Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com .

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Role Summary/Purpose :

The WGS Finance Manager will support the WGS P&L, including orders, revenue, cost, margin, and cash financial execution and tracking. In this role, you will integrate and develop processes that meet account/business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within finance, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategy.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Serve as a business partner to the WGS team, including operating and commercial teams, to drive business initiatives, growth, and profitability

• Partner with the operations team to drive operating performance, and ensure transactional accuracy of revenue, cost, and AR

• Partner with global services FP&A leaders to create process for reporting and forecasting financials by customer for regular business reviews

• Support monthly and quarterly closes analyzing actuals vs estimates and booking manual journal entries

• Develop tools that simplify financial forecasting that can be leveraged across the business

• Develop estimates, operating plans, forecasts for quarters & STRAP growth period, and analyze variances to forecasts and determine key actions to achieve such forecasts.

• Manage Intercompany profit and profit eliminations

• Drive a mindset of process simplification, digitization and automation within the Services business and finance organizations through expanded use of Qlikview, Denodo, Power BI and other tools.

• Partner with shared services team to support back-end financial processes, including billing reconciliations, account reconciliations, manual journal entries and auditing

Qualifications/Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in corporate business environment

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, Identify, and resolve complex financial issues

• Experience managing through organizational change and transitions.

• Strong accounting and system knowledge with process management experience

Desired Characteristics :

• Ability to anticipate, identify, and resolve complex financial issues

• Self starter, ability to leverage cross functional relationships to solve problems

• Partnered and worked closely with customer or commercial groups

• Established analytical and project management ability with a simplification / automation / digitization mindset

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Prior business and/or ORACLE ERP experience

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.