Director of Strategic Finance & Transformation

Hanwha Energy USA, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is part of the Hanwha Group—a FORTUNE Global 300 company and one of South Korea’s most respected business enterprises. With over a decade of experience delivering high-quality, utility-scale energy projects across North America, Hanwha Energy USA has evolved into a comprehensive energy solutions provider. Our portfolio spans utility-scale renewables, natural gas generation, retail electricity, and strategic partnerships that power America’s growing data center industry. We integrate advanced technologies, proven processes, and strong partnerships to deliver reliable, customized solutions across the entire energy value chain.

About the role

Backed by the financial strength and global energy leadership of Hanwha Group, Hanwha Energy USA Holdings (HEUH) is expanding its business portfolio across the United States. This role supports rapid growth by advancing capital management standards. Reporting directly to the Chief Portfolio Officer (CPO), the Director of Strategic Finance & Transformation will optimize limited capital across four business subsidiaries and new ventures. The position focuses on establishing objective investment metrics, enforcing financial discipline, and driving process innovation to automate the investment lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Establish and refine a robust capital allocation framework for the expanding U.S. portfolio, defining strict financial criteria to balance stable, de-risked assets against higher-risk development projects.
• Review annual and long-term business plans of subsidiaries to ensure alignment with corporate capital allocation strategy, proactively adjusting capital deployment for projects that do not meet established criteria.
• Serve as the business lead for automating the capital allocation lifecycle, designing financial logic and business requirements for investment review, phase-gate approvals, and post-investment tracking, and partnering with IT to execute system development.
• Define metrics and frameworks to monitor capital efficiency, sunken costs, and realized IRRs against initial financial models, guiding IT/Data teams to build real-time executive dashboards for data-driven insights.
• Institutionalize a strict Phase-Gate system to filter out unviable projects early, enforcing objective "kill" decisions based on data and digitizing approval stages to minimize manual or emotional bias.
• Bridge the gap between corporate strategic directions and local operational teams, enforcing corporate capital standards and championing standardized workflows to overcome resistance from manual, exception-based reporting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, PE/IB, or Corporate Strategy within a holding company or global energy firm.
• Deep understanding of the U.S. power market, renewable energy (Solar, BESS), hybrid generation, and PPA structures.
• Advanced financial modeling skills (P-IRR, E-IRR) across the project lifecycle, with exceptional ability to structure complex financial data into logical investment criteria and strategic narratives.
• Proven track record of identifying process inefficiencies and partnering with IT, Data, or external vendors to translate financial business requirements into automated systems (e.g., ERP, BI tools, or custom dashboards).
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with a proven ability to enforce rigorous financial discipline and lead change management across diverse subsidiaries.

Pay

$210,000 - $250,000 salary