Senior Manager, Supply Chain Finance

Bloom Energy • San Jose, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Bloom Energy is seeking an experienced finance professional to partner with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Operations, and other cross-functional teams. The role provides financial leadership across supplier economics, material cost, inventory, working capital, and supply-chain decision support. Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Finance, the Senior Manager independently leads complex analyses and cross-functional workstreams, develops recommendations for leadership, and strengthens financial processes and decision-support capabilities. This is an individual-contributor role with broad business exposure and responsibility for influencing outcomes through financial insight and collaboration. The position is based in San Jose, California, and is fully on-site in the office five days a week.

The role evaluates supplier investments and commercial proposals, analyzes material costs and business performance, leads inventory and working-capital forecasting, and serves as a finance partner to Supply Chain and Sourcing leaders. It also develops scalable models, dashboards, controls, and review routines, and presents financial insights and recommendations to functional and finance leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
• Typically 9 or more years of progressive experience in supply-chain finance, operations finance, FP&A, inventory finance, working capital, strategic sourcing finance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex analyses and cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through recommendation and implementation.
• Advanced financial-modeling skills, including driver-based forecasting, investment analysis, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis.
• Strong understanding of inventory, standard costing, PPV, sourcing economics, supplier payments, and working-capital drivers.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP, planning, business-intelligence, or data-visualization tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex financial topics clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Sound business judgment, high ownership, and the ability to influence decisions without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree or relevant certification.
• 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

• Lead financial evaluation of supplier investments, prepayments, capacity arrangements, strategic deposits, and other nonstandard commercial proposals.
• Develop business cases using cash-flow, payback, return, sensitivity, and scenario analyses to support funding and sourcing decisions.
• Partner with Sourcing, Treasury, Accounting, and Legal to assess commercial terms, repayment protections, pricing benefits, performance milestones, and financial exposure.
• Monitor supplier financial health, outstanding funding exposure, repayments, and realized benefits against approved business cases.
• Provide financial input on supplier contracts, purchase commitments, capacity rights, termination provisions, and other material commercial terms.
• Analyze material cost, purchase price variance, and sourcing productivity, and explain key business drivers.
• Develop cost-driver, should-cost, and total-cost-of-ownership analyses to support sourcing strategies, negotiations, and supplier decisions.
• Partner with Sourcing and Engineering to validate cost-reduction opportunities and track realized savings through the P&L.
• Assess the financial impact of commodities, tariffs, logistics costs, supplier mix, engineering changes, and other operational factors.
• Prepare leadership-ready forecasts, performance bridges, risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
• Lead inventory forecasts and scenario analysis using drivers such as demand, receipts, production, shipments, lead times, and absorption.
• Partner with Operations and planning teams to evaluate inventory targets, safety stock, build-ahead, strategic buys, and long-lead material decisions.
• Analyze inventory turns, DIO, aging, excess and obsolete exposure, reserves, and disposition opportunities.
• Identify working-capital improvement opportunities and coordinate actions across Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Translate inventory decisions into cash-flow, balance-sheet, margin, and operational implications.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to Supply Chain and Sourcing leaders on complex operational and commercial decisions.
• Lead cross-functional finance workstreams and establish deliverables, decision points, ownership, and follow-through.
• Develop scalable models, dashboards, controls, and review routines to improve forecast accuracy and decision quality.
• Present financial insights and recommendations to functional and finance leadership.
• Provide informal coaching and technical guidance to other team members while remaining accountable for individual workstreams.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans with a large employer contribution.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Mental health support services.
• Legal services.
• Virtual physical therapy access.
• Fertility and family-forming benefits.

What This Job Offers

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