Commercial Finance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Evaluate quote packages for profitability, margin impact, and alignment with strategic targets.
• Analyze margins and overall profitability across quote packages and propose recommendations to uncover discrepancies or risks before submission.
• Identify risks, margin gaps, and cost inconsistencies in quotes and highlight opportunities to enhance profitability.
• Assess key quote assumptions such as material, labor, overhead, scrap, tooling, freight, volume, capital, and program timing to ensure financial completeness and accuracy.
• Compare quoted assumptions to actual performance when available and propose refinements for future quotes.
• Contribute to forecasting by analyzing quoted and awarded business, pricing assumptions, and launch outlook.
• Evaluate pricing scenarios and offer recommendations considering cost structure, target margins, customer dynamics, and business goals.
• Assist pricing decisions for new and existing business, cost changes, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Foster consistent pricing discipline and financial review within the quoting workflow.
• Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering and Tooling to understand cost drivers and cost assumptions.
• Support analysis of cost increases and changes in operating costs and their impact on customer or product profitability.
• Improve visibility into margins at the product, customer, and program levels.
• Report to the VP of Finance and HR with a dotted line to the Director of Technical Sales; work closely with Technical Sales, Engineering, Customer Service, and Operations teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in financial analysis, commercial finance, pricing, quoting analysis, cost analysis, FP&A, manufacturing finance, or related roles.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, pivot tables, lookup functions, scenario analysis, and managing large data sets.
• Experience supporting quoting, pricing, product costing, margin analysis, or customer profitability is preferred.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen with the ability to identify trends in large data sets.
• Ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
• Understanding of manufacturing cost structures, including labor, overhead, materials, tooling, and freight is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, organizational, coordination, and time management skills.

Technologies

• Microsoft Excel

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Bereavement leave
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance
• Volunteer time off

Pay

• $77,000 - $90,000 per year

Location

• Grand Rapids, MI (onsite)

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to perform standard industry practices for this position.