M&A Strategic Finance Manager

DEUTZ is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative drive systems. Its core competences are the development, production, distribution and servicing of diesel, gas and electric drive trains for professional applications that is used in construction equipment, agricultural machinery, material handling equipment, stationary equipment, commercial vehicles, rail vehicles and other applications.

Location:

Norcross

DEUTZ is expanding its Service business across the Americas, growing both organically and through acquisition, and creating a Strategic Finance Manager role to help lead the financial engine behind that growth. This is a build-it-from-scratch opportunity for a driven, entrepreneurial finance professional who wants ownership, visibility, and the chance to shape how a fast-scaling business unit runs its finances.

The M&A Strategic Finance Manager will sit at the financial center of our Americas Service acquisitions, partnering on deal evaluation, integration, and performance, with the potential to gain exposure into our other business units:
Energy, Engines, and New Tech. This role will play an integral part in identifying, developing and executing strategic financial improvement initiatives across DEUTZ’s Americas Service acquisition businesses. This is a high-impact and high-visibility role, with the ability to work cross-functionally with various teams across DEUTZ, including Finance, Accounting, Transformation, and Strategy, in addition to business leadership at the acquisition level.

Individual contributor

• Anticipate domestic and international travel up to 50%

• Serve as a strategic finance connection point between all acquisitions within Americas Service, sharing best practices and supporting cross-business initiatives as they arise.
• Lead and support strategic financial initiatives across the Americas Service organization, from business-case development to execution.
• Build the analytical foundation, models, scenarios, and KPIs that leadership uses to make capital allocation, pricing, and investment decisions.
• Partner with business leaders to translate operational plans into financial forecasts and targets.
• Support acquisition activity within Americas Service: financial due diligence, valuation and investment returns analysis, and synergy modeling.
• Own key parts of the finance workstream for post-close integration, executing key diligence-identified workflows.
• Own post-acquisition financial performance tracking against the synergies, working capital, capital investment, and other value-creation assumptions; identifying variances and partner with leadership to develop corrective actions.
• Analyze financial performance across the Service acquisition businesses, including, revenue, margin, cost structure and net working capital.
• Assist with developing and maintaining management reporting, budgeting, and forecasting cycles for the unit.
• Utilize financial performance KPIs to identify areas for improvement and future strategic finance initiatives.
• Deliver clear, decision-ready analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Develop and execute planned financial and accounting strategies for a growing, multi-entity business.
• Collaborate with existing finance resources to improve or establish financial systems, processes, controls, reporting infrastructure, forecasting tools, and data flows to support scale.
• Ensure accounting practices are sound, compliant, and consistent as the business grows and integrates acquisitions.
• Support various finance performance initiatives to help achieve financial targets.
• Participate in regular reviews with DEUTZ and acquisition leadership discussing financial and…