Digital Intelligence Finance Director

It’s not just about your career or job titleIt’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who will you be working with?

You will work with a high-performance team, being a key member of the finance team, with responsibility for providing strategic leadership to the finance function and beyond and playing a pivotal role in the ongoing sustainable success of the business.

How will you make a difference?

The Finance Leader - Logistics & Analytics will lead the finance function to deliver on the company’s growth plans. In addition to bringing functional expertise, the individual in this role will play a collaborative role in driving business results and profitability. The Finance Leader - Logistics & Analytics will act as a true business partner, pushing the strategy and the value optimization/creation.

What will your typical day look like?

Act as a trusted business partner to the Group President and senior leadership team, contributing to all aspects of business management and development.

Deliver insightful financial analysis that drives strategic decisions and meaningful business improvements.

Provide high-quality financial guidance and support to both business and functional teams.

Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Champion continuous improvement across people, processes, and systems, acting as a catalyst for change.

Lead M&A transactions from strategy through execution, including post-acquisition integration.

Drive operational efficiency while balancing cost management and service delivery.

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.

Ensure financial integrity and provide fact-based logic to support strategic decision-making.

What do we want to know about you?

Leading People
- Identifies and leverages individual strengths and potential within the team
- Engages the team in discussions around the longer-term strategy and how they can contribute
- Gives team members decision-making authority and accountability within their areas of responsibility
- Invites the team to recommend ways to solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or generate new ideas
- Collaborating and Influencing
- Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement
- Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome
- Engages others in open dialogue and adapts their own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns
- Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them

Driving Results
- Acts to surpass team goals, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible
- Sets continually higher goals for the team that are ambitious but achievable
- Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded
- Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets
- Support & lead M&A activities to drive inorganic growth

Other Personal Traits
- Strategic partner who sees and can communicate the big picture.
- Fact-based data driving decision maker with an eye for detail.
- Change management and strong program/project management skills. Drives for sustainable implementation and embedding of change to continuously improve performance and organization.
- Is comfortable to challenge the status quo and comes with out-of-the-box solutions.
- Strong results orientation. Sets clear targets and holds people accountable.
- Builds strong relationships and can work and engage people while working in global teams

Other Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Extensive experience in a financial position
- Proficient in US GAAP
- Controllership experience in a multinational company
- Familiar and working knowledge of Oracle and HFM Reporting consolidation tool
- Experience in project accounting
- Proven expertise in using remote collaboration tools for communication
- Strong information systems/ERP system experience
- Interpersonal and supervisory skills, such as coaching, providing feedback, and evaluating the performance of subordinates, and the ability to coach and motivate employees
- Deals well with ambiguity; can effectively cope with change; can decide and act without having the total picture; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Strong commitment to business ethics and integrity

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Who are we?
- Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of eq