Senior Financial Analyst chez Toyota Industries Commercial Finance

About the Job:

As a Senior Financial Analyst at Toyota Industries Commercial Finance (TICF), you will play a pivotal role in aligning financial reporting and planning processes across our North American sales finance entities. Positioned within the Finance team, this role is instrumental in guiding the consolidation of financial data, harmonizing reporting standards, and enhancing analytical clarity across regions. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to ensure timely, accurate, and insightful consolidated financial reporting that supports decision-making and long-term strategic initiatives.  This role requires not only technical expertise but also the ability to navigate competing priorities and drive consensus among diverse stakeholders, including executive leadership.

The Senior Financial Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting senior leadership, key business initiatives, decisions, and shaping the company's future roadmap.  This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a complex, evolving environment and is passionate about building scalable financial frameworks.

Planning & Budgeting

 Lead the annual planning cycle, including target-setting for volume, market share, ROMA and income.

• Own the end-to-end U.S. forecasting process including assumption setting, updates, reporting, and monitoring.
• Influence and advise senior functional leaders, serving as a strategic thought partner in aligning resources to organizational priorities.
• Develop budgets with Department heads and drive alignment with corporate and regional priorities.
• Partner with executive leadership and department leaders to translate strategic initiatives into financial plans that balance growth and cost discipline.
• Manage rolling forecasts, update assumptions, and incorporate business drivers to maintain financial accuracy and flexibility.
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Prepare detailed budget-to-actual analysis sharing insights and recommendations with executive and department leadership.
• Perform deep-dive financial analysis on performance drivers, scenario modeling, and sensitivity testing.
• Enhance and maintain financial models, planning tools, and templates to streamline processes and improve accuracy.
• Drive continuous improvement of the planning and budgeting framework to ensure scalability and efficiency as the business evolves.
• Support business case development for new initiatives by modeling financial impact and ROI.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis to address executive and department leadership requests and evolving business needs.

Consolidation & Reporting

• Lead the preparation and delivery of standardized consolidated financial reports across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency with corporate standards.
• Coordinate with regional finance teams to validate results and support executive-level reporting deliverables.
• Focus on harmonizing data collection, metric calculations and definitions, and reporting logic while respecting local ownership of regional OPEX processes.
• Act as a central point of contact between the U.S. executive leadership, Japan Sales Finance Office, and regional finance teams to align on definitions, timelines, and requirements.
• Conduct high-level variance analysis and summarize key business drivers across entities.
• Support internal and external audit requests through documentation, reconciliations, and analysis.

• Contribute to the development of standardized templates and best practices that improve clarity and comparability across regional submissions.

Transformation Initiatives

• Support feasibility assessments and help identify automation opportunities for future-state reporting and process efficiency.
• Drive adoption and execution of standardized planning and reporting frameworks that enhance transparency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Collaborate with IT and process owners to explore tools and systems enhancements that improve decision support.
• Serve as the strategic liaison between regional finance teams, U.S. executive leadership, and Japan Sales Finance Office (SFO), aligning priorities, definitions, and timelines.
• Facilitate change management efforts, ensuring adoption of standardized frameworks while addressing resistance from regional stakeholders.

Qualifications You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. MBA preferred, consideration given to candidates with significant relevant experience.  
• 5+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis, consolidation, or corporate reporting—ideally within a multinational or financial services organization.
• Strong knowledge of planning and budgeting processes, with proven ability to manage full forecast cycles and provide actionable insights.
• Advanced Excel skills required; proficiency with financial planning systems (e.g., Hyperion, SAP BPC, Anaplan, or similar tools) is strongly preferred.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with executive management, department leads, and other customers (external or internal), especially across regions or business units
• Proven ability to proactively execute process improvements and streamline reporting cycles.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively to executive stakeholders influencing positive outcomes.
• Highly organized with strong time management skills and attention to detail with the ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with project management, planning, or implementation is a plus (e.g., leading or supporting multi-phase process rollouts or system enhancements).