FORD KARRIER

Areas of responsibilities:

• Develop controlling related schedules and analysis (Actuals, Forecasts, Budget, etc.)
• Working in a small team reporting to the Finance Supervisor
• Control and prepare schedules relating to monthly reporting of expenses and revenues.
• Work on monthly closes, account reconciliations and forecasts.
• Analyze volumes, variable marketing incentives, fixed marketing expenses, operating expenses and other revenue account actuals to explain variances versus budget and forecasts.
• Assist in preparing the annual budget, business and operating plans.
• Prepare program approval papers along with the Fleet, Sales and Marketing teams.
• Provide general Financial support to other departments (both regular and ad hoc)
• Internal Control coordination
• Implement pricing proposals (dealer pricelists, invoicing system, dealer claims)
• Checking pricing proposals (incl. Promotional/Fleet activities)

Requirements:

• Business/Finance/Economics University Degree
• 0-3 years work experience in a Finance Department
• Fluency in English
• Good communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Result-oriented, hard working with a pro-active 'can do' attitude
• Good understanding of balance sheet and income statement
• Strong IT skills, especially Excel

Areas of responsibilities:

• support the implementation of new finance systems on financial variance analysis
• testing and identifying differences compared to existing systems and enhance calculation methodology
• supporting the existing Finance Analysts with ad-hoc tasks as required

Requirements:

• outstanding analytical skills and structured thinking
• interest in finance
• automotive interest
• ongoing or completed higher education (university / college) studies
• fluent English
• experienced user of MS-Office (proficient in the use of Excel)
• attention to detail
• good problem solving skills
• collaboration skills
• good communication and relationship building skills

Working hours: 40 hours / week

Areas of responsibilities:

• Reporting
• Provide daily volume reporting
• Create weekly and on-demand forecasts and FCSD-E reports
• Provide weekly FCSD-E management with EOC and global reports
• Development of new reports for better business control
• Coordinate and consolidate dealer inventory reporting on an NSC basis

Forecasting and analysis

• Prepare monthly Risk&Opps Forecast meeting with senior FCSD-E management team resulting in monthly Sales Forecast
• Develop Sales Business Plan for FCSD-E Marketing in close cooperation with Finance, Regional Office and Business Units supporting July and December BoD (Board of Directors) submission including alignment with the Global Revenue Management Team
• Develop FCSD-E Sales Budget and provide monthly calendarization based on historical experience and future strategic trends
• Monitor economic environment and technical developments like accident avoidance techniques. Estimate potential influence on part sales and include effects in the forecast process
• Drive investigations to identify potential volume risks, advanced forecast tools and enhanced reporting to support the FCSD leadership team in strategic decisions within the Business Plan and Budget Process as well as in the running year Analysis of parts sales specific volume factors such as quality improvement, price position, etc. in cooperation with the relevant departments
• Align planning assumptions with management, NSCs and finance
• Improve current procedures and develop new methodologies for daily volume forecast per market
• Perform regular best practice reviews with global and other CBGs sales planning functions to further improve processes and methodologies
• Provide all regular and once-off sales volume related information and presentation slides to support BPR and other Senior Management meetings

Business ownership and IT programs

• Create relevant UiO information for Europe and NSCs
• Ownership of the IT Systems of SP & A Suite, DCD
• European part of IBIS is co-owned with FCSD-E Profit Analysis

Requirements:

• University degree in Economics/Business, Engineering or equivalent education
• 3 years years of experience in Marketing/Sales
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, experience in cross-functional collaboration
• Strong numerical, analytical and problem solving skills; ability to proactively progress an issue, develop options and recommendations and see through to resolution
• Strong business and customer focus oriented mindset
• Well-developed IT skills – Advanced end-user applications skills in MS Office (e.g.Excel, Word, Access, Power Point, Project)
• Excellent English language skills, both spoken and written

Areas of responsibilities:
Variable Marketing (VM) Proposal Approval Process

• Administrate the approval routine of VM proposals
• Check VM proposals for completeness and initiate review and approval process in line with approval rules
• Check funding availability and financial viability jointly with Finance
• Distribution of VM proposals to other departments (Supply Chain Management , Marketing Business Units, Legal), follow-up and consolidation of feedback
• Status tracking and escalation if required
• Consolidation of VM forecast

Special Deal (SD) Approval Process

• Administrate the approval routine for Special Deals
• Check SDs, adjust requested discounts per part based on profitability
• Perform approval process in line with approval rules
• Check funding availability and financial viability jointly with Finance
• Check parts availability with Supply Chain Management and adjust SD content accordingly
• Status tracking and escalation if required

