Job Summary

This role is a senior leadership position within Messer Americas Finance, combining core FP&A leadership and business partnering with responsibility for strengthening the commercial and operational finance capabilities that support decision-making. The Senior Manager, FP&A will lead planning, performance management, reporting, and decision support for the U.S. business while helping build a more scalable, automated, and data-driven finance operating model.

The successful candidate will be a commercially astute finance leader who can challenge business performance, understand the economics of an asset-intensive industrial business, influence senior stakeholders, develop a high-performing team, and translate strategic priorities into measurable financial outcomes. The role requires strong finance fundamentals together with sufficient systems and technical fluency to evaluate solutions, shape modernization efforts, and partner effectively across Finance, Operations, Sales, IT, Data & Analytics, and external providers.

Why Messer?

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on. The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role. Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care. Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

Principal Responsibilities

• Leadership, Business Partnership & Change: Lead, motivate, coach, and develop the U.S. FP&A team, establishing clear priorities, accountability, succession plans, and high standards for analytical quality and business partnership.
• Performance Management, Reporting & Planning: Be accountable for the accuracy and completeness of the U.S. month-end management view in close partnership with Accounting, ensuring timely and decision-useful reporting and confidence in the underlying data.
• Operational & Commercial Finance: Lead analysis of revenue, gross margin, and operating performance, including price/volume/mix, pricing realization, customer and product mix, cost inflation and recovery, productivity, and other key commercial and operational drivers.
• Strategic & Decision Support: Evaluate capital-intensive opportunities and major business decisions, including returns, risks, sensitivities, value-creation potential, and post-investment performance where appropriate.
• Finance Transformation, Systems & Analytics: Own and continuously improve key FP&A processes end-to-end across people, process, data, and technology, simplifying, standardizing, documenting, and automating workflows while maintaining appropriate controls and clear service expectations.

Required Skills

• Strong accounting and operational-finance foundation with the ability to connect accounting treatment, standard costing, cost behavior, absorption and allocations, transaction flows, management reporting, and business economics.
• Advanced financial modeling, analytical, and numerical-reasoning skills, including experience with revenue and margin bridges, operational variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, performance management, and decision support in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated process-improvement, finance-transformation, and project-leadership experience, including requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, prioritization, testing, implementation, change management, and sustained benefits realization.
• Strong SAP finance and systems knowledge, together with a high level of data and technical literacy across databases, data flows, reporting architectures, automation concepts, and solution design.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence financial and non-financial stakeholders at all levels, constructively challenge the status quo, lead change, and develop a high-performing team.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in industrial gases, chemicals, energy, process manufacturing, or another asset-intensive industrial environment, with familiarity with complex manufacturing, supply-chain, and distribution economics.
• Experience participating in SAP modernization, S/4HANA transformation, finance-system implementation, or significant process redesign.
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI or Tableau, Workday Adaptive Planning, Databricks, or comparable planning, data, and analytics platforms.
• Hands-on experience with analytical, data, or automation tools such as SQL, Power Query, Python, Power Automate, or similar technologies.
• Practical experience applying AI or advanced automation to finance processes, analytics, or productivity.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including substantial FP&A, business-partnering, people-management, and senior-stakeholder experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, CMA, ACA, CIMA, or comparable finance/accounting qualification.

The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $180,000. Messer provides medical, dental, vision, short term disability, life insurance and paid time off as well as other voluntary benefits, such as, long term disability in accordance with the terms and conditions of these Plans. Employees are eligible to enroll in Messer’s 401(k) Plan. Employees may be eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program.

About Messer

Messer’s safety culture, commitment to providing dependable supply and innovative gas technology solutions help customers unlock opportunities to be safer, more sustainable, more productive and more efficient, so their business thrives. We nurture lasting, meaningful relationships with customers, our communities, and with one another. We offer comprehensive benefits and appreciable pay, with steady schedules and opportunities for ongoing training and career progression. We prioritize and invest in our people at every level of our organization – the dedication, knowledge, customer focus and entrepreneurial spirit of our employees is what make Messer refreshingly different.

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