Senior Financial Analyst CFPA

Description

As a Senior Financial Analyst - CFPA at GM, you will play a critical role in shaping the financial insights that guide enterprise-level decisions. In this highly visible position, you will partner directly with senior leadership to translate complex business performance into clear, data-driven analysis that informs key strategic choices. You will contribute to materials and external financial communications, linking short-term results to multi-year objectives and ensuring our financial messaging is consistent, accurate, and aligned with GM's long-term priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sr. Leadership (e.g., CFO, Deputy CFO, SOT, EST, etc.) in strategic decisions and performance evaluation
• Support preparation of financial decision-making analysis supporting key financial updates such as: MOR, Budget, and other key strategic initiatives
• Support external messaging development/analysis by working closely with IR through Quarterly and Annual Earnings releases, EBIT, EPS, and guidance, and investor conferences
• Build Board-ready materials that link short-term results to multi-year enterprise objectives, including margin, cash, and capital return.
• Synthesize bottom-up submissions (regions, functions, EV, GPSC, Mfg, S&S, etc.) into a cohesive enterprise view, calling out structural vs. timing drivers.
• Develop risk / opportunity frameworks (e.g., patch usage, GTC / stretch, contingency deployment) that show how management actions can move from baseline to target or guidance.
• Partner with regional and functional teams to ensure MOR and Budget messaging is analytically sound, aligned with prior commitments, and consistent across all senior forums.

• Strong analytical skills/ Fundamental knowledge of corporate finance
• A bachelor's degree in business, finance, or economics , MBA or Other Finance Masters degree a plus
• 5 years in finance or accounting experience
• Familiarity with basic accounting principles, CPA a plus
• High business acumen and strategic thinking, ability to develop insights, communicate those insights (finance and non-finance) to influence the organization
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Ability to organize and plan effectively, in ambiguous and continually changing environment
• Learning agility and intellectual curiosity
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal guidance/supervision
• Ability to network and build trust across peer group in regions and functions
• Proactively work to resolve issues and move projects forward
• Knowledge of corporate finance principles including ability to perform balance sheet analysis, net income statement analysis, cash flow statement analysis, knowledge of debt structures, etc.
• Desire to learn the specific business that would be supported (Product Development, Supply Chain, Sales Service and Marketing, Manufacturing, etc.)
• Comfortable presenting to GM Senior Management