Senior Manager, Project Finance Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development and evaluation of capital investment business cases in partnership with manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain leaders.
• Build, validate, and challenge financial models including NPV, IRR, payback, and sensitivity analyses.
• Provide SAP-based financial governance for capital projects using WBS structures and Internal Orders.
• Ensure accurate project setup, tracking, approval compliance, and audit-ready documentation.
• Track capital budgets, actuals, commitments, and forecast-at-completion, driving variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure proper capitalization, cost allocation, and financial close-out of capital projects.
• Develop cash flow forecasts and align capital deployment with funding and working capital objectives.
• Monitor post-investment performance against business cases, including ROI, utilization, and cost improvement metrics.
• Partner cross-functionally with manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and FP&A as finance lead for capacity expansion initiatives.
• Deliver executive-level reporting, dashboards, insights, and recommendations on CapEx performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related discipline; MBA or CPA preferred.
• Eight to twelve (8–12+) years of experience in manufacturing finance, FP&A, or project finance.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP, including Project Systems (PS), WBS, and Internal Orders.
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities for capital investment evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead capital governance, cost control, and ROI tracking for large-scale projects.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills with ability to influence senior leadership.