Manager, Supply Chain Finance

Bloom Energy•San Jose, CA

3d•$121,400 - $174,600•Onsite

About The Position

Bloom Energy is seeking a finance professional to partner with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Operations, and other cross-functional teams. The role supports financial planning and decision-making across supplier economics, material cost, inventory, working capital, and supply-chain performance. The Manager owns defined financial workstreams, develops analyses and recommendations, and works directly with business partners to improve financial outcomes and operating visibility. This is an individual-contributor role based in San Jose, California, reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Finance. It is fully onsite in the office five days per week. The position analyzes supplier prepayments, capacity arrangements, strategic deposits, and other nonstandard commercial proposals; develops business cases and scenario models; and tracks funding, repayments, exposure, and benefits. It also owns recurring material-cost, purchase-price-variance, sourcing-savings, and inventory analyses and forecasts. The role works with business partners to assess supplier and inventory decisions, identify working-capital opportunities and risks, and communicate financial implications and recommendations. The Manager serves as the primary finance partner for assigned Supply Chain or Sourcing workstreams, leads recurring reviews, and builds and maintains models, dashboards, and reporting processes. The role coordinates inputs across teams, resolves data issues, and supports practical process improvements. Success means delivering accurate, timely analysis and follow-through, providing actionable insights, connecting operational activity to financial outcomes, and identifying risks and opportunities early.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
Typically 6+ years of experience in supply-chain finance, operations finance, FP&A, inventory finance, working capital, strategic sourcing finance, or a related field.
Experience owning financial analyses or recurring business processes and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
Strong financial-modeling skills, including driver-based forecasting, business-case analysis, and scenario modeling.
Working knowledge of inventory, standard costing, PPV, supplier payments, and working-capital concepts.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP, planning, business-intelligence, or data-visualization tools.
Strong communication skills and the ability to translate analysis into concise business implications and recommendations.
High ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in manufacturing, energy, hardware, industrial technology, or another product-based environment.
Experience supporting global supply chains, strategic sourcing, inventory, or supplier-payment processes.
Experience with Oracle or another enterprise resource planning system.
Experience with dashboarding, automation, or data-visualization tools.
Knowledge of inventory accounting, standard costing, PPV, absorption, or working-capital drivers.

Responsibilities

Own financial analysis for supplier prepayments, capacity arrangements, strategic deposits, and other nonstandard commercial proposals.
Build business cases and scenario models covering cash flow, payback, economic benefit, repayment, and downside risk.
Partner with Sourcing, Treasury, Accounting, and Legal to analyze commercial terms and summarize material financial considerations.
Track supplier funding, repayments, outstanding exposure, and expected benefits against approved terms.
Support supplier financial-health reviews and identify emerging financial or concentration risks.
Own recurring analysis and forecasts for material cost, purchase price variance, and sourcing savings.
Develop cost-driver and total-cost analyses to support supplier negotiations, sourcing decisions, and cost-reduction initiatives.
Analyze performance drivers including volume, commodities, supplier mix, engineering changes, tariffs, and logistics costs.
Validate savings assumptions and track expected benefits through purchase activity and financial results.
Prepare performance summaries, issue analyses, and recommendations for business reviews.
Develop inventory forecasts using demand, receipts, production, shipments, lead times, and other operational drivers.
Partner with Planning and Operations to evaluate inventory targets, safety stock, build-ahead, and strategic-buy proposals.
Analyze inventory turns, DIO, aging, excess and obsolete exposure, reserve requirements, and disposition actions.
Identify working-capital opportunities and support cross-functional action plans.
Quantify the cash-flow, balance-sheet, and margin implications of inventory decisions.
Serve as the primary finance partner for assigned Supply Chain or Sourcing workstreams.
Lead recurring reviews and communicate key drivers, risks, opportunities, and required actions.
Build and maintain financial models, dashboards, and reporting processes that improve visibility and accountability.
Coordinate inputs across multiple teams, resolve data issues, and ensure analyses are complete and decision-ready.
Recommend practical process improvements and support implementation with business partners.