Senior Financial Analyst - Logistics

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form Revolutionary Foundation.

Position Overview

We are looking for an analytical and practical Senior Financial Analyst to join the Harbinger FP&A team. You will be the finance business partner to our Logistics team which covers material handling warehouse management third-party logistics (3PL) locations receiving of all goods outsourced manufacturing logistics and shipment of finished goods. This team is scaling our warehouse and logistics network as Harbinger scales production.

You will sit on the leadership team of the business you support. You will own their financial plan help leaders understand how their decisions show up in the numbers and build the metrics that show whether we are getting more efficient as volume grows. This role suits someone who is comfortable with ambiguity likes working directly with operations and engineering teams and wants to build something rather than maintain it.

Passion for our mission and vision is required.

What Youll Do:

• Own annual and multi-year financial planning (headcount OPEX and capital) for the Logistics team including warehousing material handling receiving and 3PL locations.
• Own the inbound and outbound freight forecast and month-end freight accruals including spend by mode (truckload LTL and expedited) and tracking of premium and expedited freight.
• Build operating and financial metrics such as cost per part received stored and shipped 3PL cost per unit and finished goods freight cost per vehicle and track how they change as volume grows.
• Build and track business cases for warehouse material handling and automation investments including network expansion and in-house versus 3PL decisions and track actual capital spend and returns against those cases.
• Measure 3PL carrier and outsourced manufacturing logistics costs and service performance against plan and contracted rates and track realized savings.
• Partner with Logistics and Accounting so receiving inventory in transit inventory held at third-party locations capitalized inbound freight and finished goods shipping costs are accurately reflected in the financials and help explain inventory adjustments at our warehouses and 3PL locations.
• Analyze and explain variances to plan and forecast with a focus on drivers and actions the business can take.
• Create and present content for business reviews and finance reviews.

Who You Are:

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Accounting Economics or a STEM field
• 3-5 years of financial analysis experience
• Advanced Excel skills including building models with multiple inputs constraints and scenarios
• Experience with data mining using SQL
• Experience partnering directly with operations supply chain logistics or engineering leaders
• Working knowledge of transportation modes and freight cost drivers
• Strong written communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Masters degree in a related field
• Experience with logistics freight warehouse or distribution finance including unit cost and capacity modeling
• Experience with capital business cases for automation or facilities
• Experience managing or analyzing 3PL contracts outsourced manufacturing or contract logistics costs
• Experience with a transportation management system (TMS) or warehouse management system (WMS)
• Experience at an automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier or in high-rate manufacturing EV or industrial companies

Key Benefits & Perks:

• Comprehensive Health Dental & Vision (HDV) 100% employee covered
• Early-stage Stock Options
• Robust Retirement Savings (401k HSA FSA)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
• Annual Vacation Bonus
• Wellness & Fertility Benefits
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$100000 - $120000 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin ancestry sex sexual orientation gender gender expression gender identity genetic information or characteristics physical or mental disability marital/domestic partner status age military/veteran status medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC