Description
At BrightDrop, we are reshaping e-commerce by developing smarter, greener, and more efficient ways to deliver goods and services to your door, while delivering a brighter future for the cities where we live. We are building an ecosystem of all-electric, zero-emissions delivery solutions – from electric vehicles, to ePallets and software that leverages real-time data to drive intelligent optimizations for e-commerce. To deliver on our mission we are growing fast and building a team, based in Palo Alto, with offices in Atlanta and Detroit, that is customer-focused, agile and passionate about innovating for a more sustainable future.
From engineering to product management and operations, BrightDrop is looking for people who can combine a passion for technology and sustainability with high doses of curiosity and rigorous thinking to deliver a better future.
Backed by General Motors, BrightDrop is striving to improve the communities where we live and deliver a better future for generations to come. We hope you’ll join us. https://www.gobrightdrop.com/
Come join the BrightDrop finance team as the leader of the Brightdrop budget and forecasting team. We are seeking a dynamic leader who wants to help BrightDrop deliver a carbon free future. You will need to partner with all areas within brightdrop and GM monthly to update forecasts provide variance explanations along with developing yearly budgets. You’ll also lead the development of our SAP cloud implementation into a world class application.
Core Responsibilities:
- Manage BrightDrop’s full P&L and cash flow for vehicle and non-vehicle businesses
- Manage the FP&A team and oversee monthly actuals/forecast analysis and financial variance explanations
- Drive the results for budget and forecast with business partners
- Approval and Review of spend/purchase requests facilitation throughout the month
- Review and analyze new contracts for financial impacts
- Manage business partners, customers and supplier relationships
- Development of our standalone SAP Cloud ERP implementation for BrightDrop
- Oversee the development of business requirements for Finance regarding sales, software as a service, purchasing, manufacturing, and product development
- Ad hoc analysis/projects
Additional Description
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ Years' experience in a similar role
- Experience leading a team of talented and experienced direct reports
- Bachelor's degree in related field
- Excellent communication skills-written and verbal
- System Development or Systems Implementation of SAP
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree
About GM
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