Head of DTNA Corporate Planning & Reporting

Daimler Truck North America; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual variable pay bonus program

Company vehicle with insurance andFuel

Fuel card

401k company match up to 6%

Non-elective company contribution 3-7%

4 weeks vacation

13+ holidays per year

Paid parental leave

Employee assistance program

Comprehensive health care plans

Onsite fitness

Tuition assistance program

Volunteer paid time off

Short-term and long-term disability

Job summary

Daimler Truck North America seeks a senior Finance leader to drive DTNA's financial planning, performance steering, and executive reporting across the organization. You will connect financial insights to business drivers, manage forecasting and budgeting, and lead major finance transformations.

The role requires building a high-performing Finance organization, fostering trust, accountability, and ownership, while guiding strategic decisions with data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting.
• 10 years of directly related experience.
• At least 4 years of management experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead DTNA financial planning and financial performance steering, including long-range planning, annual business planning, forecasts, scenario analysis, and target-setting processes.
• Provide executive leadership with a forward-looking view of performance, translating developments into drivers, risks, and actions.
• Lead consolidation, analysis, and communication of DTNA financial performance and outlook for executive and board processes.
• Serve as strategic Finance partner, challenge assumptions, connect decisions to financial outcomes, co-own countermeasures.

Education

BS/BA in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting

10 years of directly related experience

4+ years of management experience

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Job description

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

• 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 accountability, and management action.
• Lead DTNA Finance digital transformation to simplify Finance work, improve insight and decision quality, and shift capacity from manual activities toward business partnership and value creation.
• Build a high-trust, high-alignment Finance partnership model across DTNA and central Daimler Truck Finance, establishing clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, standards, and communication while preserving DTNA's business proximity and local accountability.
• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing Finance organization, including organizational capability building, succession planning, coaching, performance management, talent development, psychological safety, and a culture of curiosity, business acumen, constructive challenge, strategic thinking, and ownership.

Knowledge You Should Bring

• BS/BA in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting
• 10 years of directly related experience
• At least 4 years of management experience
• Strong analytical and proble