

•    Competitive base salary 

Pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, education, etc.
•    Annual Bonus

•    Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision)

•    Paid time off, including vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and personal days

•    401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

 Career Growth:

•    Advancement opportunities

•    Career mobility 

•    Education reimbursement for continued learning

•    Training and Development programs

 Additional Offerings:

•    Wellbeing program

•    Community service and engagement programs

•    Product programs

•    Free drinks onsite

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.