Senior manager, FP&A - Inspection Technologies

Job Description:
The Senior Manager, FP&A is a global, hands-on role responsible for driving budgeting, forecasting, monthly performance reviews, management reporting, and decision support across regions, functions, and business units. This individual will operate as a preparer, reviewer, and trusted business partner—personally executing critical analyses, reviewing team output, identifying root causes, and recommending practical solutions that improve financial performance, forecast accuracy, accountability, and decision-making. The role will partner closely with functional and business leaders to translate financial insights into actions and measurable results. Key projects include implementing a new ERP system and supporting the transition of finance processes and services from a Transition Services Agreement (TSA).
Job Responsibilities:
Drive global budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring consistent assumptions, disciplined execution, clear accountability, and timely delivery
Prepare and review complex financial analyses and executive-ready deliverables, reviewing team output, and stepping into details when needed to achieve results
Lead monthly performance reviews by analyzing actual results against budget, forecast, and prior periods; identify root causes, risks, and opportunities; and drive corrective actions through completion
Partner with functional and business leaders to understand financial and operational challenges, evaluate alternatives, and recommend practical, actionable solutions that improve performance; embed the relationship conversations into our processes
Develop insightful management reporting, dashboards, key performance indicators, and scenario analyses that clearly communicate business drivers and support timely decisions
Translate financial and operational data into forward-looking insights, recommendations, and action plans that support growth, profitability, cash flow, and strategic priorities
Support FP&A and cross-functional workstreams for implementation of a new ERP system, including process design, planning and reporting requirements, data readiness, testing, training, deployment, and maintenance
Support the transition of FP&A processes from the TSA, including knowledge transfer, resource planning, process ownership, and achievement of transition milestones
Identify and implement planning, reporting, and analytical improvements that increase forecast accuracy, efficiency, transparency, scalability, and business value
Partner with accounting and controllership teams during the monthly close to ensure timely results, understand key drivers, and connect actual performance to the forecast and outlook
Set clear priorities, hold team members and business partners accountable, remove barriers, and follow through to deliver measurable results
Lead, coach, and develop team members while maintaining personal ownership of critical deliverables, complex analyses, and high-priority issues; support integration into Wabtec through knowledge sharing
Lead ad hoc analyses and cross-functional projects that influence business priorities and improve financial and operational performance
Job Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business required; MBA or CPA preferred
Minimum of 6 years of progressive FP&A, finance, accounting or related experience in a global environment
Working knowledge of financial accounting, monthly close, U.S. GAAP, and internal controls, with the ability to connect accounting results to business performance
Excellent prioritization, analytical capability, and communication skills required; experience with acquisition, integration, and transformation preferred
Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Epicor, Power BI, Hyperion, OneStream, and other planning, reporting, or analytical systems is a plus

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No