Finance Manager/ Business Partner

Job Description

We are seeking a Finance Manager/ Business Partner – Commercial & Engineering to serve as the primary financial advisor to our Commercial, Product Management, and Engineering organizations within a fast-growing, private equity-backed manufacturing company. This is a highly visible role responsible for partnering with business leaders to drive profitable growth, improve commercial performance, support product investment decisions, and develop scalable planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Commercial leadership to drive profitable growth.
• Lead Bookings and Revenue forecasting, including pipeline conversion, shipment timing, and revenue recognition.
• Improve forecast accuracy through close collaboration with Commercial leadership.
• Analyze customer profitability, pricing, product mix, and commercial performance.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards that improve visibility into commercial performance.
• Identify risks and opportunities and recommend actions to improve revenue and margin.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership on strategic investment decisions.
• Develop financial business cases supporting new product development, product enhancements, and engineering initiatives.
• Evaluate product portfolio performance and profitability.
• Support new product introductions (NPI) through financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Aid in prioritizing engineering investments based on strategic and financial return.
• Own budgeting and forecasting for Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Product Management.
• Present monthly financial results, key performance indicators, risks, and opportunities to executive leadership.
• Develop long-range financial models supporting strategic planning.
• Partner with leadership to improve decision-making through data-driven insights.
• Build scalable finance capabilities.
• Help establish a best-in-class Finance Business Partner organization.
• Drive continuous improvement across financial planning and commercial analytics.

Required Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of FP&A experience, including forecasting, budgeting and modeling.
• Advanced Excel.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, or Commercial leadership.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Experience within manufacturing, industrial, technology, or product-based companies.
• Experience supporting Product Management or Engineering organizations.
• Experience within a high-growth and/or private equity-backed company.
• Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, ERP, CRM, and planning systems experience.