Finance Specialist jobs in United States, California, Fremont

• Maintain consumables bill of materials for Tesla collision centers, including paints, primers, masking tape, sandpaper, polishing compounds, foam, adhesives, and other essential repair chemicals and products for vehicle repair and refinish
• Collaborate with engineers, technical teams, specialists, and repair development colleagues to review, test, validate, and implement consumables for global collision operations
• Track and evaluate vendor performance using analytics, including vendor scorecards, KPIs, and reporting
• Provide technical expertise to the collision field, support teams, and other Tesla groups on consumables in the collision industry
• Manage consumables RFPs for new vehicle models, ensuring timelines meet launch schedules, and support sourcing and procurement alignment
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical, billing and other issues with consumables suppliers to ensure smooth operations and business alignment
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, using Tesla project management tools to track timelines and report key information

• 3+ years of experience in body/paint tech, operations, chemicals, or related fields (collision experience a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Excellent organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects with attention to detail
• Proactive, responsive, and positive with strong interpersonal skills, energy, and urgency
• Proficient in written and spoken English, quick to learn new software
• Team-oriented with a strong sense of confidentiality
• Ability to work independently, maintain confidentiality, obtain Tesla forklift certification if needed, and travel as required

• Maintain die PM system, including detailed work instructions and manage on schedule completion of PM activities
  
• Support defect troubleshooting procedures, die preparation check sheets, and trial procedures
  
• Maintain die spare parts lists and ensure parts are set up and in stock
  
• Follow die cleaning method and adherence to schedule
  
• Identify and implement proactive systems to achieve consistent reduction in stamping defects and productivity concerns
  
• Support development of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for production dies to identify critical risks and develop appropriate control plans
  
• Troubleshoot press line and minimize die down times during production
  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience, 5+ years hands-on experience working in automotive die maintenance and repair
• Class A work experience, interior or exterior body panels/large transfer dies
• Tool and Die trade obtained at a die design and build facility including hands-on CNC die surface machining, welding, and spotting experience
• Knowledge of world class production systems – i.e., Toyota Production System (TPS), General Motors Systems (GMS), or equivalent
• Experience in new vehicle development and launch activities. Understand interpretation of dimensional inspection results (checking fixture, CMM or vision system)
• Ability to work with and develop production performance metrics (efficiency, quality, safety, throughput, costs). Strong analytic problem-solving skills and organization skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal

Physical Demands

• Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day
• Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain
• Frequently and repetitively, lift, push and carry up to 35 lbs., including the ability to carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs
• Frequently and repetitively, bend, lift and reach to install parts
• Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for extended periods of time, including up to 12 hours/day
• Climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding or other high structures
• Ability to find issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing
• Wearing Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to: safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing Protection, and adhering to prescribed safety rules and guidelines

• Maintain die PM system, including detailed work instructions and manage on schedule completion of PM activities
  
• Troubleshoot casting issues associated with the die troubleshooting procedures
  
• Prepare die preparation check sheets and trial procedures
  
• Maintain die spare parts lists and ensure parts are set up and in stock prior to start of production
  
• Follow die cleaning method and adherence to schedule
  
• Identify and implement proactive systems to achieve consistent improvement in casting quality
  
• Support development of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for production dies to identify critical risks and develop appropriate control plans
  

• Experience in production of and maintaining dies producing structural aluminum die castings
• Hands on experience maintaining, modifying, and repairing dies
• Work efficiently and productively in independent and team settings
• Communicate clearly using written and verbal skills
• Strong organization skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Fluent with common MS office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal

Physical Demands

• Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day
• Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain
• Frequently and repetitively, lift, push and carry up to 35 lbs., including the ability to carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs
• Frequently and repetitively, bend, lift and reach to install parts
• Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for extended periods of time, including up to 12 hours/day
• Climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding or other high structures
• Ability to find issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing
• Potential exposure to confined spaces, elevated heat and hazardous materials
• Wearing Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to: safety glasses, safety shoes, bump caps, arm protection, hearing protection and adhering to prescribed safety rules and guidelines

• Design and implement automated data solutions to support various business teams such as Manufacturing, Accounting and Finance
• Own and manage projects from design to production, maintain relationship with stakeholders and collaborate with both business and technical teams to satisfy business needs
• Write, maintain and optimize scripts, processes and jobs that will be used by analytics and reporting solutions
• Build, manage and optimize scalable ETL pipelines using multiple sources apply transformation as per business needs and load data into data warehouse
• Design and refine data models by following best practices and techniques using most effective approaches for reporting and analytics such as star schema
• Identify slow-running processes and bottlenecks, troubleshoot problems, research and resolve issues
• Stay up to date with latest trends in data engineering, experiment with new tools, services, technologies and real-time processing frameworks
• Reverse engineer existing projects or products in use and always look for improvements in processes preferably with open-source technologies
• Collaborate with auditor and compliance teams to ensure that data solutions are in compliance with sox requirements especially on accounting and finance related projects
• Set high technical bar not just for yourself but for entire team, leading by example in coding standards, documentation and best practices

• Very strong SQL skills and very good understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Vertica, etc.)
• Data warehousing experience, good understanding of data modeling, dimensional modeling, working experience with large scale data
• Programming skills with Python, Java or similar
• Good understanding of open-source distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, Spark
• Expertise in scalable ETL and data pipelines and tools such as (SSIS, Informatica, Airflow, Luigi or similar)
• Knowledge of OLAP databases and tools (SSAS, Hyperion, Cognos etc.)
• Experience with Reporting and data visualization tools (SSRS, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker or similar)
• Excellent communication skills and able to effectively communicate and collaborate with both technical and business teams (such as manufacturing, compliance, finance and accounting)
• Having background in Accounting, Finance, Banking or similar industry is nice to have but not a necessity