When you join Daimler, you become an agent of change within our global community of people working to create a cleaner, safer, and more efficient world for today and tomorrow.  Through innovation at all levels, our teams ensure our world-changing brands continue to increase the quality of life and the business success of our customers, their customers, and the world around them. The Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) brand portfolio is second to none, and includes Freightliner Trucks, Western Star Trucks, Detroit engines and components, Thomas Built Buses and Freightliner Custom Chassis.


We are the undisputed leader in the commercial vehicle market and the industry’s technology trendsetter.  Empowered by purpose, DTNA employees drive a Technology Revolution through innovative products and a customer-centric culture.  Our dedication to our customers and society does not end once our products hit the road.  That’s because we believe that business success and social responsibility go hand in hand. We immerse ourselves in our customer’s experience, and support the environmental responsibilities of our sites to ensure our products are the reliable, sustainable and the desired tools of the future.




Job Overview
The cbFC NAFTA Hub team in Portland is responsible for finance processes and methods in the NAFTA region. The team maintains and develops Daimler cbFC ('common basic Finance and Controlling') processes and methods based on SAP and acts as 2nd level support between key users on business side and the 3rd level support located in the headquarter in Germany. The goal is to deliver best-practice business processes to the cbFC user community. Besides regular support activities the team is running various project activities to make sure that business needs are met starting with process changes including functional system enhancements all the way to full-blown roll-out projects.

 

Responsibilities
- Manage cbFC support activities for Financial Accounting for cbFC NAFTA HUB entities.


- Work with the respective Finance & Accounting key users on process and system related issues as well as with Level 3 support on the resolution of incidents.


- Work on local changes requests and implement new system functionality provided by the cbFC Template.


- Facilitate communication and know how transfer to the key users of respective areas.


- Manage cbFC implementation projects and other business driven projects with cbFC and Accounting related expertise and knowledge considering efficient and effective processes and methods and strategic corporate goals.


- Drive continuous improvement and recommend process changes (local changes in process, local changes in upstream legacy systems, or changes in the cbFC Template) and work with local management to design go-forward processes.


- Provide strategic and operational direction by advising on the impact and effect of process and system changes, and develop recommendations to support successful implementation of business changes.


- Perform regression testing in area of responsibility to ensure system and process stability for NAFTA Locations.


- Close alignment of projects and other initiatives with the global support team in Stuttgart.