Senior Finance Leader, Portfolio Projects

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Portfolio Projects Finance Leader to lead finance support across multiple Electrical Power Transmission project portfolios in the NAM region. This role will serve as a key finance partner to business and operations leadership, driving portfolio profitability, cash flow generation, execution discipline, and financial visibility across a large and complex backlog.

The role requires a strong combination of financial expertise, operational partnership, and cross-functional leadership. The successful candidate will provide portfolio-level oversight of project financial performance, strengthen forecasting and governance processes, identify risks and opportunities early, and help drive actions that improve margin, cash conversion, and overall portfolio outcomes.

This role also provides functional leadership across project finance activities, ensuring consistency in financial reviews, forecasting rigor, performance management, and financial discipline across the portfolios.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the finance leader across multiple Electrical Power Transmission project portfolios in the NAM region

• Partner with project management, operations, commercial teams, factories, and customer-facing teams to drive strong execution and financial performance across the portfolio landscape

• Drive portfolio profitability, margin performance, cash generation, and working capital improvement

• Lead portfolio-level financial reviews, including forecasting, budgeting, risk and opportunity assessments, and action planning

• Consolidate, challenge, and improve project and portfolio forecasts to ensure accurate visibility to revenue, cost, margin, and cash outcomes

• Provide financial leadership and business insight to support operational decision-making, portfolio prioritization, and performance improvement

• Partner with factories and execution teams to improve cost control, schedule performance, and delivery execution

• Work with customer-facing teams to improve billing milestones, collections, claims management, and overall cash conversion

• Identify, assess, and escalation portfolio risks and opportunities, ensuring timely mitigation actions and strong follow-through

• Strengthen financial operating rigor, process compliance, governance, and standardization across the projects organization

• Provide functional leadership, guidance, and coaching to Projects Finance Leaders and project finance teams across assigned portfolios

• Drive continuous improvement in project financial reviews, reporting quality, forecasting accuracy, and portfolio performance management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a closely related field

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project finance, operations finance, or business finance leadership

• Strong understanding of project-based financial management, including profitability, revenue recognition, cost control, forecasting, cash flow, and working capital

• Demonstrated experience supporting large, complex project or portfolio environments

• Strong analytical, financial modeling, forecasting, and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to influence and partner across cross-functional teams in a matrixed operating environment

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with senior business, operations, and commercial stakeholders

• Experience in industrial, infrastructure, energy, or other project-based businesses preferred

Desired Attributes

• Strong finance leader with an operational mindset and a bias for action

• Effective business partner who can connect financial insights to execution and business outcomes

• Results-oriented, with a strong focus on profitability, cash generation, and performance improvement

• Comfortable operating across multiple portfolios and managing a high level of complexity

• Proactive, disciplined, and able to drive accountability across cross-functional teams

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence decisions and align stakeholders

• Able to balance strategic portfolio oversight with detailed operational follow-up

Why this role matters

This role plays a critical part in improving business performance across a large-scale projects portfolio by bringing strong financial leadership, execution discipline, and portfolio visibility. The Portfolio Projects Finance Leader helps ensure the business delivers on its commitments for gr