Jobs at Woodward, Inc

Manages the preparation, review, and filing of SEC reports, including quarterly and annual filings. Oversees financial statement reporting, SEC and accounting compliance, MD&A development, stakeholder communications, and reporting process improvements. Collaborates with FP&A, Investor Relations, HR Total Rewards, finance teams, and the CFO. Analyzes financial data, supports share-based compensation accounting, manages projects, and presents reporting information to executives.

Supports SAP S/4HANA Source-to-Pay processes across sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, finance integration, testing, defect resolution, master data, cutover, and hypercare. Analyzes requirements, designs and configures solutions, coordinates testing, manages documentation, supports integrations and enhancements, trains stakeholders, and assists global implementation and change-management activities.

Develop and implement internal and external communications strategies for Woodward’s Industrial segment. Manage content across newsletters, intranet, websites, and email; build stakeholder relationships; advise teams on communication practices; and measure campaign effectiveness. The role supports change management, business initiatives, employee engagement, and brand alignment, while coordinating multiple projects and collaborating with communications, brand, and segment leadership teams.

Supports global SAP S/4HANA Record-to-Report finance processes, including requirements analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, defect resolution, documentation, training, and go-live hypercare. Partners with business and IT teams to implement standardized finance capabilities across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, controlling, treasury, and reporting. Leads small projects and workstreams, resolves complex system issues, supports change adoption, and mentors team members.

Supports SAP S/4HANA Order-to-Cash sales processes across global implementations and rollouts. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, solution design, SAP configuration, cross-module integration, functional and integration testing, defect resolution, master data readiness, training, cutover, hypercare, and user support. The role partners with business and IT stakeholders, leads small projects and workstreams, supports change management, and mentors team members while ensuring standardized, compliant, and scalable enterprise processes.

Leads compensation support for a business segment, advising business and HR leaders on base pay, incentive programs, salary structures, job architecture, and pay equity. Manages annual salary planning, bonus delivery, market benchmarking, audits, reporting, compliance, and continuous process improvement. Partners globally with HR, Finance, Legal, HR Technology, and business stakeholders to deliver competitive compensation solutions.

Develops and reviews government proposals, cost and pricing analyses, audit responses, and supporting financial data. Ensures compliance with FAR, DFARS, and Truthful Cost or Pricing Data requirements; collaborates with cross-functional teams and interfaces with DCAA and DCMA. Senior analysts lead proposal activities, mentor junior staff, and drive process improvements.

Leads strategic supply chain planning and daily operations, including procurement, inventory, logistics, demand forecasting, and distribution. Manages and develops supply chain teams, oversees supplier relationships and contracts, monitors performance metrics, manages budgets and risks, and drives process improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and meet service objectives.

Leads system safety engineering for safety-critical aerospace electronic systems across the product lifecycle. Performs FHA, PSSA, SSA, FTA, FMEA/FMECA, CCA, PRA, and ZSA; develops safety requirements, evaluates architectures, supports certification, maintains traceability and safety artifacts, advises stakeholders, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering, quality, program, customer, supplier, and certification teams to ensure compliance and robust product assurance.

Support end-to-end SAP finance (Record-to-Report) processes and a global S/4HANA rollout: elicit and document requirements, design/configure solutions, lead testing and cutover, resolve defects, support hypercare, enable standardized finance processes, train stakeholders, and mentor team members while coordinating integrations and adoption across regions.

Leads accounting activities and the Record-to-Report workstream for a global SAP S/4 implementation. Oversees costing, inventory controls, intercompany accounting, payroll and benefits, lease accounting, capital assets, reporting, taxes, compliance, GAAP, and SOX. Manages accounting staff, financial reporting, compliance, strategic planning, stakeholder relationships, system testing, training, hypercare, and deployment activities. Requires approximately 50% domestic and international travel, potentially more during site deployments.

Provides compensation consulting and analytical support to HR partners and business leaders. Conducts market pricing, job evaluations, workforce modeling, pay equity analysis, salary planning, incentive administration, and compensation surveys. Maintains job architecture and career frameworks, supports annual compensation cycles, ensures regulatory compliance, and improves compensation processes, reporting, and tools.

Deploys, manages, tunes, and governs enterprise firewalls while designing and maintaining VPN, SASE, and NAC solutions. Investigates security alerts, analyzes network traffic and logs, supports incident response, and recommends remediation. Partners with infrastructure, network, and security teams to improve controls, reduce risk, mature security programs, and document technical standards and procedures.

Administer SAP Basis and security across ECC and S/4HANA environments, including monitoring, transports, upgrades, patching, refreshes, performance tuning, role-based access, user provisioning, SoD remediation, and audit support. Support global implementations, testing, cutover, and hypercare. The role also manages NextLabs, automation, infrastructure changes, documentation, troubleshooting, compliance readiness, and small application projects while collaborating with infrastructure, application, QA, and security teams.

The Data Governance Lead will implement data governance policies, ensure data quality, promote stewardship practices, and manage data governance councils.

The Manager, IT Engineering drives the integration of digital technologies in engineering, ensuring operational efficiency and managing engineering-related IT systems.