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Corporate Budget Control Manager

ON.energy


Job Location:

Mexico City - Mexico

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 19 August 2026 (25 days ago)
Application Deadline: 16 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

is building the backbone of energy and AI infrastructure powering grid-safe data centers and mission-critical facilities. The company supplies and operates hyperscale power systems that solve the toughest resilience challenges delivering custom solutions for AI data centers mission-critical facilities and front-of-the-meter assets. ON recently announced a 5GW partnership with 3GW currently under construction across multiple hyperscale data center campuses. With patented technology and proprietary softwaredevelops projects worldwide that set new benchmarks for resilience.

is strengthening its FP&A organization to support the companys continued growth improve financial discipline and build a scalable planning and control environment. The Corporate Budget Control Manager will be a key owner of the governance framework that supports the execution of the companys approved corporate SG&A budget.

The role is designed to complement - not duplicate - the responsibilities of the FP&A Business Finance Managers. Business Finance remains responsible for business performance forecasting decision support and P&L ownership. The Corporate Budget Control Manager is responsible for the integrity visibility and disciplined execution of the approved corporate budget across cost centers and shared functions.

Core Mission: Own the integrity of the corporate SG&A budget after it has been approved.

Key Responsibilities
1. Budget Governance & Integrity
  • Own and maintain the governance framework for the approved corporate SG&A budget.
  • Maintain clear budget baselines approved revisions transfers and funding changes with appropriate documentation and traceability.
  • Ensure budget changes are reflected consistently across cost centers departments legal entities and planning systems.
  • Support the annual budgeting process by maintaining governance standards planning calendars templates submission requirements and control checks; overall budget ownership remains with FP&A leadership and Business Finance.
  • Monitor compliance with approved financial policies delegated authorities and budget approval requirements.
2. Cost Center Governance
  • Maintain the corporate cost center structure ownership matrix and financial accountability model.
  • Ensure each cost center has a clearly identified budget owner and an appropriate reporting hierarchy.
  • Partner with Accounting and FP&A to maintain consistent mappings among legal entities departments cost centers and financial reporting structures.
  • Coordinate and document approved cost center changes including new cost centers ownership changes reorganizations and employee reallocations.
  • Recommend structural improvements as the organization grows and reporting requirements evolve.
3. Budget Execution & Spend Control
  • Monitor actual and committed SG&A spend against the approved budget and authorized revisions.
  • Identify budget overruns underutilization timing differences exceptions and emerging spending risks.
  • Provide cost center owners with clear visibility into budget utilization available budget commitments and approved changes.
  • Ensure material deviations are documented and escalated through the appropriate FP&A and management channels.
  • Identify opportunities to improve cost discipline consolidate vendors and support cost-efficiency initiatives.
4. Commitment Management
  • Develop and maintain visibility over material financial commitments that may not yet be reflected in the general ledger.
  • Track significant corporate commitments including professional services software subscriptions facilities insurance corporate vendors and other recurring SG&A obligations.
  • Coordinate with Procurement Legal Accounts Payable Accounting and department owners to improve visibility over open purchase orders contractual commitments renewals and expected spend.
  • Provide Business Finance and Corporate FP&A with timely information on commitments and approved changes so they can be incorporated into forecasts.
  • Identify future spending risks before they materially affect reported results or liquidity planning.
5. Headcount Budget Control
  • Partner with Human Resources and department leaders to monitor approved headcount against budget.
  • Maintain visibility over approved positions vacancies new requisitions organizational changes start dates and personnel-related spending commitments.
  • Ensure employees and approved positions are allocated to the appropriate cost centers and that changes are documented.
  • Provide FP&A with timely headcount changes and commitments for incorporation into payroll and operating expense forecasts.
  • Identify deviations between approved workforce plans and actual hiring activity.
6. Corporate Capital Budget Governance
  • Monitor the budget execution of approved corporate capital investments such as offices laboratories facilities internal technology furniture and equipment.
  • Track approved capital budgets purchase commitments actual expenditures authorized changes and remaining budget availability.
  • Maintain visibility over capital purchase orders and material commitments in coordination with Procurement and Accounting.
  • Provide relevant budget and commitment information to the appropriate FP&A owner and Treasury for forecasting and cash planning.
  • This role does not manage the execution of capital projects; its responsibility is financial governance of the approved corporate capital budget.
7. Financial Governance Monitoring
  • Prepare standardized budget-control reporting by department and cost center focused on budget utilization commitments exceptions approved changes and emerging risks.
  • Support Business Finance Managers with reliable SG&A budget-control information for their monthly business reviews and forecast processes.
  • Maintain transparent documentation of material budget exceptions transfers incremental funding approvals and significant commitments.
  • Partner with cost center owners to ensure they understand their approved budget remaining availability commitments and governance requirements.
  • Focus reporting on financial discipline and budget integrity rather than on ownership of Business Unit P&L performance.
8. Cash Commitment Visibility
  • Provide Corporate FP&A and Treasury with visibility into expected SG&A and corporate capital commitments that may affect future cash requirements.
  • Identify material timing differences between expense recognition contractual commitments purchase orders and expected cash disbursements.
  • Support cash-flow planning with accurate information on approved corporate spend commitments; ownership of the corporate cash-flow model remains with Corporate FP&A and Treasury.
9. Process Improvement & SOX Readiness
  • Standardize budget-control cost-center commitment-tracking and approval-governance processes across corporate functions.
  • Build clear documentation approval evidence ownership and audit trails that support the companys future SOX-readiness objectives.
  • Identify financial governance gaps and coordinate remediation with FP&A leadership and relevant process owners.
  • Improve use of NetSuite and financial reporting tools to reduce manual work strengthen data quality and improve visibility.
  • Promote clear segregation of responsibilities among planning budget governance accounting invoice approval and cash disbursement.

Qualifications
Required
  • Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business Administration Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.
  • 6-10 years of progressive experience in FP&A budget control financial controlling cost control or related finance roles.
  • Strong experience in budgeting cost-center management spend analysis commitment tracking and financial governance.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Advanced Excel and analytical skills with strong attention to data integrity and documentation.
  • Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite or comparable platforms.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
  • High degree of ownership discipline judgment and attention to detail.
Preferred
  • Experience in a high-growth multi-entity organization.
  • Experience in energy infrastructure construction technology or another capital-intensive industry.
  • Experience supporting SOX-ready or SOX-compliant financial processes.
  • Experience improving financial governance procurement controls or corporate planning processes.

For US-based roles - What youll get:

  • Competitive salary annual performance-based bonus eligibility
  • Medical dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid time off and company holidays

For Mexico-based roles - What youll get:

  • Competitive salary annual performance bonus eligibility
  • Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo): 30 days
  • Major medical expenses and life insurance
  • Paid time off and holidays (per local policy)

For all roles:

  • Professional development and growth opportunities
  • Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven team shaping the future of clean energy
  • Equal Opportunity: is committed to equal employment opportunity and to maintaining a work environment free of harassment discrimination or retaliation.
  • Accommodations: If you need an accommodation during the application process email
  • Benefits vary by role and location and are subject to change.

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Required Experience:

Manager