Financial Analyst – Contract Auditing (Hybrid - Warren, MI)

The Mom Project is partnering with a large, established organization in the automotive industry to identify a Financial Analyst on a contract basis to support its ongoing business needs. This role is hybrid in Warren, MI.

About the Role:

The PVI Audit team plays a critical role in identifying contract discrepancies, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing process improvements to minimize risk within our automotive client's Global Purchasing operations. The team proactively identifies supplier overpayments, collaborates with Global Purchasing and Supply Chain teams to recover funds, and ensures contracts are updated to reflect accurate pricing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze contract reports to identify potential cost-saving opportunities and areas
• for improvement.
• Strong Excel skills are key to success in this role, including hands-on experience with VLOOKUPs
• and working with reporting data.
• Provide high-quality deliverables to communicate the contract issues to GPSC
• Interface with buyers and other stakeholders to review audit results
• Support GPSC negotiation with suppliers
• Drive closure of open audits and recovery of overpayments within stipulated time frame.
• Meet or exceed all assigned KPIs and targets such as touch rate, case aging, and cost
• recoveries.
• Perform special studies at GPSC or GBS leadership request.
• Support new people training
• Support and lead special project

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related fields
• Intermediate to advanced level in Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and Conditional formula
• Ability to learn new process and technical skills at a rapid pace
• Problem solving, critical thinking, and strong analytical abilities
• Initiative to find creative solutions to improve current process
• Desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skills
• Ability to work independently with minimum instructions
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to connect and develop strong partnerships
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Ability to prioritize assignments / projects and multi-task within restricted time constraints without sacrificing the timeliness or quality of work

Contract Details:

• Schedule: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
• Location: Hybrid - Requiring 3 days(Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in-office per week.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Unless expressly authorized in the interview/skill set validation instructions, candidates may not use AI tools or other third-party assistance during an interview or assessment to generate or provide substantive answers to interview questions. Candidates should answer organically in their own words, drawing on their own knowledge, skills, and experience. Failure to adhere to these expectations may result in the candidate being removed from consideration.

Note: This is not meant to address the use of assistive technologies (e.g., captioning, screen readers, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, etc.) where approved as reasonable accommodations.