WGS Finance Manager

Posted:
9/4/2024, 3:01:23 AM

Location(s):
Alberta, Canada ⋅ Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Finance & Banking

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.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Role Summary/Purpose :

The WGS/WLS Finance Manager will support revenue, cost, and accounts receivable financial execution and tracking.  In this role you will be responsible for creating, simplifying, and managing cross functional processes to align business execution with financial reporting requirements. You will serve as the tie between the global WGS and local WLS operations and global services FP&A leaders to track financial performance by customer.

Essential Responsibilities :

  • Partner with the operations team to drive operating performance, and ensure transactional accuracy of revenue, cost, and AR for each program
  • 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
  • Manage Intercompany profit and profit eliminations
  • Assist in on-going oracle ERP migration initiatives
  • 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.

Qualifications/Requirements :

  • Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 6 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.

Wabtec Corporation

Website: https://www.wabteccorp.com/

Headquarter Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1872

IPO Status: Public

Industries: Electronics ⋅ Freight Service ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Industrial ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Mining ⋅ Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing ⋅ Transportation