VM Analysis

• Cross check of VM program financial assumptions at program submission and after program closure for selected programs
• Ad hoc analysis of sales volume and VM spend using IT systems (e.g.Business Reporting System (IBIS), Parts Pricing System (GPARTS))

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in economics/business or similar degree
• Good skills in usage of MS Office
• Experience in Marketing/Sales
• Analytical and communication abilities
• Good level of persuasiveness and diplomacy
• Excellent English language skills, both spoken and written

Roles and responsibilities:

• Assess the effectiveness of the control environment put in place by operational management and identify areas of non-compliance with Corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct business interviews to document key business process control points.
• Use analytical techniques to identify and quantify risks to the Company.
• Review control weaknesses with operational management to ensure acceptance and understanding. Advise potential corrective actions to be taken by operating management.
• Follow-up on corrective actions taken by operating management related to audits and self-assessment findings assessed as major. Ensure that action plans are appropriate and timely and approve closure of corrective actions after verifying sustainable implementation.
• Lead a number of audits (fair share across the audit team): responsible for preplanning the audit for Audit Manager and Audit Director approval; coordinate the development of auditee communication material and lead the communication effort; prepare and publish the final audit report. This involves taking full responsibility for all aspects of the audit and coordinating the audit team’s activity.
• Lead or support departmental or Global project initiatives including process improvements.

Requirements:

• Audit experience (either internal or external audit) would be beneficial though not required.
• Ideally a Degree or its equivalent.
• Leadership skills with proven experience of team and project management.
• Personal characteristics that include: highly-motivated self-starter who can work independently without direct supervision; good and personable team player; ability to work effectively and deliver to tight deadlines whilst ensuring process discipline; strong business acumen and analytical skills (experience of Excel, Access and PeopleSoft would be of benefit); ability to communicate clearly, concisely and candidly in both verbal and written form. Courage to do the right thing.
• Strong English language skills (both written and spoken). Any other language skills such as German are an advantage but not a requirement.

Additional Information:

• Travel – As the role covers Ford’s business across Europe, a very high level of travel is required. Around 75% of the calendar year would be spent outside of Hungary – many audit locations would require travel from Hungary on a Monday morning, returning on Friday afternoon. Weekend stays are not normally expected although may be necessary for some logistically challenging locations such as Turkey and Russia. The GAO central office is located in Warley, Brentwood, Essex, UK.
• Training – GAO specific auditor starter training will be provided on joining the GAO. Team members will provide further support. Ongoing personal development and training includes IIA and ACCA support, coaching and continuous feedback and other planned training and team building events.

What we offer:

• Young and vibrant team
• Continuous challenges and great opportunities to grow
• Career opportunities
• Competitive salary
• Shuttle bus service between local train station and the office 

Areas of responsibilities:

• Support marketing/incentive programme setup in dedicated system (MPS2) including programme writing, testing and checking against original intent of business paper
• Communicate with Marketing/Sales/Finance/Campaigns Management Team to be aware of all key issues relevant to Variable Marketing programmes and incentive payments
• Control dealer payments, check the vehicle’s eligibility for Incentive/Variable Marketing Programmes
• Administer and process payment queries
• Assist Campaigns Management/Marketing/Sales/Finance with preparing sales and payment reports
• Carry out ad-hoc tasks in relation with the above

Required Skills/Experience:

• Excellent communication/relationship building skills
• Persistent attitude, monotony tolerance – excellent administrative skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Well-developed IT skills in MS Office (e.g. Excel, Word, Access, Power Point, Project)
• Strong business and customer focus
• Attention to detail
• Team player
• Ongoing or finished Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Marketing or other related fields
• Fluency in English

What we offer:

• Continuous challenges and great opportunities to grow
• Career opportinities
• Competitive salary
• Shuttle bus service between local train station and the office

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Fluency in any other European language is an advantage but not a pre-requisite to fill the position

Areas of responsibilities:
This person as a member of the Campaigns Management Operations Team would be responsible for supporting the European National Sales Companies (Ford subsidiaries) and Management with reports on marketing incentive programmes and payments to Ford Dealers.

