Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do You
Badger Meter is a leading global water technology company, with a mission to preserve and protect the world’s most precious resource. For more than 120 years, cities and businesses have utilized our innovative and trusted solutions to enhance operational efficiency and conserve water while making it more affordable, clean and resilient.
Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. We are committed to building a workplace where we shape a more sustainable future, celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation. Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!
What You Will Contribute
The Finance Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating and organizing finance and accounting, as well as cross‑company cost control and responsibility for improving efficiency, including the development of suitable systems.
This position is available either as a temporary employment role for 18 months or on a freelance/contract basis.
Job Duties
* Professional and disciplinary management of the accounting department
* Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements according to UGB and US‑GAAP
* Review of monthly and annual financial statements for subsidiaries and ensure compliance with local accounting standards as well as US GAAP
* Ensure proper financial communication with Badger Meter HQ and International departments
* Responsible for accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with Badger Meter requirements
* Develop and oversee budget planning process
* Carry out analysis and activities to increase efficiency of company's financial resources
* Monitoring of cash flow and preparation of cash flow forecast / planning
* Collaboration in projects with financial and tax law issues
* Prepare and coordinate tax returns in cooperation with external tax consultants
* Prepare and coordinate external financial audits, including recommendations and the conclusions of these audits
* Implement, improve and monitor company's internal control procedures
Education and Experience
* Bachelor’s Degree: business studies or a related field
* 5+ years relevant professional experience in accounting and/or controlling (e.g. finance department, auditing, tax consultancy, consulting) and Management experience desired
Competencies
* Execution: Ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities; measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics.
* Aligning Performance for Success: Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals, and then tracking results and evaluating performance effectiveness.
* Decision Making: Identify and understand problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choose the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating, and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; take action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
* Coaching: Engaging an individual in developing and committing to an action plan that targets specific behaviors, skills or knowledge needed to ensure performance improvement or prepare for success in new responsibilities.
* Delegation and Empowerment: Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision‑making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
Qualifications
* Good knowledge of US GAAP
* Experience in the creation and implementation of reports and key figures
* Experience in the areas of budget planning, cash flow and liquidity planning
* Business fluent in German and English
* Strong affinity for numbers
* Independent, forward‑looking and trend‑setting personality
* Dynamic and performance‑oriented hands‑on personality
* Strong computer skills (Excel, Powerpoint)
Additional Information
* We follow the Collective Agreement for the Metal Industry (valid from 1 Jan 2026). The minimum full‑time gross salary is €4888,37 with the possibility of additional overpayment based on experience and qualifications.
* Location: Badger Meter Austria GmbH | Haidingergasse 1 / 3.OG | 1030 Wien | Austria
At Badger Meter, we see diversity and inclusion in all its dimensions as a strength of our globally operating organisation. As an equal opportunity employer, we make our personnel decisions regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, age, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.
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