Finance Manager

Global Edge Group; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Edge Group seeks an experienced Finance Manager to lead financial oversight for large, long-duration industrial projects. This role partners with senior leaders, drives forecasting, budgeting, and profitability analysis, and mentors a small team to improve financial performance across project execution, supply chain, and staffing decisions.

The position emphasizes hands-on analysis, collaboration with operations, and clear communication of financial insights to guide strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline preferred.
• Proven experience in finance leadership, FP&A, project finance, or financial business partnering.
• Experience supporting large, complex, long-duration projects.
• Strong understanding of project profitability, margin management, forecasting, budgeting, revenue recognition, cash flow, and cost management.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing a team.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex financial information into clear business recommendations.
• Willingness to work onsite in Roanoke, VA and relocate if required.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted financial partner to business-unit and senior leadership.
• Oversee the financial performance of large, long-term industrial and engineering projects from award through completion.
• Analyze project profitability, margins, revenue timing, costs, risks, billing, and cash flow.
• Partner with Project Managers and operational teams to identify financial risks and performance issues early.
• Lead monthly forecasting, annual budgeting, and mid-range financial planning.
• Translate the commercial pipeline into projected revenue, profitability, timing, and resource requirements.
• Develop financial models, KPI dashboards, business analysis, and executive reporting.
• Provide financial insight into project delays, supply-chain impacts, staffing requirements, and changing business conditions.
• Partner with Commercial and Sales leadership on pipeline management, bid risk, contract economics, and revenue timing.
• Support workforce planning and evaluate the financial impact of business growth and resource requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 3–4 employees.
• Establish priorities, assign work, monitor performance, and ensure high-quality team output.
• Identify process improvements and strengthen financial controls, reporting, and productivity.
• Collaborate closely with Project Management, Engineering, Commercial, HR, and Corporate Finance.
• Present financial performance, forecasts, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Skills

Financial leadership

FP&A

Project finance

Financial modeling

Excel advanced

ERP systems

Enterprise planning

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/Economics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP financial systems

Enterprise planning/forecasting platforms

Job description

Global Edge is an international staffing firm connecting projects worldwide with the industry’s most talented project professionals. We work with high level technical and commercial personnel across multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure, Automotive and Motorsports, IT, Marine, Mining, and more. With offices strategically located worldwide, Global Edge is known for the highest level of delivery for our clients and contractors.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join a growing industrial and engineering organization in a highly visible leadership position.

This role goes beyond traditional accounting and FP&A. You will serve as a key financial business partner to business-unit leadership, providing insight and guidance across project profitability, forecasting, financial planning, workforce planning, operational performance, and strategic decision-making.

The successful candidate will have experience working within a project-driven environment, with a strong understanding of how project execution, contract milestones, supply-chain activity, staffing, and commercial decisions impact revenue, margins, cash flow, and overall business performance.

This is also a hands-on people leadership position, managing a small team while remaining actively involved in complex financial analysis and business decisions.

Work Arrangement

Onsite

Relocation

Relocation candidates will be considered

• Act as a trusted financial partner to business-unit and senior leadership.
• Oversee the financial performance of large, long-term industrial and engineering projects from award through completion.
• Analyze project profitability, margins, revenue timing, costs, risks, billing, and cash flow.
• Partner with Project Managers and operational teams to identify financial risks and performance issues early.
• Lead monthly forecasting, annual budgeting, and mid-range financial planning.
• Translate the commercial pipeline into projected revenue, profitability, timing, and resource requirements.
• Develop financial models, KPI dashboards, business analysis, and executive reporting.
• Provide financial insight into project delays, supply-chain impacts, staffing requirements, and changing business conditions.
• Partner with Commercial and Sales leadership on pipeline management, bid risk, contract economics, and revenue timing.
• Support workforce planning and evaluate the financial impact of business growth and resource requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 3–4 employees.
• Establish priorities, assign work, monitor performance, and ensure high-quality team output.
• Identify process improvements and strengthen financial controls, reporting, and productivity.
• Collaborate closely with Project Management, Engineering, Commercial, HR, and Corporate Finance.
• Present financial performance, forecasts, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications (Education, Experience, & Skills)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline preferred.
• Proven experience in finance leadership, FP&A, project finance, or financial business partnering.
• Experience supporting large, complex, long-duration projects.
• Background in one or more of the following environments preferred: EPC / Engineering, Industrial automation or systems integration, Industrial manufacturing, Power or energy, Infrastructure, Capital equipment, Engineering services, Project-based construction
• Strong understanding of project profitability, margin management, forecasting, budgeting, revenue recognition, cash flow, and cost management.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing a team.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, PivotTables, and financial analysis.
• Experience with ERP financial systems and enterprise planning/forecasting platforms.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively with executives, commercial leaders, Project Managers, engineers, and corporate functions.
• Ability to translate complex financial information into clear business recommendations.
• Comfortable working in an environment with changing project schedules, competing priorities, and complex business challenges.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how operational decisions affect financial performance.
• Willingness to work onsite in Roanoke, Virginia and relocate if required.

Global Edge Group LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Global Edge Group, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.