Sr. Director, FP&A & IR

About the Role:

The Sr. Director, FP&A & Investor Relations is a strategic financial leader responsible for guiding the company’s financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and strategic decision-making to drive growth, profitability, and company valuation. Activities include, but are not limited to, effective communication of the company’s quarterly earnings while also keeping investors focused on Wabash’s longer-term strategy.

Your Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development of robust financial models to support annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term business planning. Align financial strategies with organizational goals to drive sustainable growth.
• Deliver actionable insights by analyzing complex data, identifying trends, and presenting recommendations that guide executive decision-making.
• Design and implement streamlined processes for forecasting, reporting, and analytics to improve accuracy, timeliness, and scalability.
• Foster collaboration with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and key stakeholders to ensure alignment between financial goals and business objectives.
• Standardize and enhance reporting tools and dashboards to track business KPIs, measure success, and identify opportunities for operational improvements.
• Build, mentor, and empower a high-performing team through coaching, professional development, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Prepare quarterly earnings materials, including assisting senior leadership develop talking points, scripts and anticipate likely topics for analyst and investor questions
• Coordinate investor marketing activities, including conferences, non-deal roadshows, plant tours and other analyst and investor touchpoints
• Maintain close relationships with sell-side analysts covering WNC to ensure understanding of long-term strategy and providing transparency in to the company’s financial outlook to ensure consensus falls within a reasonable range
• Act as the main point of contact for institutional investors to reach out with questions and proactively engage with large shareholders to capture feedback and share with the internal team
• Maximize sell-side research coverage by developing relationships with non-covering sell-side analysts
• Ad Hoc Strategic Projects: Partner with leadership on special initiatives such as M&A activity, investment analysis, and strategic scenario modeling
  
  

Let’s Talk About Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required (Preferred Major: Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Accounting)
• Master’s degree Preferred (Preferred Major: Finance or related)
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in corporate finance-related role within a public company
• Previous experience in leading Investor Relations preferred
• Proficiency in understanding of financial markets
• Familiarity with machinery and/or transportation market segments
  
  

Leadership Attributes:

At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:

• Embrace Diversity and Inclusion – Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness
• Seek to Listen – Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions
• Always Learn – Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo
• Be Authentic – Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do
• Win Together – Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash
  
  

Join us in turning ideas into world-changing realities. Curate and build your high-impact professional career at Wabash!

Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:

Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for its associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied equally to similarly situated associates.