R & D Finance Controller

Job Description

Job Description

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Controlling and financial reporting for all engineering services between North America and other regional partners (South America/Enlarged Europe/Asia Pacific) including actuals and budget/forecasts
• Lead and support special projects including process improvements, implementation of regional funding strategies, and other global engineering/finance initiatives
• Coordinate alignment with global engineering and finance teams to ensure accurate related party and IFRS accounting and enable timely contract execution and cash settlement
• Collaborate with accounting, tax, purchasing, and treasury partners on implementation of new processes, and execution of initiatives to increase workflow efficiencies
• Contribute to evolving Global Engineering Finance structure
• Support Group ER&D Special Projects

What you'll learn:

• ​The ability to work with operational counterparts while practicing financial management (forecasts, budgets).
• Manage collaboration with engineering counterparts to optimize efficiency of ER&D spending from cost controllership perspective.
• Ability to make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work with large data sets, and the ability to summarizeand present the material in a clear and concise manner to all levels of management.
• Learn engineering's product development process as well as the management process throughout the vehicle lifecycle.​​

What this role will prepare you for:

• ​Ability to work cross-functionally with North America and global organizations to share knowledge and gain consensus.
• Manage and analyze large volumes of data with frequent updates which are used in Leadership Presentations and Operational Meetings.
• Detailed understanding of North America Vehicle/Powertrain/Software/Hardware Engineering and Global Engineering Perimeters.
• Related Party Accounting and Tax Financial Reporting guidelines and processes

​Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (if no Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, must have an MBA).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance or Accounting.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in business unit budgeting and forecasting.
• Minimum of 2 years of Microsoft Office Suite application experience.
• Strong project management skills to manage multiple work streams at one time.
• Ability to deliver on high-priority requests in a timely manner, providing a point of view for direction of deliverable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA and/or CPA preferred
• Excellent navigation and comprehensive knowledge of SAP software application
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written).
• Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Lookup), Essbase and Accounting knowledge beneficial
• Automotive industry knowledge a plus

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.