About the Role
Responsible for Open Book Costing for Electric Vehicle (EV) Business.
Reporting to: Manager, Operations Finance (Singapore), dotted line reporting to EV Sales Director (US)
Responsibilities
- Responsible for key Electric Vehicle (EV) business quotes and costing, ensuring that inputs for quotes are submitted accurately.
- Prepare and maintain open book costing for each required customer quotes in a timely manner.
- Engaging with Sales Director and customer to support commercial decision making.
- Co-ordinating with internal stakeholders (Sourcing, Quote Team and Engineering) to drive faster turnaround quotation
- Create costing worksheet accurately and reflect each cost components cost based on assumptions for review with management.
- Develop and implement documents, processes, procedures and structures that ensure compliance and consistency across the business.
- Able to gather and interpret the costing sheet provided by RFQ team and analyses variances with relevant team members.
- Able to conduct detailed analysis to evaluate the historic pricing, BoM, cycle times and margin trends (current vs previous) and the product & price changes between multiple quotes.
- Maintain and develop key performance measures and tracking systems on changes and key assumptions on each customer's quote.
- Recommend pricing adjustments to enhance product profitability based on the analysis.
- Act as primary interface between Sales and Quoting team (in different time zone) to report daily status of pending quotes to management and ensure proper follow ups done.
- Present information clearly and effectively to management.
- Builds strong working relationships with R&D, Finance, and Operations partners and management.
- Able to generate quick turnaround manual quotes with Engineering & price changes and one-off request.
- Perform any other related projects/tasks as the need arises by the management.
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Data Science or other related field
Required Skills
- Minimum of 3-5 years experience in the similar environment.
- Strong analytical, financial skills and critical thinking abilities, with capacity to interpret complex data.
- Good communication skills in terms of presentation, documentation, and verbal communication, along with a positive attitude for teamwork.
- Fluency in English to communicate with various teams regionally and globally.
- Excellent analytical skills, supported by solid attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficiency in excel especially in complex formulas, macros and BI
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in different time zones.
- Background in Costing or RFQ working environment will be an added advantage
- Business analytics and/or programming skills or advanced Microsoft Office skills, or experience with analytical tools, models and methods for making key business decisions.
