PT Commercial Finance Leader – Power Transmission

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Chief Commercial Officer and Global PT CFO to define the commercial strategy.

• Direct commercial financial underwriting for global tenders.

• Offer independent financial scrutiny throughout the bidding process.

• Establish and uphold commercial finance governance, delegated authorities, and risk review forums.

• Organize financial terms during customer negotiations, incorporating advances, billing milestones, payment security, guarantees, liquidated damages, cancellation provisions, and liability exposure.

• Ensure tender cost estimates are grounded in realistic engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and installation assumptions.

• Propel pricing analytics and uphold pricing discipline.

• Analyze long-term agreements and capacity reservation arrangements.

• Create strategies to mitigate inflation, foreign exchange, raw material, and tariff risks.

• Evaluate customer creditworthiness, payment risk, deal cash profiles, and financing costs.

• Ensure a structured transition from commercial teams to execution.

• Lead commercial portfolio analytics for executive assessments.

• Document project performance lessons for future costing, pricing, and underwriting initiatives.

• Streamline and standardize commercial finance processes through automation and analytical tools.

• Build and nurture a global commercial and risk finance team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• Extensive progressive experience in commercial finance, risk management, or senior business finance positions.

• Background in supporting a global industrial or project-oriented business.

• Strong knowledge of tendering processes, contract negotiation, and long-term customer commitments.

• Proficiency in financial underwriting, cost modeling, pricing, margin analysis, and cash flow assessment.

• Deep understanding of contractual risks, including payment security, guarantees, liquidated damages, termination liabilities, warranties, and escalation clauses.

• Experience in evaluating foreign exchange, inflation, commodity, and tariff risks.

• Ability to formulate commercial solutions while safeguarding profitability, cash flow, and financial controls.

• Proven experience in establishing and implementing governance frameworks, delegated authorities, and risk review processes across a matrix organization.

• Strong analytical and communication abilities.

• Experience in leading global teams and collaborating with Sales, Commercial Operations, Legal, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance.

• Demonstrated history of process improvement, talent development, and upholding high standards of integrity, independence, and accountability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote position.

• Relocation assistance is not provided.