Sr. Analyst, Asset Sustainment
General Motors
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Job Description
Position summary
The Sr. Analyst, Asset Sustainment supports General Motors’ facility asset sustainment planning and investment prioritization across manufacturing, CCA, and non-manufacturing environments. This role combines portfolio planning, financial analysis, project coordination, risk-based prioritization, data management, and stakeholder engagement.
The successful candidate will help translate asset condition, operational risk, project needs, and financial constraints into a clear and executable Non-Product Portfolio (NPP) Asset Sustainment plan annually. The role will work closely with Facilities Operations, Construction, Finance, project managers, site leaders, and corporate subject-matter experts.
Two individuals will be hired into this role. They will be cross-trained and expected to provide coverage for one another across the annual planning cycle.
Key responsibilities
Asset sustainment planning
- Support the annual and multi-year NPP Asset Sustainment Planning process.
- Coordinate project intake, site submissions, stakeholder reviews, early engineering reviews, and planning-cycle deliverables.
- Collect, validate, and document site rankings, project assumptions, risk information, cost estimates, timing, and execution constraints.
- Analyze project needs across asset categories, sites, risk levels, and funding scenarios.
- Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials for leadership reviews.
- Support the evaluation of unplanned requests, deferrals, carryover, and multi-year project allocations.
- Help maintain an executable plan as project conditions, funding, and priorities change.
Financial and portfolio analysis
- Support budget tracking, forecast updates, funding allocations, carryover, deferrals, and monthly portfolio reporting.
- Reconcile project information across planning, project, and financial systems.
- Prepare analysis for capital approval packages, funding transfers, long-term planning submissions, and portfolio reviews.
- Identify forecast variances, data inconsistencies, funding risks, and opportunities to improve portfolio execution.
- Partner with ICC Finance to ensure that planning information is complete, timely, and aligned with financial requirements.
- Maintain accurate documentation and audit support for portfolio and funding decisions.
Tools, data, and reporting
- Maintain data quality in the Project Support Tool and related planning systems.
- Support data integration, reporting, dashboards, and continuous improvement of planning tools.
- Analyze trends in asset condition, project requests, risk, funding, execution, and carryover.
- Help improve data definitions, reporting standards, and planning workflows.
- Partner with Governance and Data Analytics to improve the use of asset-health and lifecycle information in investment decisions.
Stakeholder coordination
- Build effective working relationships with Facilities Operations, Construction, Finance, site teams, project managers, and technical subject-matter experts.
- Facilitate meetings, document decisions, track actions, and drive closure on planning deliverables.
- Communicate complex assumptions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide responsive support to project managers and site stakeholders throughout the planning and funding cycle.
Continuous improvement and succession coverage
- Document core planning processes, decision principles, recurring activities, and stakeholder interfaces.
- Cross-train with the other Sr. Analyst, Asset Sustainment, to provide reliable coverage.
- Take increasing ownership of portions of the annual planning cycle and portfolio reporting process.
- Contribute to improvements that make Asset Sustainment planning more transparent, repeatable, efficient, and scalable.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Operations, Facilities Management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, capital planning, project portfolio management, business operations, facilities, infrastructure, or a related analytical role.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations.
- Experience managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and related reporting or analytical tools.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across functions and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a manufacturing, facilities, construction, infrastructure, real estate, or other capital-intensive environment.
- Experience with project portfolio management, capital budgeting, financial forecasting, or investment prioritization.
- Familiarity with enterprise asset management, computerized maintenance management, business intelligence, or project planning systems.
- Experience with risk-based prioritization, condition assessment, preventive maintenance, reliability, or lifecycle-cost analysis.
- Experience preparing executive presentations and decision materials.
Success measures
- Accurate, timely, and decision-ready planning and financial information.
- Reliable execution of assigned NPP planning-cycle deliverables.
- Improved visibility to project risk, funding, forecast, carryover, and execution status.
- Effective cross-coverage with the other Sr. Analyst, Asset Sustainment.
- Demonstrated progression toward independent ownership of major planning-cycle responsibilities.
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