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Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Richmond, BC
On-site
Posted Sep 20, 2026
1 position

$121,000–$148,000 / year

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job summary

The Manager, FP&A will lead financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting processes while partnering with cross-functional teams to provide actionable insights. They are responsible for maintaining corporate models, cash runway analysis, and evolving the company's financial systems and reporting frameworks.

Job details

Established in 2002, General Fusion (NASDAQ: GFUZ) is a leader in the global race to commercialize fusion energy, and the first publicly listed fusion company. We are pursuing a uniquely practical approach, Magnetized Target Fusion, designed from the ground up with a commercial power plant in mind. At our labs in Richmond, BC, we're operating Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), our fusion demonstration machine built at a commercially relevant scale, as we advance the Lawson program toward key technical milestones. Learn more at www.generalfusion.com [http://www.generalfusion.com/]. Position Overview: As a newly public company, General Fusion is seeking a strategic, hands-on Manager, FP&A to help strengthen and scale our financial planning, reporting, and analysis capabilities. Being newly public, we are looking for a candidate who knows what a high performing FP&A function looks like having worked in other public companies with well-established FP&A processes. The Manager, FP&A will lead financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting across the organization, partnering with Commercial, Operations, department leaders, and Accounting to turn financial data into meaningful insights for management, the Board, and the investment community. This role will maintain the corporate forecast and cash runway, including the three-year corporate model and 10-year long-range forecast, while helping build a more robust and scalable FP&A function. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys both the technical rigor of financial modeling and the process-building work of maturing a finance function, and who is comfortable partnering cross-functionally to gather input and align assumptions across the business. The successful candidate will join a collaborative finance team that values accountability, continuous improvement, and impact. Key Responsibilities: Financial Reporting & Analysis * Own accurate and timely monthly reporting against budget across the company, departments, and key projects. * Deliver variance analysis and actionable financial insights to department leaders and the Senior Leadership Team. * Support financial reporting and materials for Board meetings, analyst calls, and key projects. * Partner with Accounting to ensure an efficient month-end close and accurate management reporting. Financial Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting * Maintain the three-year corporate model and 10-year long-range forecast, providing a current view of financial performance and cash runway. * Lead the annual budgeting and ongoing reforecasting processes, coordinating inputs and assumptions across the organization. * Partner with business and project leaders to validate assumptions and reflect evolving business, project, and commercial plans. * Develop headcount and project-level resource forecasting in partnership with People & Culture. * Evolve financial planning and reporting to support a growing and increasingly diversified project portfolio. FP&A Processes & Systems * Lead the evolution from Excel-based planning toward a scalable FP&A framework with standardized processes, reporting, and governance. * Strengthen data architecture, cost-code structures, and reporting tools to improve financial visibility and decision-making. * Develop dashboards and self-service reporting using tools such as Power BI and Power Query and champion FP&A best practices across the organization. Relevant Skills and Experience: * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; CPA designation required. * Minimum 5 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience, including experience within a public company environment. * Demonstrated experience owning financial models, forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting. * Strong financial modeling skills, including multi-year corporate models, long-range forecasting, and cash runway analysis. * Experience improving processes and helping mature or scale an FP&A function, ideally within a growth-stage or evolving public company. * Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems, BI tools, and financial data extraction.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics and possess a CPA designation. A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in FP&A or corporate finance within a public company environment is required.