About this role
Job Description Job DescriptionTITLE: Lead Financial Analyst POSITIONS: Multiple Vacancies LOCATION: Johnson Electric Motion Technology Canada Ltd. - Mississauga Plant #2, 2400 Royal Windsor Drive, Mississauga, ON L5J 1K7 REPORTS TO: FPS Group Controller
Scope The Lead Financial Analyst is a critical, high-impact leadership position within the Global FPS Controlling team. This is not a traditional accounting or standard FP&A role; it is designed for a true Financial Business Partner who operates with a corporate ownership mindset to bridge the gap between financial rigor, shop-floor manufacturing reality, and executive strategy. Reporting directly to the Group Controller, FPS, the incumbent serves as a vital strategic coordinator across global operations (primarily North America, Europe, and Asia, with a strong focus on China). This role takes ownership of driving profitability, cost leadership, and competitive commercial bidding in a volatile automotive market. The Lead Financial Analyst will lead the digitization, automation, and advanced AI integration of financial models to streamline global budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic planning at the Business Unit (BU) level. Job Responsibilities
• Drive Financial Performance: Act as a core Business Partner to the FPS BU leadership, taking direct ownership of key financial metrics including Divisional EBITA, Revenue, EPR, and Cash Flow to achieve multi-million-dollar global targets. • Operational & Plant Integration: Move beyond retrospective reporting by embedding financial analysis into shop-floor realities. Actively participate in operational plant meetings, inventory cycle counts, and workflow optimizations across global manufacturing facilities (specifically bridging Canada and China hubs). • Cross-Functional Synergy: Partner closely with Group Controllers, Plant Finance teams, Business Development Managers (BDMs), Product Managers (PMs), and Supply Chain Strategy (SCS) to track KPIs across diverse product lines (Hydraulic, Mechatronic, and E-Pumps). • Advanced Cost Modeling: Spearhead the optimization of multi-scenario competitive bidding cost models. Logically integrate localized operational data-such as sales forecasts, direct labor (DL), production capacity, overhead (POH), and next-generation CAPEX-to ensure quotations are robust, aggressive, and realistic. • Lifecycle Margin Tracking: Establish clear financial benchmarks within commercial models to enable Project Managers to track product costs and gross margins across the entire product lifecycle (NPV, Payback, ROI). • Strategic Commercial Consultations: Empower BU commercial initiatives by conducting rigorous reviews of commercial engineering assumptions, bridging regional business processes into cohesive, global data flows. • Methodology Localization & Execution: Act as the strategic lead for the localized execution of advanced corporate methodologies. Deconstruct complex Bills of Materials (BOM) to clarify granular components (Pure BOM, CnS, See-Through Material Cost) for cross-functional teams. • Value Engineering & Margin Improvement: Leverage proprietary corporate metrics (e.g., Idiot Index, Bottom 20 Gross Margin) to define differentiated market strategies-identifying where to lower prices for market share versus where to aggressively renegotiate with suppliers or pursue internal cost improvements. • Data Integrity & Global Coordination: Serve as a high-visibility global coordinator between regional Financial PMOs and local plants. Enforce reporting discipline, resolve cross-regional technical data bottlenecks, and ensure data aligns seamlessly with corporate standards and budget cycles. • Next-Generation Modeling: Research and develop so