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Shop Finance Supervisor

Responsible for the accounting close/reconciliation, planning/forecasting and reporting/analysis of local Repair Shop Operations. Partner with the local Shop Leadership and pertinent functions at Corporate (Equipment, Finance, and Supply Chain) to work towards these objectives. Work collaboratively with internal TTX departments to create and manage value-added reporting as well as track against key performance indicators (KPIs) as they relate to shop production, labor and overhead expenses.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide budget leadership, decision support & financial insight to the Shop Leadership. Work directly with leadership to make informed business decisions, evaluate budgets, and drive business improvement.
• Lead, develop and manage all Finance functions and personnel (as applicable) at local Repair Shop Operations. Maintain a culture of effective controls, meaningful analytics, strong operational support and efficient processes.
• Bring expertise in competitive intelligence, best practices, financial analysis and deep data analysis to bear on developing and overseeing the initiation of strategic recommendations.
• Ensure the delivery of timely and accurate monthly accounting close and financial and operational reports. Maintain monthly account reconciliations.
• Inform the design and development of relevant dashboard metrics and financial models to execute trend and variance analysis of key financial metrics and KPIs related to local shop performance.
• Provide day-to-day support and assistance related to financial systems as well as ad hoc analysis as needed

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Shifts analyses between Excel and analytical data tools
• Data Manipulation: Skills to change and organize data by applying logic and calculations to make the resulting dataset easier to read and present.
• Maintains proficiency with tools and statistical modeling techniques (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Hyperion, Essbase and Business Objects)
• Assists non-financial partners in interpreting complex analyses
• Challenges investment assumptions used to develop metrics (e.g., IRR, NPV, ROI, etc.)
• Discovers new and interesting patterns across data sets using cluster analysis, dependencies, and anomaly detection
• Leverages data mining techniques to forecast future trends and probabilities
• Data Storytelling: Skills to build a narrative around a set of data and its related visualizations to convey the findings from the analysis and allowing individuals to understand complex aspects and use them to take action against the issues.
• Develops and integrates budgets for multiple functional areas
• Applies a broad range of analytical techniques to identify business issues, opportunities and risks
• Works with multiple, inconsistent data sets from across the organization
• Applies a wide variety of advanced statistical, mathematical, and market research techniques
• Analyzes and reports performance metrics to management
• Uses Financial Systems
• Data Interpretation: Skills to correctly extract, analyze and intuit meaningful information or data from the various data sources such as structured and unstructured dataset, charts, tables, graphs, etc.
• Constructs financial models
• Builds clear, accurate, and repeatable forecast models
• Extracts insight from disparate sources of data
• Data Visualization: Skills to present data in a pictorial or graphical format to enable decision makers to see analytics presented visually and grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns.
• Understands and applies costing techniques

PREFERRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Generates statistical models that can capture and quantify risks and opportunities
• Evaluates tradeoffs within a diverse portfolio of existing and proposed growth projects
• Generates reports with customized data parameters to aid decision making
• Data Bias Detection: Skills to identify bias that occurs during data source identification, data collection and data processing, which could later feed into the ML's training model.
• Maintains familiarity and ability to use mass database skills
• Ensures assumptions underlying performance targets are well-grounded in reality while driving for stretch results
• Process Mapping: Skills to visually describe using flowcharts the detailed flow of a process.
• Ensures alignment between operating budget and strategic plan
• Synthesizes and simplifies financial and non-financial data
• Change Management: Ability to help deal people and teams with the transition or transformation of an organization’s or function’s goals, processes, tools or technologies.
• Monitors accuracy and predictive validity of existing models forecast)
• Uses machine learning techniques
• Data Quality Management: Skills to use metadata, reference data, application logs, data catalogs and technologies (e.g., ML, knowledge graphs, NLP) to search for data, identify and fix mistakes, ensure validity, and sync with raw dataset.
• Identifies metrics that drive performance against strategic priorities
• Streamlines business reviews to focus management on the most critical risks and opportunities
• Designs end-to-end models, which include identifying objectives, sampling, testing, calibration, and monitoring performance
• Monitors and communicates budget performance against pre-set targets
• Legacy Process and Systems familiarity: Ability to help deal people and teams with the transition or transformation of an organization’s or function’s goals, processes, tools or technologies.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to write complex reports, investment business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Working knowledge of business processes, financial modeling, and systems-oriented FP&A experience, including the ability to create and support financial / investment recommendations using common financial metrics (e.g. WACC, ROI, NPV, IRR, etc.)
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists as well as more abstract issues and solutions
• Bachelors in Finance, Economics, Management or Accounting; Masters and / or CPA preferable but not required
• Strong interpersonal skills in particular able to engage comfortably with senior executives and remain poised and articulate under stressful interactions; skilled at operating in a matrix reporting relationship
• Experience with Oracle ERP and EPM could preferred
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and self-organize then follow-through on multiple sometimes heavy simultaneous projects
• Over 5 years of financial analysis, general accounting and/or FP&A experience, with preferred background in an Operational Finance or Shop Accounting

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

(The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

General office environment; may be required to travel. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit (remain stationary within work area) and use hands to finger, handle, feel, and reach. The employee is occasionally required to move about (stand, walk). The employee must occasionally lift and/or transport up to 10 pounds. Correctable vision required for close, distance, and color vision capabilities.

The above job description is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.