Business Analyst - Forge

This role serves as the primary interface between FORGE Product Management and ATP Finance. The analyst will support the financial lifecycle of development and deployment spending, from project submission and approval through purchase orders, completed work, expenditure tracking, and executive reporting.

Product Funding and Financial Management

• Partner with Product Managers across six FORGE product families to develop and maintain product financial plans.

• Actively track approved, authorized, committed, and spent funding across the product portfolio.

• Monitor funding progression from approved investment through purchase order issuance, work completion, and financial closeout.

• Maintain financial glidepaths, forecasts, and investment tracking dashboards for development and deployment funding.

• Identify budget variances, funding risks, and gaps, and provide timely visibility to Product Leadership and ATP Finance.

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual portfolio financial reviews.

Project Approval and Governance

• Coordinate preparation and submission of non-production development and deployment projects for funding approval.

• Collect required inputs and support creation of project scopes, financial justifications, capitalization/expense classifications, and funding documentation.

• Track projects through approval, authorization, procurement, execution, completion, and closeout.

• Serve as the primary FORGE contact for ATP Finance and represent product funding status in recurring finance reviews.

• Partner with Finance, Purchasing, Product Managers, and delivery teams to resolve financial process issues and maintain accurate project status.

• Maintain standardized governance records and portfolio-level status reporting.

Product Business Cases and Value Analysis

• Support Product Managers in developing and maintaining product business cases on a quarterly cadence.

• Help quantify customer value, operational benefits, cost savings, risk reduction, investment requirements, deployment costs, and potential revenue opportunities.

• Translate use-case opportunities into measurable product business value and financial justification.

• Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses to support product investment recommendations.

• Track financial and business outcomes against approved business cases and identify material changes in assumptions.

• Partner with Product Managers to conduct market research and opportunity assessments.

• Create structured analyses that support product prioritization, roadmap decisions, and investment discussions.

Executive Reporting and Business Intelligence

• Create and maintain portfolio dashboards, scorecards, and leadership review materials.

• Provide clear reporting on funding utilization, project lifecycle status, business case health, deployment investment, and expected value.

• Transform financial and operational data into concise insights, risks, and recommended actions.

• Improve reporting accuracy and efficiency through Power BI, Excel, automation, and AI-enabled tools.

• Support quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, portfolio reviews, and other FORGE operating rhythms.

• Develop common financial definitions, templates, metrics, and reporting practices across product families.

• Coordinate information across Product, Finance, Purchasing, Engineering, and Operations stakeholders.

• Identify and implement continuous improvements to portfolio governance, reporting, and financial management processes.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis, finance, portfolio management, product operations, accounting, or a related discipline.
• Professional fluency in English, written and verbal.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience creating dashboards, reports, and executive-ready presentations.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across technical, product, and finance teams.

• Preferred
• Experience supporting a product organization, technology development portfolio, or manufacturing environment.
• Experience with budgets, forecasts, project accounting, procurement, and financial reporting.
• Understanding of business case development, investment analysis, and TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Ford financial processes, non-production project governance, I-ERP, Ariba, and procurement tools.
• Experience using AI-assisted analytics, reporting, or workflow automation.