Finance Director – Growth & New Programs

IAC Group

Finance Director overseeing automotive finance operations ensuring profitability tracking and cost estimating. Leading a team while managing financial strategies for new business acquisition.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeSouthfield • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure that the company acquires profitable new business
Properly track such expected profitability from business award to program launch
Lead the Cost Estimating group, the Program Management Finance lead and the Commercial Finance lead
Bring to light with data those situations where we deviate from commercial, engineering or operational assumptions
Assess the workload of the costing team and recommend resource balancing to support fluctuating program demands
Work directly with Commercial or Operations to troubleshoot and resolve price / costing discrepancies
Mentor staff to ensure they understand the cost drivers in an automotive interior environment
Support program managers financial needs
Standardize program management financial templates
Flag overspending and control the governance of funding reallocation when required
Support Business managers’ financial needs and commercial roadmaps

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience: 10+ years in Tier 1 Automotive Finance or Cost Engineering (Interiors/Seating preferred).
Good track record on development and implementation of cost estimating / quoting / cost modelling tools.
Subject Matter Expertise: Deep "shop-floor" understanding of manufacturing costs.
Leadership: Experience managing a distributed team and the ability to negotiate with General Managers and Plant Controllers.
Analytical Skills: Advanced mastery of ECN impact tracking, PAR/CapEx management, and complex intercompany sales.

Benefits

Comp & perks

10+ years in Tier 1 Automotive Finance or Cost Engineering (Interiors/Seating preferred).
Good track record on development and implementation of cost estimating / quoting / cost modelling tools.
Deep "shop-floor" understanding of manufacturing costs.
Ability to challenge a plant's cost assumptions with data-driven benchmarks.
Experience managing a distributed team and the ability to negotiate with General Managers and Plant Controllers.
Advanced mastery of ECN impact tracking, PAR/CapEx management, and complex intercompany sales.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cost estimatingcost modellingquotingECN impact trackingPAR managementCapEx managementfinancial templates standardizationoverspending controlresource balancingdata analysis

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringnegotiationtroubleshootinganalytical skills