FP&A Principal, CME

Itron, Inc. • Austin, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role serves as a key finance business partner to the Customer and Marketing Experience (CME) organization, supporting Itron’s global sales and corporate marketing teams within the Utilities & Energy sector. Reporting to the Senior Manager, CME Finance, this position has primary responsibility for financial partnership with North America Sales and Global Corporate Marketing. This is a high-visibility, high-impact opportunity to drive customer-centric, data-driven insights across bookings, revenue, backlog, and operating expenses (opex). The role plays a critical part in enabling authentic, accountable decision-making by sales and marketing leadership through in-depth technical analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous process improvement in a fast-paced, innovative technology environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Highly analytical and curious mindset, with the ability to challenge assumptions and improve processes in an authentic and constructive manner.
• Strong capability to analyze complex financial data and present clear, compelling narratives to diverse audiences, including senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across functions to achieve KPIs, key metrics, and shared business objectives.
• Proficiency in interrogating financial and operational systems, ideally including Salesforce, Oracle, cube-based reporting tools, and Microsoft Office (advanced Excel skills).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively while managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience partnering effectively across teams, balancing competing deadlines with accountability and agility.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting sales, marketing, or go-to-market organizations within a technology or SaaS environment.
• Familiarity with revenue recognition concepts, backlog management, and pipeline analytics.
• Exposure to the Utilities & Energy sector or complex, global B2B organizations.
• Demonstrated interest in process optimization and automation to improve scalability and reporting efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted, customer-centric finance business partner to CME North America Sales and Global Marketing leaders, delivering insights that inform bookings, revenue, pipeline, and opex decisions.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and close activities for sales and marketing, ensuring accountable and accurate reporting of revenue, backlog, and expense variances.
• Own quarterly bookings, backlog, and pipeline analysis, leveraging Salesforce and internal reporting tools to provide forward-looking, agile financial projections.
• Support sales operations and compensation processes, including quota setting, attainment calculations, audits, and executive-level reporting.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models and executive-ready analyses that translate data into clear narratives to support strategic decision-making.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing, Revenue, and Accounts Receivable, promoting data integrity, process alignment, and shared accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in financial processes, internal controls, and Salesforce/revenue reporting hygiene to support scalable growth in the Utilities & Energy market.

Benefits

• competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs
• paid vacation
• 401k matching
• employee stock purchase program
• hybrid work schedule
• annual bonus program
• Generous and flexible paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees