Inside the Role
Inside the Role
Lead the department responsible for providing Daimler Truck North America leadership with a deep understanding of actual financial performance, clear insight into the outlook, and actionable steering impulses to set and achieve financial targets. This role connects financial planning and reporting with business drivers, strategic objectives, capital-market expectations, and management action.
As a senior Finance leader, this position serves as a key interface among DTNA executive leadership, Business Unit and functional Finance teams, and central Daimler Truck Finance. The role leads DTNA-wide planning and forecasting, executive performance reporting, cash forecasting and steering, and major Finance transformation priorities, including the redesign, simplification, and harmonization of Finance planning and financial performance-management processes and the digital transformation of Finance. The position also leads and develops a geographically dispersed department and helps shape a Finance culture grounded in business partnership, trust, constructive challenge, accountability, and ownership.
Posting Information
We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.
We Take Care of Our Team
Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience
Benefits include annual variable pay bonus program; company paid company vehicle with insurance and fuel card; 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age; non-qualified deferred compensation plan with company contribution of 7% of variable pay; starting at 4 weeks paid vacation; 13+ holidays per calendar year; Paid parental leave; employee assistance program; comprehensive health care plans and wellness programs; onsite fitness (at some locations); tuition assistance program; volunteer paid time off; short-term and long-term disability plans.
What You Drive at DTNA
Lead DTNA financial planning and financial performance steering, including long-range planning, annual business planning, forecasts, scenario analysis, and target-setting processes covering the full income statement and balance sheet.
Provide executive leadership with a forward-looking and decision-oriented view of DTNA performance, translating financial and operational developments into clear business drivers, risks, opportunities, scenarios, recommendations, and required management actions.
Lead the consolidation, analysis, and communication of DTNA financial performance and outlook for DTNA executive management, Finance leadership, Daimler Truck Board of Management, Supervisory Board processes where applicable, and central Daimler Truck Finance.
Serve as a strategic Finance partner to DTNA leadership and Business Units, constructively challenging assumptions, connecting business decisions to financial outcomes, and co-owning the development and follow-through of countermeasures with the business.
Lead the continued evolution of DTNA’s planning model and the simplification, standardization, and harmonization of end-to-end Finance planning and financial performance-management processes, advancing the transition from traditional bottom-up budgeting toward top-down, target-driven, value-driver-based planning and financial performance management.
Strengthen forecast quality, transparency, and accountability across Finance and the business, including clearer ownership of assumptions, earlier identification of financial performance changes, disciplined risk and opportunity management, and systematic learning from forecast deviations.
Lead cash forecasting and steering across DTNA, partnering with Treasury, Accounting, Business Unit Finance, and operational functions to improve forecast quality, working-capital transparency, driver…