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Location:
Northridge - California, USA
Job Family:
Finance
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
P3
Job ID:
R-44102-2025

Description & Requirements

A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

  • Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel
  • Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
  • Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

About the Role

As Analyst, Controlling, Sales, North America, you are responsible for conducting detailed financial analysis of customer programs and promotions, preparing insights, analyzing promotional spending, preparing sales and margin analysis reports, and making recommendations. The position will collaborate with commercial business leaders to support the growth and profit objectives for the North America region of the Lifestyle Consumer Audio business. The role also supports major corporate and global initiatives. The North America region is headquartered in Northridge, CA.

What You Will Do

  • Financial Planning and Analysis – Conduct detailed financial analysis, including forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis to support decision-making and long-term planning.  Prepare, review, and provide insights into profitability, including highlighting major trends, key drivers, and providing recommendations for improvement and/or actions.
  • Trade Promotion Forecasting, Analysis, and Reporting – Prepare and analyze monthly and annual budgets of promotional spend and deliver monthly and quarterly sales and promotional spend impact to sales and cm reporting across products, customers, and sales channels. 
  • Data Analysis – Analyze financial data, trends, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to assist management in understanding business performance and identifying areas for improvement. Maintain complex and detailed financial models and be able to create information from data.   
  • Review programs – Review and analyze promotional spending for customers and sales channels, including investments to drive profitable growth. Work with commercial leaders to provide solutions to business challenges and opportunities. Able to independently research and transform data into insights and actions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams - Gather data and provide analysis, explanations, insights, and solutions to support growth and profitability initiatives.
  • Support ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects - Partner with commercial leaders to measure and deliver operational improvements. 

What You Need to Be Successful

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or equivalent, MBA a plus

  • Minimum 5 yrs progressive experience in financial planning and analysis and customer trade promotion analysis 
  • Proficiency in financial modeling skills and exceptional analytical skills with advanced Excel capabilities required (eg, Pivot tables, index, lookups, offsets, arrays, what if scenarios, etc.)
  • Proficiency in managing large data sets to extract, clean, and analyze financial data
  • Strong knowledge of SAP, EPM, Qlik Sense, and similar enterprise, reporting, and forecasting tools.
  • Financial acumen skills, including experience with preparing financial reports and analysis
  • Ability to communicate complex financial concepts effectively across different organizational levels, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders. 
  • Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced environment
  • A self-starter and able to initiate new ideas and improvements

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal


Bonus Points if You Have 

  • Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Consumer Products, or related industries
  • Worked in Finance at a large retailer (eg, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target)

  • Knowledge of visualization tools (eg, Tableau)


 What Makes You Eligible

  • Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestic
  • Be willing to work 3-5 days a month in an office in Northridge, CA

  • Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
     

​What We Offer

  • Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location

  • Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
  • Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
  • Competitive wellness benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
  • An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

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Pay Transparency
$ 82,500 - $ 121,000

Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.

Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.

Benefits
HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

You Belong Here 
HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.  
 
About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology 
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.  

 Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other. 

 If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!  

Important Notice: Recruitment Scams
Please be aware that HARMAN recruiters will always communicate with you from an '@harman.com' email address. We will never ask for payments, banking, credit card, personal financial information or access to your LinkedIn/email account during the screening, interview, or recruitment process. If you are asked for such information or receive communication from an email address not ending in '@harman.com' about a job with HARMAN, please cease communication immediately and report the incident to us through: harmancareers@harman.com. 

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. HARMAN strives to hire the best qualified candidates and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse marketplaces and communities of our global colleagues and customers.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.HARMAN attracts, hires, and develops employees based on merit, qualifications and job-related performance.(www.harman.com)