Senior Manager, FP&A

Job Summary:

This role is a senior leadership position within Messer Americas Finance, combining core FP&A leadership and business partnering with responsibility for strengthening the commercial and operational finance capabilities that support decision-making. The Senior Manager, FP&A will lead planning, performance management, reporting, and decision support for the U.S. business while helping build a more scalable, automated, and data-driven finance operating model. The successful candidate will be a commercially astute finance leader who can challenge business performance, understand the economics of an asset-intensive industrial business, influence senior stakeholders, develop a high-performing team, and translate strategic priorities into measurable financial outcomes.

The role requires strong finance fundamentals together with sufficient systems and technical fluency to evaluate solutions, shape modernization efforts, and partner effectively across Finance, Operations, Sales, IT, Data & Analytics, and external providers. Why Messer? Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

Principal Responsibilities:

Leadership, Business Partnership & Change Lead, motivate, coach, and develop the U.S. FP&A team, establishing clear priorities, accountability, succession plans, and high standards for analytical quality and business partnership. Act as a senior finance partner to key commercial and operational executives, including Sales & Marketing and Operations leadership, and support the Executive Committee with decision-oriented analysis, constructive challenge, and clear recommendations.

Translate strategic priorities into financial actions and help sponsor growth, margin-improvement, productivity, and cost-saving initiatives required to deliver business-performance targets. Lead cross-functional finance initiatives from problem definition and business-case development through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization, using disciplined project-management practices to manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder alignment. Promote a culture of ownership, collaboration, simplification, continuous improvement, fact-based decision-making, and active talent development across the FP&A team and broader finance organization.

Performance Management, Reporting & Planning Be accountable for the accuracy and completeness of the U.S. month-end management view in close partnership with Accounting, ensuring timely and decision-useful reporting and confidence in the underlying data. Provide insightful analysis of financial and operational performance, interpret key KPIs, identify root causes, and clearly communicate drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to senior stakeholders.

Lead periodic forecasting, annual budgeting, and strategic planning; challenge business assumptions and outlooks; and strengthen driver-based planning, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and linkage between operational assumptions and financial outcomes. Develop forward-looking and exception-based analytics that improve the speed and quality of management decisions, while incorporating cash flow, working capital, and balance-sheet implications where relevant. Operational & Commercial Finance Lead analysis of revenue, gross margin, and operating performance, including price/volume/mix, pricing realization, customer and product mix, cost inflation and recovery, productivity, and other key commercial and operational drivers.

Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to understand plant and network performance, including production volumes, utilization, efficiency, energy and other major input costs, fixed-cost absorption, productivity, logistics costs, and operational variances. Understand and critically assess standard costing, cost-center structures, fixed and variable cost…