Finance Analyst Lead

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal.

Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

At Oshkosh, you'll be part of a purpose-driven organization that builds products and solutions that make a positive difference in communities around the world. As a Lead Finance Analyst, you'll provide financial leadership and process ownership for key accounting and business processes supporting Pierce Manufacturing. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll own a portfolio initially including warranty, Digital Technology finance partnership, backlog actual reporting, and lease accounting, while leading and developing one Finance Analyst.

You'll be accountable for the team's overall results and determine how work is prioritized and allocated based on business needs, complexity, capability, and available capacity. You'll partner across Finance and the business to ensure accurate financial reporting, effective forecasting, strong internal controls, and continuous improvement. This role is ideal for a finance professional who enjoys combining hands-on financial work, business partnership, process improvement, and people leadership.

• Own and execute the team's portfolio of accounting, financial analysis, reporting, forecasting support, reconciliations, journal entries, and internal-control responsibilities.
• Lead and develop one Finance Analyst, establishing priorities, allocating work, providing coaching and review, and building effective cross-training and backup coverage.
• Lead warranty finance and accounting, including reserve analysis, journal entries, reconciliations, reporting, controls, and business partnership.
• Serve as the primary Finance partner for Digital Technology, supporting actual results, forecast and budget assumptions, spending analysis, accruals, journal entries, intercompany activity, and allocations.
• Own backlog actual reporting and process integrity, including data maintenance, reconciliations, reporting, and controls, while partnering with FP&A on forecasting and forward-looking analysis.
• Own assigned lease accounting and financial processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, reporting, administration, and controls.
• Partner across Finance and the business to ensure financial results and business drivers are appropriately understood and reflected in reporting and forecasts.
• Maintain and enhance internal controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and support internal and external audit requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement using CIMS tools to simplify, standardize, automate, document, and strengthen assigned processes; assume ownership of additional accounting and business processes as organizational needs evolve.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• Six (6) or more years of relevant experience in accounting, finance, or treasury.
• Ability to travel 10%.

• Progressive accounting, financial analysis, FP&A, or related Finance experience appropriate for a Lead-level role.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements,…