Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States
Finance Director
Finance Director plays a key role in driving enterprise financial planning, capital investment oversight, and performance analysis across the organization. This role partners closely with business leaders and senior leadership to support financial planning, capital allocation decisions, and operational performance management. The Director leads financial modeling, capital project oversight, and forecasting activities while delivering actionable insights that support strategic and financial objectives.
You will serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable strategies that drive efficiency, accountability, and growth.
This role requires close collaboration with technical teams, the PMO, and corporate support functions to streamline reporting, manage cost allocations, and support change management initiatives. You’ll lead efforts to refine and enhance processes, ensure data integrity, and maintain a single source of financial truth.
This is a high-visibility role ideal for a forward-thinking finance leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about making a measurable impact on business performance.
Responsibilities:
·Establish consistent frameworks for evaluating capital investments and tracking project financial performance. Implement and maintain a standardized capital approval process aligned with the annual budgeting cycle.
·Manage financial oversight for corporate capital construction projects, including financial modeling, tracking, and reporting.
·Build and maintain financial models that evaluate project ROI, capital efficiency, and operational performance.
·Support capital expenditure (CapEx) planning by business unit, ensuring alignment with company priorities and budget constraints.
·Monitor project progress against approved budgets and timelines and report on risks, variances, and EAC.
·Provide data-driven insights on forecasts, budgets, variance analysis to senior leaders to help guide strategic financial decisions, optimize resource management and expense controls.
·Prepare and present monthly financial dashboards to communicate budget deviation, insights, providing visibility to stakeholders.
·Translate financial insights into clear recommendations for business leaders and executives.
·Develop and maintain cash vs. cost modeling for capital projects, identifying and explaining timing differences between expenses and cash payments.
·Partner cross-functionally with accounting, operations, project management, and corporate leaders to ensure alignment between financial planning and operational execution.
·Lead the development of best practices, processes, and analytical capabilities across the organization.
·Mentor and guide junior finance team members where applicable.
·Oversee current financial processes while identifying opportunities for internal control improvements and process efficiencies. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and transparency in all finance operations.
·Lead ad-hoc projects
Key Qualifications and Skills:
• Minimum 16 year’s experience functioning in an FP&A or relevant finance position
• Undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting
• Identify and report inconsistencies across business units while establishing standards for budgeting, performance metrics, and reporting processes.
• Ensure alignment of financial strategies and initiatives with overall corporate and business strategies.
• C-level, Capital Portfolio Management experience a plus
• Lead financial analysis efforts to support pricing scenarios and the development of innovative business models.
• Ability to synthesize complex financial narratives for senior management.
• Analyze business opportunities and risks, providing strategic recommendations and alternative solutions to senior management.
• Serve as a key advisor in shaping data-driven financial decisions that enhance organizational performance and profitability.
Job details
Salary Range 12: $168,316 - $252,475
Salary Range 13$196,537 - $294,806
* We typically place offers in the lower to middle portion of the range to maintain internal equity and allow room for growth. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual’s qualifications experience. This range is specific to Washington State.
Benefits:
TerraPower Career and Benefits information: https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/
TerraPower is a leading nuclear innovation company that strives to improve the world through nuclear energy and science. TerraPower’s innovators create technologies to provide safe, affordable and abundant carbon-free energy. They devise ways to use heat and electricity to drive economic growth while decarbonizing industry. And they develop processes to extract radioisotopes for medical use in lifesaving cancer treatments.
We’re proud of our culture of mission-driven innovation. Our employees develop clean, safe energy to address climate change and global poverty, and drive medical advances for human health applications. We attract exceptional people and encourage them to confront big challenges with bold creativity. We drive hard for progress while keeping our values at the forefront.
TerraPower was founded by Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries that decided the private sector needed to take action in developing advanced nuclear energy to meet growing electricity needs, mitigate climate change and lift billions out of poverty. Advanced reactors and other isotopic applications are now possible with technology and enhanced computing capabilities that were unimaginable a few decades ago. At TerraPower, we are innovating in nuclear to improve the lives of people everywhere and to build the clean energy of tomorrow – today.
TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.
