Operations Analyst

Job description

Company is helping an on-demand, autonomous ride-hailing company find an Operations Analyst to support financial planning, forecasting, and budget management for its Vehicle Systems Engineering team.

In this role, you'll support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles while maintaining accurate forecasts, tracking spending, and preparing financial reporting for department leadership. You'll serve as a key point of contact for the Vehicle Systems Engineering budget, partnering with budget owners and Finance Controllers to maintain visibility into actuals, forecasts, and potential gaps.

The ideal candidate is an experienced and highly organized financial operations professional with strong analytical, project management, and communication skills. You're comfortable managing complex budgets, working across multiple stakeholders, and translating financial data into clear reporting and insights for both technical and executive audiences.



As an Operations Analyst, you'll:

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, including forecasts, purchase order tracking, goods receipts, and invoice management.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Vehicle Systems Engineering budget-related topics.
• Maintain budget actuals and forecasts, providing regular reporting on performance against plan and adjusting forecasts as needed.
• Partner with budget owners and Finance Controllers to align on financial status, resolve gaps, and address budget-related questions.
• Prepare clear financial reports and presentations for department leadership, including variance explanations and supporting visualizations.
• Support process improvement initiatives to enhance financial reporting tools and workflows.

Ideal candidate profile


Responsibilities: Keep budget actuals and forecast up to date Align budget status with each of budget owners Update financial forecast for the department Create regular status reports

Daily tasks


At company we have set the goal to provide our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. In this role you will work with vehicle engineering and purchasing managers to create a budget forecast and determine the status of the organization's budget. Your efforts will help ensure accurate and timely spend reporting which will enable improved decision making and accelerated project advancement.

Required skills

Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, and prepare and manage financial reporting for VSE leadership, including, updating forecasts, tracking purchase orders, assuring goods received and invoices are in place Be the go-to person for all topics related to the Vehicle System Engineering Budget Providing regular status reports on budget actuals versus forecast, and adjust forecasts for remainder of budget year Align with the Finance Controllers on status and resolve potential gaps, and support answering open questions around budget. Assist with process improvement initiatives to drive improvements in reporting tools.

Business driver of role


Qualifications: Financial management degree and 8+ years hands on relevant experience. Project management skills Excellent communications skills Excellent organizational skills Productivity & Financial Systems Know-How: SAP (track orders, goods receipts, invoice flow) Excel (pivot tables, macros) Sheets (shared dashboards, permissions, version control) Slides (create clear financial summaries with variance explanations, comparison tables, waterfalls, paretos and other visual storylines for technical and executive audiences)