Senior Manager, Supply Chain Finance

Bloom Energy•San Jose, CA

3d•$141,900 - $204,100•Onsite

About The Position

Bloom Energy is seeking a Senior Manager, Supply Chain Finance to provide financial leadership across supplier economics, material cost, inventory, working capital, and supply-chain decision support. The role partners with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Operations, and other cross-functional teams, independently leads complex analyses and workstreams, develops recommendations for leadership, and strengthens financial processes and decision-support capabilities. It is an individual-contributor role with broad business exposure and responsibility for influencing outcomes through financial insight and collaboration. The position reports to the Director of Supply Chain Finance and is based in San Jose, California. It is fully on-site in the office five days a week. The Senior Manager evaluates supplier investments and commercial proposals; leads material-cost and business-performance analysis; manages inventory forecasts and working-capital analysis; and serves as a finance partner to Supply Chain and Sourcing leaders. The role also develops scalable models, dashboards, controls, and review routines, presents insights to leadership, and provides informal coaching and technical guidance to colleagues. Bloom Energy offers eligible employees medical, dental, and vision plans with a large employer contribution, a 401(k) retirement plan with company match, mental health support, legal services, virtual physical therapy access, and fertility and family-forming benefits. The stated salary range is $141,900 to $204,100.

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 analysis to support funding and sourcing decisions.
Partner with Sourcing, Treasury, Accounting, and Legal to evaluate 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.
Lead financial analysis of 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 operational 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 clear 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 clear deliverables, decision points, ownership, and follow-through.
Develop scalable models, dashboards, controls, and review routines that 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.