Senior Manager, North America Financial Shared Services

At Greenbrier we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE : GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.

Greenbriers heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.

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Summary

The Senior Manager of North America (N.A.) Financial Shared Services will oversee and manage the daily N.A. accounts payable and accounts receivable functions including crucial processes system functionality reporting and internal controls related to cash and procure-to-pay. The Senior Manager will be vital in establishing and implementing a financial shared services function across the companys North American business supporting a vision of transformational change management.

Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.

• Oversee the daily operations of the North America financial shared services function including accounts payable accounts receivable cash application collections and related transactional accounting and business support ensuring timely and accurate processing.
• Develop and oversee processes and internal controls over financial reporting for procure-to-pay order-to-cash and other relevant methods.
• Implement and apply new and updated policies and provide training to shared services teams ensuring the policies and processes are consistent across all the N.A. legal entities.
• Develop and maintain efficient and effective internal controls over financial reporting to mitigate company risks and ensure compliance with governance and requirements with focus on creating common controls that could be relied upon across N.A.
• Establish monitor and report key performance indicators (KPIs) for each functional area ensuring alignment with service level agreements we may have or enter into.
• Prepare update and review reporting tailored for executive management Board of Directors and Committee meetings. Support various internal and external reporting including monthly working capital management meetings.
• Provide and train the function to be a customer focused service delivery model across all legal entities and businesses in North America
• Provide effective leadership and support to the shared services teams fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and develop team members offering guidance and support to enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Provide subject matter expertise on business requirement definition process design implementation of process and organizational change and timing of impacted processes across all work teams.
• Proactively drive and implement key financial reporting and business initiatives as part of process transformation and continuous improvement.
• Support internal and external audits to ensure an efficient annual financial statement and SOX compliance audit.
• Support developing and implementing shared service groups related systematic improvements and process efficiencies.
• Partner closely and regularly with business and functional teams collaborating with the global finance and operational teams to track and report financial performance working capital management and other financial reporting and business analyses.
• As needed support executive leadership with various financial reporting requests transaction work special projects and business analysis projects.

Qualifications

The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned dutie s.

Minimum Qualifications

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Activities and Requirements

Frequency Key

Not Applicable : Activity is not applicable to this occupation

Occasionally : Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5 hours / day)

Frequently : Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5- 5.5 hours / day)

Constantly : Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5 hours / day)

Working Postures

Lift / Carry Requirements

Push / Pull Requirements

EOE including Vet / Disability

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Required Experience :

Senior Manager

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1