Ford Motor Company

Global Finance Headcount Analyst

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Oracle

About the role

  • You will provide critical headcount reporting and analysis, influencing strategic decisions across our diverse global enterprise.
  • This is a unique opportunity to lead the transformation of workforce analytics using big data and AI tools, improving processes and delivering deeper data insights to drive the business and optimize costs globally.
  • You will serve as a key finance business partner for HR headcount reporting, ensuring data integrity and strategic workforce planning.
  • Consolidate, analyze, and publish comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual headcount reports for global stakeholders, integrating data from diverse geographic regions and business segments.
  • Consolidate actual hourly and salary headcount data for 10K earnings reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance for global financial disclosures.
  • Maintain and optimize headcount data reporting hierarchies to match evolving organizational structures and requirements across all global legal entities.
  • Partner with HR and IT to drive process and structural changes in headcount reporting tools. Lead initiatives leveraging big data and AI to enhance reporting accuracy, automate processes, and provide predictive insights into global workforce trends.
  • Coordinate with management on headcount authority changes, providing financial insights and analysis to support global workforce decisions and strategic objectives.
  • Conduct timely, impactful ad-hoc personnel-related financial analyses, often involving multi-country data sets.
  • Communicate complex financial information and insights effectively to diverse global audiences, influencing decisions and fostering collaboration.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related analytical field.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across departments, ensuring data integrity and timely deliverables.
  • High degree of autonomy and accountability for managing multiple projects and assignments.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, explaining complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel skills
  • Understanding of data warehouse and query concepts.
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) and/or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification (even better).
  • Experience with global financial reporting or large-scale workforce planning data consolidation (even better).
  • Knowledge of and ability to learn large data tools such as Power Query and Power BI (even better).
  • Experience with Oracle HCM and SAP S/4HANA (even better).
  • Experience in process optimization or project management (even better).
  • Knowledge of workforce planning methodologies (even better).
Benefits
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data analysisworkforce analyticsfinancial reportingdata integritydata consolidationpredictive insightsprocess optimizationproject managementanalytical skillsproblem-solving
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationautonomyaccountabilityattention to detailcritical thinkinginfluencing decisionsfostering collaborationtimely deliverablesexplaining complex information
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in FinanceBachelor’s Degree in AccountingMaster of Business Administration (MBA)Certified Public Accountant (CPA)