Bloom Energy

Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial Finance FP&A

Bloom Energy$121K — $174K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of finance experience, including roles in FP&A and commercial finance.
  • Strong financial modeling skills with experience in budget tracking and management reporting.
  • Proficiency in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and headcount planning.
  • Ability to assess and analyze commercial performance metrics like pipeline, bookings, and ROI.
  • Experienced with BI tools like SAP, Oracle, Power BI, and Tableau.
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for commercial functions.
  • Partner with leaders on headcount and workforce-related expense tracking.
  • Analyze non-headcount investments including marketing and sales commissions.
  • Build financial models to assess budget scenarios and investment tradeoffs.
  • Prepare management reports highlighting budget performance and opportunities.
  • Enhance pipeline metrics reporting in collaboration with Marketing and Sales Operations.
  • Support analysis of bookings and backlog, incorporating trend analysis.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with employer contribution.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match.
  • Generous Mental Health Support services.
  • Legal services and virtual Physical Therapy access.
  • Fertility & Family Forming benefits.
Full Job Description
Senior Financial Analyst to join our team in one of today's most exciting technologies. This role will report to our Director of Finance and based in San Jose, CA. This is a fully on-site, in office role 5 days a week.

Role Summary

Bloom Energy is seeking a high-performing Senior Financial Analyst to join the Commercial Finance team. This role will support budget management, forecasting, reporting, and business partnership for Sales, Services, and Marketing, with responsibility for both headcount and non-headcount investments. The analyst will partner closely with functional leaders to manage spend, evaluate investment tradeoffs, and provide clear financial insights that help the business allocate resources effectively.

The role will also own and improve reporting across key commercial performance metrics, including pipeline, marketing ROI, bookings, and backlog. Success in this position requires strong FP&A discipline, analytical curiosity, attention to detail, and the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations for senior business partners.

Location

This role is based in San Jose, CA, and Bloom has a 5-day in-office culture. Some travel may be required.

Responsibilities
  • Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for Sales, Services, and Marketing, including annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, monthly outlooks, and variance analysis.
  • Partner with business leaders to manage headcount plans, hiring assumptions, open requisitions, and workforce-related expense trends.
  • Track and analyze non-headcount investments, including marketing programs, sales commissions, consultants and contractors, travel and entertainment, and technology/tools spend.
  • Build and maintain financial models to evaluate budget scenarios, investment tradeoffs, resource allocation, and functional performance.
  • Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting for budget performance, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
  • Develop and improve pipeline metric reporting, partnering with Marketing and Sales Operations to ensure data consistency, visibility, and actionable insights.
  • Analyze marketing ROI by connecting program spend to pipeline generation, conversion, bookings contribution, and other relevant performance indicators.
  • Support bookings and backlog reporting, including trend analysis, bridge explanations, and insights into commercial execution and future revenue visibility.
  • Partner with the Controller's organization on close, accruals, commission accounting inputs, and reconciliations to ensure financial data integrity.
  • Identify and drive process improvements to standardize, simplify, and automate budget tracking, reporting, and business review materials.
  • Develop AI-enabled workflows, tools, and scalable solutions to simplify manual processes, improve reporting efficiency, and enhance decision support across Finance.
  • Support special projects, business cases, and ad-hoc analyses as needed.


Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 3 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, marketing finance, corporate finance, investment banking, or equity research.
  • Strong financial modeling skills, with experience building forecasts, scenario analyses, budget trackers, and management reporting packages.
  • Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount planning, and operating expense management.
  • Ability to analyze sales, marketing, or commercial performance metrics such as pipeline, bookings, backlog, commissions, conversion, or ROI.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using enterprise systems and BI tools such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Hyperion, Power BI, QuickSight, Tableau, Salesforce, or similar platforms.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results and business drivers to cross-functional leaders.
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting Sales, Services, Marketing, Commercial Operations, or Go-to-Market finance.
  • Familiarity with sales pipeline, bookings, backlog, sales commissions, marketing program ROI, or customer lifecycle economics.
  • Experience in energy, power generation, capital equipment, electric vehicles, semiconductors, or another capital-intensive hardware business.
  • Experience at a public company.
  • MBA, CPA, CFA, or CMA (or in progress).


At Bloom Energy, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees includes competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a large employer contribution, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, generous Mental Health Support services, Legal services, virtual Physical Therapy access, and Fertility & Family Forming benefits.

Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

FULL TIME ROLE ONLY: The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.

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Salary Ranges:
$121,400.00 - $174,600.00

About Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is a provider of solid oxide fuel cell technology. The company's fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion, producing less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional power generation methods. Bloom Energy's fuel cells are used in a variety of applications, including data centers, hospitals, and manufacturing facilities. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Learn more about Bloom Energy
Size
1,719 employees
Market Cap
$3.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$157.5 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+36.1%
Revenue
$794.2 million
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