Operations Analyst

Comrise; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Comrise is seeking a budget-focused professional to support the Vehicle Systems Engineering department in Foster City, CA. You will manage monthly, quarterly, and annual financial cycles, coordinate forecasts, POs, goods receipts, and invoice flows, and be the primary contact for VSE budget topics.

You will prepare clear financial reports for department leadership, align with budget owners and Finance Controllers, and drive improvements in reporting tools.

Qualifications

• Financial management degree and 8+ years hands-on relevant experience.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Productivity & Financial Systems.
• SAP (track orders, goods receipts, invoice flow); Excel (pivot tables, macros); Sheets (shared dashboards, permissions, version control); Slides (financial summaries with variance explanations, tables, waterfalls, paretos).

Responsibilities

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, including forecasts, PO tracking, goods receipts, and invoice management.
• 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.

Skills

Financial management

Communication

Organization

Budgeting

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

Tools

SAP

Excel

Sheets

Slides

Job description

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• Financial management degree and 8+ years hands on relevant experience. Project management skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Productivity & Financial Systems
• 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)