Vehicle Finance Business Partner

Role & responsibilities

Banking, Revenue and Receivables Management

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to automate banking operations.
• Manage dealer-level INF limits and receivables, including monitoring and controlling dealer limits.
• Maintain controls over receivables through ageing analysis, tracking of credit outstanding, and management reporting.
• Monitor debit and credit notes arising from price differences and related adjustments.

Media, Event, Training Cars Control

• Monitor and control inventory relating to media, marketing, CTF vehicles and training vehicles.
• Ensure accurate accounting and appropriate end use or disposal of such inventory.

Pricing/Discount & incentives

• Manage pricing for the vehicle business, including SAP updates and pricing-update automation.
• Share new price lists with Sales, Dealer Development and other relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain complete and accurate pricing files.
• Ensure dealership readiness for invoicing, including banking, pricing and dealer setup.
• Manage discounts and incentives through monthly budgeting, forecasting and provisioning.
• Track and actualize expenditure, analyze spend, and provide management insights for review.

Warranty

• Complete monthly warranty actualization and analyze budget versus actual performance, including cost-per-vehicle trends for each carline.
• Coordinate with Quality, After Sales and SCM stakeholders on operations and vendor chargebacks.
• Monitor goodwill and campaign expenditure and ensure that each item is supported by an appropriate business rationale.

Month-End Closing Activities

• Prepare provisions for warranty, discounts and incentives, and freight.
• Reconcile the sales register with the general ledger for revenue and cost of goods sold.
• Post month-end entries for revenue and cost-of-goods-sold reversals.
• Analyze warranty, discounts and incentives, freight and RSA.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Coordinate volume forecasts with the Sales team.
• Prepare the annual contribution-margin budget and monthly forecasts.