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 drivetrains for professional applications that is used in construction equipment, agricultural machinery, material handling equipment, stationary equipment, commercial vehicles, rail vehicles and other applications.

Job Summary

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.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Individual contributor

Travel Requirements

• Anticipate domestic and international travel up to 50%

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 operational performance.
• Build replicable execution plans for developed financial initiatives that can be utilized across acquisition businesses.
• Assess the financial health and maturity of newly acquired businesses and establish prioritized post-merger integration and value creation plans to address reporting, controls, cash management, working capital, and financial visibility.
• Develop scalable financial standards, processes, reporting packages, and KPI definitions that can be deployed across current and future acquisitions while accounting for individual business needs.
• Drive improvements in cash conversion, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, billing discipline, collections, and working capital across acquisition business.
• Establish clear profitability reporting by customer, location, service line, product, or other relevant dimensions to identify margin leakage and improvement opportunities. 
• Partner with Strategy and Transformation, and operating leadership to identify and execute value-creation initiatives that improve revenue, margin, EBITDA, cash flow, and return on invested capital.
• Define financial integration roadmaps that distinguish what should be standardized immediately from what should transition over time as acquired businesses integrate into DEUTZ processes, systems, and governance. 
• Identify gaps in financial and operational data, establish interim solutions where necessary, and partner with Finance, IT, and business leadership to build sustainable reporting architecture.
• Proactively identify financial risks, performance gaps, and emerging trends and bring forward recommended actions to leadership rather than simply reporting results.
• Help develop and continuously improve a repeatable financial integration playbook for future Americas Service Acquisitions.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 5-8 years of progressive experience in corporate finance, accounting, strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, investment banking, transaction services, audit, etc.
• Strong command of both finance and accounting fundamentals.
• Experience improving or implementing financial systems and processes (ERP, planning/reporting tools) in a growing or changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in entrepreneurial or decentralized environments where financial processes, systems, and controls, and data may not yet be standardized or fully developed.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/processes under tight concurrent deadlines. 
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis into clear recommendations for operational and executive audiences.

Preferred Requirements

• CPA, CFA, or MBA preferred.
• Experience in industrials, manufacturing, equipment, aftermarket/service, or a multi-entity/acquisitive environment.
• Familiarity with operating across business units or a matrixed, international organization.
• Demonstrated experience with financial modeling, forecasting, and performance analysis; M&A or integration exposure is a strong plus

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 15 pounds.
• Ability to travel when required.

EEO Statement 
DEUTZ is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the bases of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. Applicants will be considered regardless of their race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, DEUTZ also has a strong corporate commitment to inclusion.