Global Rebate Process Owner - Automation & Governance

Intel; Hillsboro (OR); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Vacation

Job summary

Intel seeks an experienced Rebates Global Process Owner Analyst to standardize and govern product level rebate accruals and inventory/payment methods. You will drive AI-enabled improvements, refine accrual logic, and lead governance for overrides while partnering with CAO, IT, and regional teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and SOX compliance, with an emphasis on scalable processes and automation. Hybrid US-based role with global stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
• 4+ years (with Bachelor's) or 3+ years (with Master's) of rebates accounting/operations experience, including accrual methodologies, forecasting/variance analysis, and end-to-end process understanding.
• Strong analytical and tooling capability (e.g., advanced Excel); comfort operating in structured templates and data driven models.
• Experience driving organizational adoption through training, user enablement, and stakeholder support across global teams.
• Ability to work flexible hours to collaborate effectively across multiple geographies and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Drive continued automation/AI support across GRASP and CAO tools.
• Lead/coordinate increased intelligence for GRASP algorithm logic, including refining review factors and enhancing algorithm knowledge.
• Maintain exception rules and override governance, including required rationale, support, and methodology for overrides.
• Partner with RAs/COE to interpret outputs, analyze variances, and drive model enhancements based on structured feedback.
• Support the development and implementation of financial and operational systems reporting and drive efficiency and effectiveness by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements.
• Support rollout and stabilization activities, including UAT/test environment simulations and cutover readiness discussions.
• Provide "advisor/sounding board" support to account teams during onboarding/stabilization while strengthening standardized decision making.
• Maintain/iterate enablement artifacts (templates, guidance) that leverage Excel formulas, Power Query, and macros to standardize execution of tools.
• Guide handling of edge cases (e.g., inventory sufficiency flags, buffer usage, out of order consumption constraints) consistent with policy and process design.
• Controls, SOX, and audit readiness
• Partner with COE/controls stakeholders to ensure process changes remain SOX relevant, documented, and auditable, including alignment with audit expectations when introducing new technologies or changing operating models.
• Support high risk close/control execution needs as required (e.g. coverage of SOX control and SOX610 global sample work).
• Cross functional stakeholder leadership
• Enable organizations to leverage advances in software solutions, data analytics, data mining, and visualization techniques to better understand their operations and customers.
• Develop financial models that enable data-driven insights for performance measurement and rolling forecast.
• Translate technical accounting/process concepts into clear guidance and decision options for CAO and business partners, supporting go/no go decisions and scaled rollout governance.
• Vistex/V4 readiness/adoption across the landscape, including but not limited to: Reporting and Analytics Lead, Finance Systems and UAT Rep, and Payment Adjustment Reviewer and Approver.

Skills

Rebates accounting

Forecasting & variance analysis

End-to-end process understanding

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Training & enablement

Global collaboration

Python

Power Query

VBA macros

KNIME

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Vistex

ECC

V4 concepts

Job description

Intel seeks an experienced Rebates Global Process Owner Analyst to standardize and govern product level rebate accruals and inventory/payment methods. You will drive AI-enabled improvements, refine accrual logic, and lead governance for overrides while partnering with CAO, IT, and regional teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and SOX compliance, with an emphasis on scalable processes and automation. Hybrid US-based role with global stakeholders.