As a Senior Analyst on the Gross Margin team, you will be a key contributor to the accuracy and strategic visibility of the company’s profitability. This role is designed for a finance professional who excels at the intersection of traditional commercial finance and modern data automation within a complex manufacturing environment.
You will support the end-to-end Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) forecast and help coordinate the critical inputs that drive our financial outlook. A primary focus of this role is contributing to the team’s digital transformation—assisting in the migration of legacy manual workflows toward an AI-enabled, automated, and scalable forecasting environment.
Why This Role Matters
- Own the Gross Margin Lens on Performance: Help build and maintain the end‑to‑end COGS and gross margin forecast so leaders understand how product, volume, and cost decisions translate into profitability and our path‑to‑scale.
- Connect Operations to Financial Outcomes: Translate complex operational drivers—material, labor, logistics, and manufacturing dynamics—into clear financial insights that guide pricing, mix, and product strategy decisions.
- Advance AI-Enabled Finance Transformation: Move high‑impact forecasting and reporting workflows from offline spreadsheets into automated, cloud‑based data environments, leveraging AI to reduce manual effort and improve forecast accuracy.
- Strengthen Financial Rigor and Accountability: Partner with Product Development, Accounting, and FP&A to explain variances, sharpen forecast quality, and reinforce a data‑driven culture across the organization.
- Unlock Better Scenario Planning: Use structured models and robust data pipelines to run strategic “what‑if” scenarios that help Finance and business leaders evaluate tradeoffs and make faster, higher‑confidence decisions.
Financial Analysis & Partnership
- Forecast Execution: Support the maintenance and delivery of the gross margin and COGS forecast, ensuring data integrity and alignment with corporate targets.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with partners across Product Development, Product Strategy, and Operations Finance to gather, validate, and track the progress of key forecast assumptions.
- Performance Analysis: Partner with Accounting and FP&A during quarter-end close to identify and explain variances between actual results and the forecast.
- Strategic Scenarios: Leverage the forecast to run financial scenarios that help the team provide data-driven recommendations for strategic decision-making.
Automation & Process Improvement
- Digital Enablement: Actively contribute to the transition of financial models from Excel into automated, cloud-based data environments.
- Data Integrity: Help build and manage the data flows required to ingest complex datasets, ensuring the forecast is supported by reliable, automated sources.
- Workflow Optimization: Identify and implement process improvements that streamline reporting cycles and improve the speed and transparency of the gross margin process.
Required Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience: 3-4 years of experience in Corporate Finance or FP&A, ideally within a manufacturing, hardware, or technology environment.
- Technical Skills: Demonstrated expertise in building AI-enabled financial applications and automated workflows using Python, SQL, or similar data science frameworks.
- Systems: Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar cloud-based data environments is required.
- Modeling: Advanced financial modeling skills, with the ability to translate physical operational drivers into clear financial outcomes.
Core Competencies
- Attention to Detail: An uncompromising commitment to accuracy; you ensure the integrity of the data before it reaches the final output.
- Communication: Ability to distill complex data and technical workflows into clear, concise updates for stakeholders.
- Problem-Solving: A proactive approach to troubleshooting data discrepancies and refining manual processes.
- Collaborative Spirit: Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build effective relationships with non-finance business partners.
The salary range for this role is USD 98,500-123,100 for applicants in Illinois, Michigan, and Atlanta. This is the lowest-to-highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including but not limited to specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.
The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual performance bonus and equity awards.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits, including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective on the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com .
You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than June 19th, 2026.