Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A

Newcleo • Colorado, NY

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

newcleo is an innovative nuclear technology company developing advanced modular reactors and nuclear fuel designed to deliver clean, safe and sustainable energy at competitive costs. newcleo's technology combines lead-cooled fast reactors with fuel manufactured from recycled nuclear materials, with the aim of providing abundant and reliable electricity and heat to industrial users while enabling the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle. newcleo brings together more than 900 highly skilled employees across Europe and the United States, spanning reactor and fuel design, engineering, and manufacturing. Through a vertically integrated supply chain and a growing network of strategic partnerships, newcleo is working to turn proven scientific and engineering solutions into deployable nuclear energy assets.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investor-facing finance, or related finance roles.
• Experience supporting public-company, pre-IPO, recent IPO, de-SPAC, or investor-grade finance environments preferred.
• Ability to translate complex operational and financial inputs into concise executive narratives and decision-ready analysis.
• Strong financial modelling, analytical, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with an enterprise performance management (EPM) platform such as Pigment, Anaplan, OneStream, or Adaptive Planning; hands-on involvement in an EPM implementation or deployment is required.
• Demonstrated ability to align and reconcile data across multiple business systems and ERPs to produce a consistent, auditable set of financial information.
• Track record of driving automation initiatives in data consolidation, forecasting, and reporting to reduce manual effort and improve cycle times.
• High attention to detail, strong judgment, and ability to operate under tight timelines and external scrutiny.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, or CFA preferred.
• Prior experience managing, mentoring, or developing analysts or a small team.
• Demonstrated executive- and Board-level communication skills, with the credibility to represent financial results and planning outputs directly to senior leadership and governance forums.

Responsibilities

• Support the CFO, VP FP&A, and Investor Relations with financial content for earnings materials, investor presentations, analyst discussions, and investor Q&A preparation.
• Ensure financial messaging is clear, fact-based, consistent with the forecast, and supported by appropriate analysis and reconciliation.
• Convert complex financial, operational, and project information into concise messaging suitable for executive and external audiences.
• Maintain strong alignment between internal forecasts, management reporting, Board materials, and investor-facing financial narratives.
• Own the preparation and delivery of Finance Board reporting packages, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency, and timely completion.
• Prepare consolidated financial performance updates, variance analysis, forecast updates, KPI reporting, cash outlook, and forward-looking financial summaries.
• Create a clear and consistent financial narrative for the CFO, executive team, Board, and relevant governance forums.
• Develop management reporting that supports executive decision-making, accountability, resource allocation, and performance management across the business.
• Coordinate inputs from FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Investor Relations, Strategic / Commercial Finance, and business leaders to ensure a single version of financial truth.
• Own the annual operating plan (AOP) processes end-to-end, including calendar design, templates, business unit submissions, and consolidation into a single enterprise plan.
• Own headcount, opex, and capital expenditure planning, partnering with functional and business unit leaders on cost center budgets, resource allocation, and capital allocation trade-offs.
• Lead scenario and sensitivity modeling to support strategic and operational decision-making (e.g., pricing, capacity, supply chain, and financing scenarios).
• Drive the monthly forecast-to-actual variance cadence in partnership with Accounting, translating flux analysis into actionable insight for business leaders.
• Serve as the finance business lead for the implementation, and ongoing administration of the company’s enterprise performance management (EPM) planning platform, including driver-based model design, data integration with ERP/GL and HR systems, user training, and governance of assumptions and access.
• Define and deliver a post-implementation automation roadmap that reduces manual, spreadsheet-based effort across planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Partner directly with Accounting/Controller, Treasury, and embedded business-partner finance teams to align close, cash, and forecast processes into a single version of financial truth.
• Support Audit Committee reporting and related governance materials, and provide FP&A support for M&A diligence, integration modeling, and other strategic finance initiatives as needed.
• Apply advanced financial modeling, SQL/data querying, and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to build self-serve reporting, and evaluate AI/automation applications to improve forecasting speed and accuracy.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• 401(k) plan with 4% company match
• Generous paid time off, starting at 20 days per year and increasing to 25 days after 3 years of service
• A mission-driven environment focused on delivering scalable, low-carbon energy solutions to meet growing global energy demand.
• A collaborative and international culture that values technical excellence, transparency, innovation, and cross-functional teamwork.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior