Financial Planning & Analysis Consultant (Independent Contractor-6

Who We Are:

Lumileds is the leading global light engine company serving customers in automotive lighting, general illumination, and consumer market segments. Lumileds operates in over 30 countries and has approximately 6,000 employees. Lumileds is shaping the future of light with the most innovative technology in the illumination and automotive sectors, and helping our customers deliver differentiated solutions to the world. Lumileds is headquartered in San Jose, California, with operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands and sales offices throughout the world.

Together with its customers, Lumileds is making the world better, safer, more beautiful—with light.

The Lumileds environment is fast-paced, cutting-edge, intelligent, and fun! We welcome everyone regardless of their background, race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, etc. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and know that having different perspectives, experiences and identities on our team helps us to better meet the diverse needs of our global customers. To learn more, visit Lumileds.com

Position Summary:

Assist the CFO with the following key responsibilities:

Provide analytical and direct business support including the forecast, and annual plan processes which involves the coordination of business inputs across multiple departments, creation of forecast and results analysis and management reporting packages.

Create new executive reporting materials for forecasting and reporting.

Support other Finance team members by standardizing business partner support materials for OPEX and Manufacturing costs.

Develop and maintain annual budget and long-range plan financial models.

Develop close relationship with the Sales & Marketing teams and develop forecasts. Ensure projections and metrics are well underpinned as well as develop new dashboards and analytics explaining financial performance and projections.

Gain understanding of systems and processes for optimization, capturing efficiencies by simplifying data structure, streamlining workflows and utilizing reporting.

Analyze and monitor forecasted revenue, COGS and OPEX inputs against financial targets; proactively identifying both risks and opportunities.

Provide financial modeling, financial analysis and ad hoc support to CFO on projects as needed.

Establish a highly collaborative, cross-functional relationships across the business and organization.

Help train other finance team members on these activities as needed.

What You Will Bring (Required Qualifications):

15+ years of experience, ideally with experience in FP&A in global complex manufacturing businesses.

Exceptional communicator with ability to present concepts, recommendations and analyses to executive team in a clear, concise and actionable manner.

Ability to understand complex business drivers, produce high-quality analytics and communicate results effectively.

Experience aligning and driving cross-functional groups.

Problem solving and project management skills, with the ability to proactively manage to schedules and timelines.

Proven track record of advanced analytical skills; must be able to define and execute key analyses with minimal supervision.

Comfortable with ambiguity and demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Experience creating and implementing process and standardizing financial reporting.

Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.

Lumileds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer