Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial Finance FP&A

Bloom Energy; San Jose (CA); Vor Ort; USD 121.000 - 175.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Bloom Energy is seeking a high-performing Senior Financial Analyst to join the Commercial Finance team in San Jose, CA. You will support budget management, forecasting, reporting, and business partnership for Sales, Services, and Marketing, with responsibility for headcount and non-headcount investments.

The role requires building financial models, analyzing pipeline, bookings, and ROI, and partnering with leaders to drive resource allocation and performance insights.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive finance experience.
• Strong financial modeling skills for forecasts, scenario analyses, budget trackers, and management reports.
• Experience budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount planning, and operating expense management.
• Ability to analyze sales, marketing, or commercial performance metrics such as pipeline, bookings, backlog, ROI.

Aufgaben

• Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for Sales, Services, and Marketing.
• Partner with leaders to manage headcount plans, hiring assumptions, and workforce-related expenses.
• Track and analyze non-headcount investments, including marketing programs, commissions, consultants, travel, and tools spend.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate budget scenarios and resource allocation.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly management reporting for budget performance and risks/opportunities.
• Develop pipeline metric reporting with Marketing and Sales Operations for data consistency.
• Analyze marketing ROI by linking program spend to pipeline and bookings.
• Support bookings and backlog reporting and future revenue visibility.
• Collaborate with Controller’s on close, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Identify and drive process improvements to automate budget tracking and reporting.
• Develop AI-enabled workflows for efficiency and decision support.
• Support special projects and ad-hoc analyses.

Kenntnisse

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Headcount planning

BI tools

Budgeting

Analytical skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in finance/business

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Anaplan

Hyperion

Power BI

Tableau

Salesforce

Jobbeschreibung

At Bloom Energy, our vision for a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy is more than just a dream—we’remaking it reality. For over two decades,we’vebeen at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxideelectrolyzer(SOEC) technologies are redefiningwhat’spossible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide, we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Ourcutting-edgesolutions enable unparalleled “time-to-power” capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customersremainahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm. At Bloom, we thrive on collaboration, bold thinking, and relentless innovation. We believe that, together, we can create a brighter, more sustainable future while tackling the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. We are looking for aSenior Financial Analystto join our team in one of today’s most exciting technologies.

This role will report to our Director of Finance and based in San Jose, CA.This is a fully on-site, in officerole5 days a week.

Role Summary

Bloom Energy is seeking a high-performing Senior Financial Analyst to join the Commercial Finance team. This role will support budget management, forecasting, reporting, and business partnership for Sales, Services, and Marketing, with responsibility for both headcount and non-headcount investments. The analyst will partner closely with functional leaders to manage spend, evaluate investment tradeoffs, and provide clear financial insights that help the business allocate resources effectively. The role will also own and improve reporting across key commercial performance metrics, including pipeline, marketing ROI, bookings, and backlog. Success in this position requires strong FP&A discipline, analytical curiosity, attention to detail, and the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations for senior business partners.

Location

This role is based in San Jose, CA, and Bloom has a 5-day in-office culture. Some travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for Sales, Services, and Marketing, including annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, monthly outlooks, and variance analysis.
• Partner with business leaders to manage headcount plans, hiring assumptions, open requisitions, and workforce-related expense trends.
• Track and analyze non-headcount investments, including marketing programs, sales commissions, consultants and contractors, travel and entertainment, and technology/tools spend.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate budget scenarios, investment tradeoffs, resource allocation, and functional performance.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting for budget performance, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Develop and improve pipeline metric reporting, partnering with Marketing and Sales Operations to ensure data consistency, visibility, and actionable insights.
• Analyze marketing ROI by connecting program spend to pipeline generation, conversion, bookings contribution, and other relevant performance indicators.
• Support bookings and backlog reporting, including trend analysis, bridge explanations, and insights into commercial execution and future revenue visibility.
• Partner with the Controller’s organization on close, accruals, commission accounting inputs, and reconciliations to ensure financial data integrity.
• Identify and drive process improvements to standardize, simplify, and automate budget tracking, reporting, and business review materials.
• Develop AI-enabled workflows, tools, and scalable solutions to simplify manual processes, improve reporting efficiency, and enhance decision support across Finance.
• Support special projects, business cases, and ad-hoc analyses as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, marketing finance, corporate finance, investment banking, or equity research.
• Strong financial modeling skills, with experience building forecasts, scenario analyses, budget trackers, and management reporting packages.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount planning, and operating expense management.
• Ability to analyze sales, marketing, or commercial performance metrics such as pipeline, bookings, backlog, commissions, conversion, or ROI.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using enterprise systems and BI tools such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Hyperion, Power BI, QuickSight, Tableau, Salesforce, or similar platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results and business drivers to cross-functional leaders.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Sales, Services, Marketing, Commercial Operations, or Go-to-Market finance.
• Familiarity with sales pipeline, bookings, backlog, sales commissions, marketing program ROI, or customer lifecycle economics.
• Experience in energy, power generation, capital equipment, electric vehicles, semiconductors, or another capital-intensive hardware business.
• Experience at a public company.
• MBA, CPA, CFA, or CMA (or in progress).

Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.

All qualified applicants, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless undue hardship would result.

We are committed to supporting the well-being of our employees and their families.

FULL TIME ROLE ONLY: The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.

Salary Ranges: $121,400.00 - $174,600.00

Bloom Energy's mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. With roots in NASA’s Mars Program, the company’s founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. K.R. Sridhar, developed an innovative fuel cell technology that is shifting the energy paradigm and redefining the electric power market.

The Bloom Energy Server is a distributed electric power solution built for the digital age and capable of delivering highly reliable, uninterrupted, 24x7 constant power that is also clean and sustainable.

Bloom’s unique on-site power generation systems are among the most efficient on the planet, providing significantly reduced operating costs and producing dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions.

By generating power where it is consumed, Bloom Energy offers increased electrical reliability and improved energy security, providing a clear path to energy independence.

Some of the largest companies in the world trust Bloom Energy to provide their businesses with clean, reliable and resilient energy.

Bloom’s customers include many Fortune 100 companies and leaders in manufacturing, data centers, healthcare, retail, higher education, utilities, and other industries.

The company, headquartered in San Jose, California, is growing quickly and looking to add to its dynamic team.

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