REPORTING, ANALYSIS AND EFFICIENCY OPTIMISATION

• Analysis of incentive programmes and payments, sales volumes and shares driven by marketing campaigns
• Maintain custom reports
• Review reports prepared by Reporting specialist or the Business Support team
• Support Reporting Specialist in ad hoc reports

Requirements:

• Basic SQL and VBA knowledge
• Advanced Excel skills
• Fluency in English
• Structured thinking, excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Accuracy with the ability to comply with deadlines
• Ongoing or finished Bachelor’s or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Applied Economics, Economic Analysis, Mathematics or IT

Roles and responsibilities:

• Control and manage actual reporting, monthly forecasts, annual budgets, cycle plans and Board of Director updates relating to Capital Spending / Engineering Expense
• Daily interface with operating management around the globe to establish and manage forecasts
• Prepare variance analysis on an issue to issue basis and versus budget
• Prepare and present monthly management decks to senior management and support ad-hoc schedules, special studies
• Provide general financial support to other departments (both regular and ad hoc)
• Ensure that an appropriate business process and system control environment is maintained in line with Corporate Guidelines
• Lead a team of 2-5 people, organisation planning including the support of annual people planning (objectives, performance reviews etc.)

Requirements:

• Business/Finance/Economics/Accounting University Degree
• 3+ years of supervisory experience
• Fluency in English – verbal and written
• Good communication and team work skills
• Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking skills
• Good understanding of financial statements (balance sheet and income statement)
• Strong IT skills

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Career opportunities
• International and diverse team
• Continuous challenges and great opportunities to grow
• Travel opportunities

Areas of responsibilities:

• Manage Facility and Tooling (F&T) Investment for ‘Product’ programs.
• Write the PAR paper in conjunction with the program teams, and gain approval from the required signatories.
• Set up projects in PCAM and ensure funds are established as per approval. Process post PA CRs and adjust funds in line with Design Changes.
• Proactively manage PCAM project closure – look ahead at a 3-month window. Drive Uncommitted Funds review.
• Handle Prolongation Requests as appropriate.
• Handle the F&T change management, eg: updating funds for tools or loading funds for new tools in PCAM

Spending Forecast

• Support the Investment Supervisor where required.
• Job 1 Job Last review
• RS&W/Hyperion Forecast support (PMM, SoMP)
• Forecast reviews

Support Fixed Assets meeting initiatives

• Action the tasks assigned from the meetings, such as closing open tool orders aged more than 2 years etc.
• Support PWC Audit
• Support PWC audit where the audit subject concerns F&T management.
• Conduct MCRP testing
• Conduct MCRP testing where the testing subject concerns F&T management.

Requirements:

• University / College degree
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Deep knowledge in MS Office especially Excel
• Strong analytical skills
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively without excessive management intervention
• Ability to multitask, good time management skills, attention to deadlines
• Ability to establish and maintain good business relationship
• Problem solving skills

Roles and responsibilities:

• Manage marketing/incentive programme setup in dedicated system (MPS2) including programme writing, testing and checking against original intent of business paper
• Effectively communicate with Marketing/Sales/Finance/Campaigns Management Team to be aware of all key issues
• Control dealer payments, check the vehicle’s eligibility for Incentive/Variable Marketing Programmes
• Administer and process payment queries
• Process modifications of retail data in the relevant Ford system
• Assist Campaigns Management/Marketing/Sales/Finance with reports to effectively manage the marketing programmes – prepare sales and payment reports
• Actively participate in developing new processes/templates
• Ensure compliance with corporate requirements (lnternal Control)

Requirements:

• Fluency in English
• Good command of Italian/Spanish is an advantage
• Persistent attitude, monotony tolerance - excellent administrative skills
• Accuracy, attention to detail, sense of priorities
• Good communication/relationship building skills, ability to work as part of a team
• Strong business and customer focus
• Analytical mindset, structured thinking, ability to understand and improve processes
• Ability to understand a marketing program
• Good Excel and Word knowledge
• Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing or other related fields
• Work experience in Marketing/Sales/Finance is a plus
• Occasional travel to European markets may be required

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Young and vibrant team
• Continuous challenges and great opportunities to grow
• Career opportunities
• Shuttle bus service between local train station  and the office

Roles and responsibilities:
Assigned Project / Software Testing Coordination/ Business Support:

• Plan and execute User Acceptance Tests in software test environments
• Participate in regular Agile software delivery ceremonies
• Active contribution to software development / defect resolution by close engagement with the assigned IT project teams
• Record test execution status updates with Agile delivery tracking tool
• Drive defect resolution to ensure timely interaction / release delivery
• Conducting regression and post-deployment testing
• Provide support / peer review for other test analysts involved in other projects
• Regularly review and update test plan and strategies with product owner
• Update System documentation when releasing changes in production environment

Requirements:

• Excellent English is a must
• Understand Agile methodology: experience in Software Development and/or Testing
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Relentless attention to detail
• Ability to work efficiently as part of a team across multiple countries and cultures and under time pressure
• Experience with testing automation is a plus
• Understanding of a test driven development is a plus