Fp&A Manager - North America

Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin – an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments!

We want to build a team of people with purpose. That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a FP&A Manager North America to join our team in the US (remote in EST or CST time zone). If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

As the FP&A Manager for North America you are responsible for the overall coordination of month-end managerial reporting, forecasting, planning and budgeting processes for North America. Provide high quality management information on business drivers and key metrics, enabling fact-based decisions at both territory and regional leadership level.

Further responsibilities include:

• Design and execute planning and performance measurement framework in support and alignment of short and long-term financial goals.
• Responsibility for driving financial transparency, standardization of reporting across the region, provide insight and analysis into business drivers and key metrics bridging with savviness and system expertise the information from financial systems of North America (legacy tools and AS400) into managerial system, currently Wavin BPC and Orbia Finance Point.
• Flagging and investigating financial and operational performance variance issues and assisting business leaders in taking appropriate corrective actions.
• Oversee development and reporting of financial package and performance management dashboards whilst aligning the definitions and accounts across different territories.
• Identify, simplify and implement process re-engineering opportunities through automation, standardization, and innovation.
• Manage the training, development and workload of planning & reporting team staff.
• Coordinating the forecast, planning & business control cycle, including monthly managerial reporting packs, preparation of review meetings, budgeting and strategic planning for North America.
• Work directly with territories with detailed, bottom-up budgets and forecasts to support short-term and long- term strategic planning for the region.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement cycle of the North America Finance function.
• Support our finance team in M&A related tasks.
• Ensure integrity and accuracy of reported results and reconciliation vs budget, forecast and prior year.

Competencies

• Proactive, able to multi-task under dynamic environment with high sense of urgency and ability to prioritize..
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, other languages such as Spanish are beneficial.
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%)
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems (such as SAP ECC/S4Hana) and databases and reporting/analysis packages (such as SAP BPC Suite or Central Finance).
• Experience in building scalable financial planning, analysis and reporting models and processes to facilitate company growth.
• University degree in finance/ economics, accounting or equivalent is preferred.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail, accuracy and accountability balanced with educated business judgment.
• Several years of relevant experience in finance business partnering, planning and management reporting roles or dedicated FP&A roles.
• IFRS accounting and reporting experience.

Wavin offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Wavin! At Wavin, we encourage all our employees to develop their talent and to become the best version of themselves with great innovative programs. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Wavin is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building and Infrastructure business Wavin is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, Wavin is advancing life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Wavin collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Wavin has 12,000+ employees around 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Wavin is a business of Orbia. A company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura) sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, with global headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $9.6 billion in revenue in 2022.

Contact us

If you have questions or you want to know more about the position, please contact Teppo Laakso, Manager Global Talent Acquisition. To apply, use the apply-button.

Acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated and unsolicited applications from third parties will not be accepted.