General Fusion

Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

General Fusion$100K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; CPA designation required.
  • Minimum 5 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience in a public company.
  • Demonstrated experience owning financial models, forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting.
  • Strong financial modeling skills, including multi-year corporate models and long-range forecasting.
  • Experience improving processes and scaling an FP&A function in a growth-stage or evolving public company.
  • Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with ERP systems, BI tools, and financial data extraction.

Responsibilities

  • Own accurate and timely monthly reporting against budget for departments and key projects.
  • Deliver variance analysis and actionable financial insights to department leaders and senior leadership.
  • Support financial reporting for Board meetings, analyst calls, and significant projects.
  • Partner with Accounting to streamline month-end close and improve management reporting accuracy.
  • Maintain the three-year corporate model and ten-year forecast, providing insights on financial performance.
  • Lead annual budgeting and reforecasting, coordinating inputs across the organization.
  • Develop dashboards and self-service reporting using Power BI and Power Query.

Benefits

  • Collaborative finance team culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Opportunity to shape and scale FP&A processes in a newly public company.
  • Engagement with senior leadership and board of directors to influence financial strategy.
Full Job Description
Position Overview:

As a newly public company, General Fusion is seeking a strategic, hands-on Manager, FP&A to help strengthen and scale our financial planning, reporting, and analysis capabilities. Being newly public, we are looking for a candidate who knows what a high performing FP&A function looks like having worked in other public companies with well-established FP&A processes.

The Manager, FP&A will lead financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting across the organization, partnering with Commercial, Operations, department leaders, and Accounting to turn financial data into meaningful insights for management, the Board, and the investment community. This role will maintain the corporate forecast and cash runway, including the three-year corporate model and 10-year long-range forecast, while helping build a more robust and scalable FP&A function.

This role is well suited to someone who enjoys both the technical rigor of financial modeling and the process-building work of maturing a finance function, and who is comfortable partnering cross-functionally to gather input and align assumptions across the business.

The successful candidate will join a collaborative finance team that values accountability, continuous improvement, and impact.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting & Analysis
  • Own accurate and timely monthly reporting against budget across the company, departments, and key projects.
  • Deliver variance analysis and actionable financial insights to department leaders and the Senior Leadership Team.
  • Support financial reporting and materials for Board meetings, analyst calls, and key projects.
  • Partner with Accounting to ensure an efficient month-end close and accurate management reporting.


Financial Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting
  • Maintain the three-year corporate model and 10-year long-range forecast, providing a current view of financial performance and cash runway.
  • Lead the annual budgeting and ongoing reforecasting processes, coordinating inputs and assumptions across the organization.
  • Partner with business and project leaders to validate assumptions and reflect evolving business, project, and commercial plans.
  • Develop headcount and project-level resource forecasting in partnership with People & Culture.
  • Evolve financial planning and reporting to support a growing and increasingly diversified project portfolio.


FP&A Processes & Systems
  • Lead the evolution from Excel-based planning toward a scalable FP&A framework with standardized processes, reporting, and governance.
  • Strengthen data architecture, cost-code structures, and reporting tools to improve financial visibility and decision-making.
  • Develop dashboards and self-service reporting using tools such as Power BI and Power Query and champion FP&A best practices across the organization.


Relevant Skills and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; CPA designation required.
  • Minimum 5 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience, including experience within a public company environment.
  • Demonstrated experience owning financial models, forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting.
  • Strong financial modeling skills, including multi-year corporate models, long-range forecasting, and cash runway analysis.
  • Experience improving processes and helping mature or scale an FP&A function, ideally within a growth-stage or evolving public company.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems, BI tools, and financial data extraction.

About General Fusion

General Fusion is developing fusion energy technology to generate clean, safe, and abundant energy. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. General Fusion's technology uses a magnetized target fusion (MTF) approach, which involves creating a vortex of plasma and compressing it with a liquid metal. The resulting fusion reaction releases energy that can be harnessed to generate electricity. General Fusion has received funding from a variety of sources, including the Canadian government, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the venture capital firm Khosla Ventures.
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Size
200 employees
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Founded
2002

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