Director, Acctg Shared Service
Company: Wabash
Location: Lafayette
Posted on: May 3, 2025
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Job Description:
About the Role:
As the Director Accounting, Shared Services you will be responsible
for the day-to-day leadership, management, and meeting KPI's with
focus on Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable (including the
Corporate Card Program and Concur platform) and Payroll functions.
In this role, you will ensure an appropriate control environment
and oversight of various cash flow results while driving
operational efficiency across all responsible areas, strengthening
process, the control environment and providing ongoing leadership
and functional oversight.
Activities include, but are not limited to, creating, and executing
a clear strategy for the Shared Services activities that delivers
high quality, effective services to all external and internal
customers. Direct the overall performance of services and ensure
accountabilities for the quality, integrity, and accuracy of the
services provided.
This position will collaborate on a regular basis with various
cross functional teams (i.e., sales operations, human resources,
benefits, purchasing, receiving, strategic sourcing, etc.).
Your 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
Let's Talk About Your Qualifications:
Leadership Attributes:
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Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:
Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for
its associates and applicants without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or
other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local
law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate
criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied
equally to similarly situated associates.
Keywords: Wabash, Lafayette , Director, Acctg Shared Service, Executive , Lafayette, Indiana
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