Director, Acctg Shared Service

Key Responsibilities

• Nurture talent, build and maintain capability and engage in succession planning of the Shared Services staff with a clear focus on performing professionally, ethically and delivering excellent customer centric outcomes.
• Evaluate and respond effectively to highly sensitive and contentious issues to ensure that financial, reputational, and business risks are minimized.
• Provide appropriate and sound advice, recommendations, analysis, and expert commentary to support informed executive decision-making and planning.
• Achieve a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and excellence in customer service, performance, and safety across a diverse portfolio of activities and services, and a substantial and diverse workforce.
• People leadership: motivating, influencing, and empowering a best in class shared services unit.
• Position the department to sustain high performance through a high-growth period, changing circumstances such as process changes, system upgrades, or the integration of an acquisition.
• Lead the shared service integration activities associated with any acquisitions.
• Establish goals and monitor key performance metrics to measure the quality and efficiency of the functional processes.
• Ensure financial processes follow company policies and procedures, including Sarbanes Oxley.
• Collaborate with the leadership across the organization to achieve the company’s goals including bringing insights and ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the business.
• Standardize and document financial processes and procedures, building out controls and applying best practices to ensure effective department workflows within a finance team.
• Continually look at ways to improve process effectiveness and efficiency, while maintaining anticipated results.
• Encourage the development of associates, nurturing continued innovative thinking, process improvement, and self-development.
• Lead cross functional projects to support corporate strategic initiatives.
• Prepare/review journal entries and reconciliations.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred Major: accounting, business administration, finance, or related field.)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in accounting or related field
• Experience with leadership roles and display problem-solving capabilities along with process improvement efforts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with employees and vendors

Leadership Attributes:

At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:

• Embrace Diversity and Inclusion – Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness
• Seek to Listen – Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions
• Always Learn – Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo
• Be Authentic – Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do
• Win Together – Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision.
• Life Insurance.
• Disability Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• 401k (with company match)