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Ford Motor Company

Material Cost Finance Analyst

Ford Motor Company

. Manage the Bill of Material (BoM).

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeCampbellfield • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Manage the Bill of Material (BoM).
  • Provide financial support to Engineers and Programs Office in reviewing changes for approval and reporting risks and opportunities.
  • Complete review and analysis of proposed changes and supplier cost updates, prepare approval papers and ensure robust tracking of approved cost and investment changes.
  • Support the setting up and monitoring the financial targets and program budgets for material components and Tooling.
  • Provide financial analysis to support cross functional analysis including Purchasing, Program Finance and Engineering.
  • Support idea generation and tracking for cost/investment reduction to help achieve financial targets.
  • Analysing and presenting business cases before the senior management involving design and sourcing changes.
  • Support financial reporting to Senior Management regarding financial status and variance explanations.
  • Complete Bill of Material (BOM) reconciliations to confirm cost status and ensure robust financial reporting.
  • Support workstreams and processes to deliver Control Model Vehicle and Average Market/Region Material Cost reporting, including development and maintenance of feature cost walks and average Car Modelling.
  • Support the review of Market Equation inputs including scrubbing the Market Equations to ensure the costing and pricing assumptions are aligned.
  • Involvement in other related cost analysis work streams: Support business decisions on vehicle content through TARR and profitability analysis, Ad hoc financial and business analysis to support program feature and content decisions, Material Planning and Logistics (freight, duty, taxes), Sequencing cost analysis/tracking, Bailment analysis/tracking, Program Investment consolidation.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work with cross functional teams (i.e. with purchasing, engineers etc).
  • Ability to summarise detailed information and present key take-outs to senior management.
  • Leadership skills - being a self starter, drive for results & closure.
  • Process oriented and attention to detail.
  • Dealing with large quantities of data.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
  • Financial Modelling – Intermediate / Advanced.
  • CA/CPA Desirable/ Tertiary qualification in Bachelor of Commerce or equivalent discipline.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Ford Australia is an inclusive employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
  • If you require any support or adjustments to the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Lead Sarah at scastr34@ford.com.
  • Applicants must be legally authorised to work in Australia. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysiscost analysisfinancial modellingBill of Material (BoM) managementcost trackingvariance analysisprofitability analysisdata analysismaterial planningsequencing cost analysis
Soft Skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationcross functional teamworkpresentation skillsleadershipattention to detailprocess orientationself-starterdrive for resultssummarization
Certifications
CACPABachelor of Commerce