Commercial Finance Manager - Energy Storage - Americas

The Commercial Finance Manager at Fluence is responsible for all commercial and contract aspects related to customer offers in the sales phase. This includes driving the process for commercial issues to ensure compliance with company guidelines for contractual, accounting, legal, and tax aspects of the offers. The CFM team ensures compliance to applicable regulations (internal and external) during the bidding process and ensures a full and accurate presentation of the risk and financial profiles of each opportunity from the firm offer phase to the contracting phase. The CFM role is crucial and active during customer contract negotiations and ensures a proper balance of the risk/reward relationship for each opportunity. This role requires a background in finance, working with large turnkey projects in the Energy Sector. The Commercial Finance Manager will run monthly forecast processes for new orders, weekly reporting and analysis of sales proposals, and incorporate, introduce, and train newly developed commercial/financial tools and strategies. The CFM will coordinate with sub-regional CFM directors and CFMs for early involvement of key internal functions such as technical accounting, tax, treasury, insurance, and others as applicable. This role requires advanced knowledge of contract (EPCs/Services) requirements, advanced understanding of commercial contract terms and conditions, including light drafting with contracts, detail orientation, strong time management and project management skills, a good working knowledge of the Energy Storage Industry, demonstrated ability to interact with executive management, excellent negotiations skills, advanced understanding of Project Accounting Methods, advanced understanding of Project financial KPIs, advanced understanding of Project risk management requirements, strong background in using MS Office software: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and up to 25% travel as needed domestically and potentially globally.