About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

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Work Location/Schedule: Hybrid in office 3 days per week, commutable distance to one of our offices Arlington VA, Alpharetta, GA or Houston, TX. Relocations considered.

Region: This position will support business in LATAM

(There are multiple regional openings: Americas, Americas West, Americas East and Latin America/South America.)

Job Description

The Commercial Finance Manager CFM is responsible for all commercial aspects related to customer offers and contract negotiations at the sales phase. This includes, but is not limited to, driving the process for commercial issues to ensure compliance with company guidelines for contractual, accounting, legal and tax aspects of the offers and contracting phase. The CFM ensures compliance to applicable regulations (internal and external) during the bidding process and ensures a full and accurate presentation of the risk and financial profiles of each opportunity from the firm offer phase to the contracting phase. The CFM role is crucial and active during customer contract negotiations and ensures a proper balance of the risk/reward relationship for each opportunity. This role requires a commercial background with firm understanding of finance concepts, experience working with large turnkey projects in the Energy, Renewable Energy or Oil & Gas sectors.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Participates in contract negotiations, and drives negotiations related to commercial contractual terms ensuring adherence to company’s risk profiles.

Ensures customer’s commercial requirements and priorities are identified and provides an accurate assessment of the contractual/financial risks and opportunities.

Supports the Sales team in managing and optimizing targeted financial results with due professional care (e.g. project margin, cash flow, security and credit instruments, insurance, contractual risks, etc.).

Secures adequate and timely support from subject matter experts within the organization to properly develop the commercial aspects of offers during the bidding process.

Drives the review and evaluation of the customer’s contract conditions, ensures examination by Legal and secures proper approval levels within the organization including to the Executive Leadership Team, as necessary.

Signs off the project pricing calculations and documentation.

Conducts the project handover from sales to execution teams.