Senior Manager, Finance - Power

Axiom; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom, spinning off from Flex, is seeking a Senior Manager of FP&A in Austin to lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance across the Power Division. You will partner with Operations, Sales, Engineering, and Supply Chain to drive strategic initiatives and capital investment decisions.

You will evaluate pricing, customer profitability, and margin optimization while delivering executive-ready reports and insights to accelerate growth and margin expansion for a critical digital infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, or business finance experience.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, power, or technology businesses.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems expertise.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range planning processes.
• Develop revenue, gross margin, operating profit, and free cash flow forecasts.
• Drive monthly and quarterly performance reviews with business leaders.
• Ensure accurate forecasting of key operational and financial metrics.
• Serve as the primary finance partner to Power Division leadership.
• Support strategic initiatives including capacity investments, new customer programs, product launches, and M&A activities.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support commercial negotiations and investment decisions.
• Partner closely with Operations, Sales, Engineering, and Supply Chain organizations.
• Analyze business performance against plan, forecast, prior year, and strategic targets.
• Identify key drivers of revenue, profit, working capital, and cash flow.
• Develop executive-ready reporting packages and presentations.
• Monitor KPI performance and recommend corrective actions when required.
• Support long-range strategic planning and market growth initiatives.
• Evaluate capital investment opportunities and ROI.
• Conduct scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and what-if analyses.
• Assess pricing, customer profitability, and margin optimization opportunities.
• Drive initiatives to improve inventory turns, DSO, DPO, and cash conversion cycle.
• Partner with operations and supply chain teams to optimize working capital.
• Support customer funding arrangements and commercial structures that improve free cash flow.
• Lead and develop a team of finance professionals.
• Improve FP&A processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
• Promote financial discipline and data-driven decision making across the organization.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Executive communication

Manufacturing experience

Excel proficient

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

MBA (preferred)

CPA (preferred)

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. Flex intends to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment into a new, independent publicly traded company, Axiom, with the spin planned for Q1 2027. If the intended spin occurs, this role will support Axiom, a company focused on critical digital infrastructure and delivering end-to-end power and thermal management solutions for AI data centers and other mission-critical applications. The Senior Manager, FP&A is a key finance business partner to the Power Division leadership team and is responsible for driving financial planning, forecasting, performance management, strategic analysis, and decision support across the business. This role provides actionable insights to improve growth, profitability, working capital, and cash flow while supporting executive-level decision-making. The successful candidate will combine strong financial acumen, strategic thinking, and operational partnership to help accelerate the division's growth and margin expansion objectives.

What a typical day looks like

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range planning processes.
• Develop revenue, gross margin, operating profit, and free cash flow forecasts.
• Drive monthly and quarterly performance reviews with business leaders.
• Ensure accurate forecasting of key operational and financial metrics.

Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary finance partner to Power Division leadership.
• Support strategic initiatives including capacity investments, new customer programs, product launches, and M&A activities.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support commercial negotiations and investment decisions.
• Partner closely with Operations, Sales, Engineering, and Supply Chain organizations.

Performance Management

• Analyze business performance against plan, forecast, prior year, and strategic targets.
• Identify key drivers of revenue, profit, working capital, and cash flow.
• Develop executive-ready reporting packages and presentations.
• Monitor KPI performance and recommend corrective actions when required.

Strategic Finance & Analysis

• Support long-range strategic planning and market growth initiatives.
• Evaluate capital investment opportunities and ROI.
• Conduct scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and what-if analyses.
• Assess pricing, customer profitability, and margin optimization opportunities.

Working Capital & Cash Flow

• Drive initiatives to improve inventory turns, DSO, DPO, and cash conversion cycle.
• Partner with operations and supply chain teams to optimize working capital.
• Support customer funding arrangements and commercial structures that improve free cash flow.

Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of finance professionals.
• Improve FP&A processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
• Promote financial discipline and data-driven decision making across the organization.

What we're looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, or business finance experience.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, power, or technology businesses.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems expertise.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA and/or CPA.
• Experience in power infrastructure, data center power, embedded power, energy, or industrial markets.
• Experience supporting large-scale growth programs and capital investments.
• Experience working in global manufacturing environments.

Key Success Metrics

• Forecast accuracy
• Revenue and operating profit performance
• Free cash flow improvement
• Working capital reduction
• Strategic initiative execution
• Executive stakeholder satisfaction
• Team development and engagement

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