Owns financial planning, freight forecasting, accruals, logistics cost metrics, investment business cases, and variance analysis for the Logistics organization. Partners with operations, supply chain, engineering, and accounting leaders on warehouse, 3PL, transportation, inventory, and manufacturing logistics costs. Presents financial reviews and tracks efficiency, savings, capital spending, and returns as production scales.
About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
Position Overview
We are looking for an analytical and practical Senior Financial Analyst to join the Harbinger FP&A team. You will be the finance business partner to our Logistics team, which covers material handling, warehouse management, third-party logistics (3PL) locations, receiving of all goods, outsourced manufacturing logistics, and shipment of finished goods. This team is scaling our warehouse and logistics network as Harbinger scales production.
You will sit on the leadership team of the business you support. You will own their financial plan, help leaders understand how their decisions show up in the numbers, and build the metrics that show whether we are getting more efficient as volume grows. This role suits someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, likes working directly with operations and engineering teams, and wants to build something rather than maintain it.
Passion for our mission and vision is required.
What You'll Do:
- Own annual and multi-year financial planning (headcount, OPEX, and capital) for the Logistics team, including warehousing, material handling, receiving, and 3PL locations.
- Own the inbound and outbound freight forecast and month-end freight accruals, including spend by mode (truckload, LTL, and expedited) and tracking of premium and expedited freight.
- Build operating and financial metrics such as cost per part received, stored, and shipped, 3PL cost per unit, and finished goods freight cost per vehicle, and track how they change as volume grows.
- Build and track business cases for warehouse, material handling, and automation investments, including network expansion and in-house versus 3PL decisions, and track actual capital spend and returns against those cases.
- Measure 3PL, carrier, and outsourced manufacturing logistics costs and service performance against plan and contracted rates, and track realized savings.
- Partner with Logistics and Accounting so receiving, inventory in transit, inventory held at third-party locations, capitalized inbound freight, and finished goods shipping costs are accurately reflected in the financials, and help explain inventory adjustments at our warehouses and 3PL locations.
- Analyze and explain variances to plan and forecast, with a focus on drivers and actions the business can take.
- Create and present content for business reviews and finance reviews.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a STEM field
- 3-5+ years of financial analysis experience
- Advanced Excel skills, including building models with multiple inputs, constraints, and scenarios
- Experience with data mining using SQL
- Experience partnering directly with operations, supply chain, logistics, or engineering leaders
- Working knowledge of transportation modes and freight cost drivers
- Strong written communication and presentation skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in a related field
- Experience with logistics, freight, warehouse, or distribution finance, including unit cost and capacity modeling
- Experience with capital business cases for automation or facilities
- Experience managing or analyzing 3PL contracts, outsourced manufacturing, or contract logistics costs
- Experience with a transportation management system (TMS) or warehouse management system (WMS)
- Experience at an automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier, or in high-rate manufacturing, EV, or industrial companies
Key Benefits & Perks:
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
- Early-stage Stock Options
- Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Wellness & Fertility Benefits
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens
California Pay Range
$100,000—$120,000 USD
Equal Opportunity
Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].
Candidate Data Privacy
Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.
Harbinger Garden Grove, California, USA Office
12821 Knott St, Garden Grove, CA, United States, 92841
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