Project Coordinator III

Akidev Corporation; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Akidev Corporation seeks a Project Management - Project Coordinator III to support engineering teams across the budget lifecycle, including planning, forecasting, accruals, and reporting. You will liaise with budget owners and cross-functional partners to ensure timely submissions and data integrity, while driving automation and AI-enabled improvements.

The role blends finance/data work with process management, requiring strong communication skills and experience with dashboards and executive

Qualifications

• 4–5+ years in spend tracking, budgeting and forecasting in a hardware/R&D/manufacturing setting.
• Practical background in prompt engineering, AI agent development, or workflow automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering teams through quarterly and annual planning cycles with tailored analytical support.
• Audit budget and forecast submissions with internal tooling to ensure data integrity.
• Analyze forecast and spend data, translate variances into a narrative with drivers.
• Log action items from reviews, follow up with owners, and drive items to closure.
• Run and review the monthly accrual cycle against PO balances and receipts.
• Build recurring reports: weekly/monthly budget and forecast status, dashboards.
• Create reusable AI agents for recurring workflows to improve efficiency.

Skills

Spend and forecast data analysis

Executive-level communication

Process improvement with AI

NPI experience

Change management and process change

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Engineering/Analytics

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Start/End Dates: 11/30/2026 - 12/31/2027

Tax Work Location: US - CA - Sunnyvale

Job Title: Project Management - Project Coordinator III

Job Description: Summary

This role supports engineering teams across the full budget lifecycle — planning, forecasting, accruals, and reporting. The coordinator serves as a trusted point of contact for budget owners, partners closely with Procurement, Sourcing, Accounts Payable, and program management, and builds the recurring reporting and automation that the organization relies on.

Must-Have Skills

• Spend and forecast data analysis — hands-on experience processing financial data, ideally from a financial operations background, with the ability to prepare reports to an established standard.
• Executive-level communication — proven experience creating and presenting reports and insights to directors and senior leadership.
• Process improvement with AI — practical prompt engineering experience and the ability to think beyond prompting to improve business processes end to end.
• NPI (new product introduction) experience, especially in consumer electronics.
• Change management and new process implementation experience — the role is roughly 50/50 finance/data work and process/change work.

Key Responsibilities

• Support engineering teams through quarterly and annual planning cycles by clarifying processes and tooling, resolving inquiries, and providing tailored analytical support to ensure on-time submissions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to audit budget and forecast submissions in internal tooling, ensuring data integrity and accuracy while providing ad hoc support to stakeholders.
• Analyze forecast and spend data, translating variances into a clear narrative with named drivers and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Log action items from reviews, follow up with owners, and drive items to closure.
• Run and review the monthly accrual cycle: collect accruals from owners, validate against open PO balances and goods or services received, and enter them in the internal tool on time.
• Build and maintain recurring reporting, including weekly and monthly budget status, forecast status, commitment reports, vendor and PO views, and dashboards.
• Build reusable AI agents and assistants for recurring workflows, analysis, and reporting tasks to drive efficiency and scale.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for budget owners on spend questions, working cross-functionally with Procurement, Sourcing Managers, Accounts Payable, and program management.

Required Qualifications

• 4–5+ years of hands-on experience in spend tracking, budgeting and forecasting, and capacity or resource analysis, ideally supporting an engineering, hardware, R&D, or manufacturing organization.
• Practical background in prompt engineering, AI agent development, or workflow automation tooling.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, lookups, and large-workbook modeling, with a demonstrated ability to build reporting that others rely on.
• Experience building dashboards and data visualizations for a leadership audience using any BI tool, such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or an internal equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English, with a proven ability to present financial analysis to senior non-finance stakeholders.
• High degree of autonomy, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward closing loops without needing to be chased.
• Discretion in handling confidential budget, vendor, and headcount information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Professional experience or a data/analytics certification, such as a recognized data analytics professional certificate, Tableau Desktop Specialist, Certified Data Analyst, Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, or a SQL or cloud data-analytics certification.
• Exposure to a hardware or consumer electronics product development lifecycle and NPI gates.