Plant Cost Analytics Specialist

Volkswagen AG; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. seeks a skilled financial analyst to report and optimize Chattanooga plant costs. You will oversee labor, overhead, logistics, and launch spend, integrating BOARD and SAP-based tools while aligning with budgets and forecasts.

This senior role interfaces with executive leadership to improve reporting accuracy and decision support. The position emphasizes cross-functional collaboration across finance, manufacturing, and IT, driving improvements in financial

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional work experience in related field, including 2–3 in advanced financial analysis and cost controlling.
• 4 year Bachelor‘s Degree in Accounting/Finance or Engineering, or MBA.
• ERP Power User with SAP R/3 or similar ERP system knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate full-scale business analysis to all users in the plant cost area for integrated financial systems.
• Develop a training platform to improve end-user engagement and reporting quality.
• Functional liaison with Financial Systems Coordinator for incident prioritization.
• Create strategy for underlying plant cost reporting systems to support long-range planning.
• Lead technical and project management efforts across the controlling function at executive level.
• Develop BOARD-based reports and reconciliations across cost centers and accounts.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost controlling

SAP R/3

Board modeling

Advanced data manipulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or Engineering

MBA

Tools

SAP R/3

BOARD

TM1

Job description

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Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN.

Brief Role Description

Responsible to report the total plant cost of VW Chattanooga including labor, overhead, logistics, AfA, and launch. Analyze and create reporting tools across plant cost areas of labor, overhead, logistics, depreciation, and launch including changes related to new model introduction, calendar, volume, capacity, shift model, headcount, compensation rates, benefits, operating issues etc. and properly report their impact to the financial statements (actual vs. budget, forecast, multi-year planning round). Area of reporting responsibility greater than 1 billion USD per year.

Possible Tasks within this Role

• Lead and coordinate full-scale business analysis to all users in the plant cost area for the implementation of integrated financial systems, to achieve easy and fast financial analysis and reporting across multiple dimensions. Currently such financial data resides in multiple, half-autonomous legacy systems
• Develop a training & informational exchange platform to provide advanced communication with and between end users in several departments to better leverage on existing system functionalities and increase productivity and quality in plant cost financial reporting and analysis.
• Functional liaison with Financial Systems Coordinator - central point of contact to plant cost team for all plant cost area end user inquiries, incidents, problems and requests, providing clear priorities on incidents
• Create strategy of underlying plant cost reporting systems to generate timely & accurate long range financial plans, negotiated plant cost targets, annual budgets, and monthly forecasts
• Lead technical and project management efforts across the controlling function at CEO, VP, CFO, director, management, and controller level
• Develop transparent financial reporting tools for a myriad of comparisons such as (Project to PR, PR to budget, budget to actual, budget to forecast, actual to task force, etc.); present the reconciliations in a professional manner consistent with VW Brand Board and NAR presentations
• Drive plant cost controlling department reporting efforts to define key input variables, integrate data across a wide variety of departments & stakeholders, publish accurate and highly transparent cost reports in all major accounts (direct labor, indirect labor, logistics cost, -overhead and launch.)
• Coordinate with investment and financial planning management, CFO, and director to maximize Chattanooga interests reporting process.
• Develop, maintain & improve internal BOARD modeling tools for comprehensive cost planning & reporting in the areas of direct labor, indirect labor, overhead and launch cost.
• Create reports of summarizing top-down targets of the bottom up planning processes in each controlling area, by account, by month, by cost center, etc. Load into BOARD and reconcile to SAP and bottom up files.
• Lead the development of the monthly forecast BOARD reporting tools for the current fiscal year. Monitor several underlying assumptions to provide transparency and enhance understanding.
• Lead controllers in the research of complex spending requests with department stakeholders, analyze alternatives and formulate financial recommendations to the Cost Committee Leadership
• Develop insightful BOARD financial reports and reconciliations to enhance Plant Management’s understanding of financial performance
• Lead Plant Cost implementation of BOARD business reporting tools across all plant cost areas including launch cost.
• Partner with accounting, financial planning US and NAR and FP WOB and FP Mexico
• Any other actions deemed reasonable by management

Qualification requirements

Required:

• 4-6 years of professional work experience in related field, including 2-3 in advanced financial analysis and cost controlling
• 4 year Bachelor‘s Degree in Accounting/Finance or Engineering, or MBA
• ERP Power User - Comprehensive knowledge of SAP R/3 or similar ERP system (Purchasing, Logistics, Finance, Payroll)
• Manipulating massive amounts of multi-dimensional data using database tools with complex table joins

Preferred:

• Master‘s Degree in Accounting/Finance or Engineering or MBA
• Working knowledge of VW efficiency processes including Massnahmen@web and LIDA1
• Working knowledge of TM1, BOARD, or similar system

Volkswagen Group of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its applicants. The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its applicants regarding job security.

This Organization participates in E-Verify. We maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Job ID: 32069

Company: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

Location: Chattanooga, TN, US, 37416

Department: Finance and Controlling

Working Model: Full-time

Contract Type: Unlimited

Remote Working: According to company policy

Posting Date: Oct 28, 2026

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Founded in 1955, Volkswagen of America, Inc., an operating unit of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWoA) is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VWoA’s operations in the United States include research and development, parts and vehicle processing, parts distribution centers, sales, marketing and service offices, financial service centers, and its stateof-theart manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.