Job Description

This role is pivotal to providing timely, accurate, and easily accessible insights into Vernova Corporate financials that drive Functional and Finance leadership decision-making. As the Income Statement FP&A Leader, you will own the end-to-end consolidation, reporting, and analytics for Vernova Corporate's income statement while establishing and improving the standard operating mechanisms and tools that underpin our finance operations. You will lead process improvement and automation initiatives, collaborate across segments and corporate finance functions, and build a high-performing small team that delivers clarity and actionable insight from complex financial data.

We plan to fill this position in Hungary, Spain or Mexico but working from the US can also be discussed.

Essential Responsibilities:

Financial Consolidation, Reporting & Insights

• Own the overall consolidation, reporting, analytics, and insights for the Vernova Corporate income statement, ensuring financial visibility is timely, accurate, and actionable for leadership decision-making – including headcount and cost analytics

• Lead quarterly closes and planning sessions (forecasts, budget, strategic plan) for Vernova Corporate, delivering variance analysis and forward-looking insights that articulate outlook vs. plans

• Own annual reporting and forecasting process for costs allocated into the business segments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, as well as ensuring the accuracy of the recurring monthly allocation

• Serve as a go-to resource for resolving financial issues that span teams, applying judgment and analytical rigor to drive clarity and resolution

• Drive horizontal efficiencies across Corporate Ops. finance through standardization and continuous improvement

Operating Mechanisms & Process Excellence

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the standard operating mechanisms and tools for Corporate FP&A – ensuring rigor, consistency, and scalability
• Partner with the Vernova Corporate Finance leader to define and execute the FP&A operating model, including cadence, templates, and reporting standards
• Lead process improvement initiatives that reduce cycle times, eliminate manual work, and improve data quality and accessibility

Transformation & Modernization

• Champion AI and automation initiatives within Corporate FP&A, identifying high-impact use cases and driving implementation from concept through adoption
• Lead Corporate elements of the ledger-based reporting project and ensuing sub-projects, ensuring finance requirements are clearly defined and outcomes improve reporting accuracy and speed
• Stay current on emerging FP&A technologies and bring forward recommendations that position the team at the forefront of finance innovation

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Partnership

• Partner with the Total Company FP&A leader and segment FP&A teams to align on reporting standards, resolve cross-segment financial issues, and share best practices that elevate the broader finance organization
• Collaborate with other finance functions, including Controllership, Investor Relations, Tax, and Treasury, to address and resolve any cross-finance issues, improve processes, and ensure consistency and alignment
• Act as a connector across teams – proactively identifying opportunities to improve coordination, reduce duplication, and drive consistency Vernova Corporate finance practices

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a small, high-impact team (1 full-time direct report and 1 contractor), setting clear priorities, providing coaching, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Manage team capacity and prioritization across competing demands—balancing day-to-day deliverables with transformation initiatives

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree Finance, Accounting, or MBA required.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive finance experience, with depth in corporate FP&A, consolidation, or financial reporting. Demonstrated financial modeling skills and proficiency with planning/reporting tools (e.g., HFM/OneStream, SAP, Power BI, or similar).
• Proven ability to manage operating mechanisms and drive process improvement in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Experience leading or mentoring others, even in small-team settings.
• Strong executive communication skills, including ability to distill complex financial data into clear, concise narratives for senior leadership.

Desired Characteristics

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or MBA desired.
• Experience with finance transformation and familiarity with AI/automation applications in finance (e.g., intelligent forecasting, automated reconciliation, RPA).
• Energized by creating structure, improving processes, and solving problems.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

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