Senior Analyst, Strategic ESG, Risk & Corporate Planning

Overview

Responsible for ensuring that all corporate planning activities are well designed, documented, established, and implemented. Creates and manages oversight of a balance between functional excellence and cross-functional process requirements; optimizes departmental processes, measures and manages performance. Leads activities with management on key projects related to the company’s business, financial and/or strategic activities.

• Extensively analyzes internal or external quantitative data and reports, such as results versus budget, results versus plan, sales forecasts, profitability, productivity, project management, product, industry, or market trends; and survey data. Formulates recommendations and/or proposals based on analytical assessment.
• Compiles accurate data on sales, profitability, productivity, project management, and other financial data. Data‑mine and conduct analytically assessments to decipher trends, hypotheses, and/or underlying root causes driving change.
• Gathers information/intelligence, performs analysis, compiles/prepares business reports, presentations and charts and assimilates corresponding recommendations or proposals. Includes establishing annual KPIs and reporting.
• Coordinate the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) along with Risk Management activities and requests both internally as well as externally from our customers and suppliers. Act as key point of contact for all PASA ESG requests. Participate in the development of the PASA ESG strategy and alignment with PEXNA and PHD initiatives.
• Advise on ESG standards, principles, and policies. Contribute to the development and publication of ESG reports including collecting data, material metrics, and consolidating information requests. Develop and maintain tools and mechanisms to evaluate, track and report on progress against company ESG goals and associated PASA KPIs.
• Support Business Planning requirements across Executive teams as well as alignment with AISJ and BUs. Support the customer reviews of the data and track changes points along the BP process. Work with the sales team to create a living BP file that incorporates the result and forecast information to assist in annual process.
• Work with the PEXNA teams to report trade requirements and update PASA Executive management on new legal restrictions. Support ad hoc request on current trade issues such as shift from NAFTA, tariff increases and product classifications. A point of contact at PASA for questions on tariff/trade activities impacting North America.
• Provides training, instruction and guidance to others in regard to their Planning related responsibilities.
• Works cross‑functionally with Product Strategy, Financial Strategy, Engineering, PM, Purchasing, Sales and SCM functions to understand customer and competitor trends in the automotive environment. Ensures cohesive company strategy, vision, and mission are being achieved.
• Assist in the audit process from licensors for IP usage on PASA models, help setup new programs with IP requirements by working hands on with the PM and Engineering teams and support monthly reporting and tracking processes. Support monthly maintenance of internal IP systems as well as adhoc reporting through Power BI and SAP tools.
• Communicates with internal and external customers, including executives, managers and employees, on local and global level, to gather / disseminate information, and/or establish / monitor action plans.
• Proactively reviews and makes improvement recommendations regarding the process to effectively reflect top management’s policies as well as customer/market status and trends.

• Four‑year college degree in business/marketing, finance or a related field plus five (5) years related business/analysis experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Analytical skills to include experience with financial analysis.
• Working knowledge of business practices including business, financial and strategic planning required.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Good overall knowledge of the automotive industry is preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred.
• Demonstrated advanced…