Manager Finance and Strategic Projects

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Location: Luxembourg

Mission & Objectives

• Drive Financial Leadership & Strategy: Shape and execute financial strategies that enhance business performance, profitability, and long-term value creation. In close coordination with FP&A head. 
• Lead Decarbonization Finance: Oversee financial viability for decarbonization initiatives, ensuring investment decisions align with sustainability goals.
• Monitor Market & Competition: Provide competitive financial analysis, with a strong focus on investment trends, industry benchmarking, and strategic positioning.
• Support Capex Planning & Execution: Lead capital allocation, ensuring financial oversight and optimization of investment decisions. In coordination with segment CTO team. 
• Strengthen Financial Reporting & Advisory role: Serve as a key advisor to the Segment CFO, for key executable action plan or key messages.
• Support in enhance Finance Processes & Team Development: Improve operational efficiency, implement best practices, and mentor Finance teams for growth and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

Decarbonization & Sustainability Strategy 

• Lead the financial strategy for decarbonization, driving investment decisions and ensuring long-term viability.
• Own the financial oversight of decarb initiatives, maintaining an updated view of project returns—capex, timing, revenue, opex, etc.
• Direct cross-functional teams in shaping the Flat Europe finance view on opex cost implications of decarb footprint scenarios.
• Act as the key Finance representative, ensuring strategic alignment and clear communication of decarb priorities to Group management.

Market & Competition Analysis: 

• Provide oversight for competitor analysis, focusing on financial KPIs, strategic initiatives, operational insights, and investment trends.
• Ensure timely delivery of quarterly reports and actionable insights to inform leadership decision-making, particularly regarding competitor investment patterns and market positioning.

Joint Ventures & Executive Support:

• Provide strategic financial support to the Segment CFO and CEO in their roles on JV boards, ensuring alignment with broader segment objectives.
• Facilitate financial reporting and governance oversight to support key decision-making for JV entities.

Strategic Initiative Oversight & Capex Controlling:

• Oversee Capex planning and execution, ensuring financial viability and alignment with long-term goals.
• Guide teams in tracking actual spend versus budget and coordinating automation initiatives for Capex reporting.
• Oversee execution of key strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Coordinate with CTO on capex and cash flow planning. 

Financial Strategy, Business Performance & Reporting:

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the Segment CFO, driving value creation initiatives (e.g., CO2, hedging, STIP, LTIP) while ensuring financial oversight of the Flat Europe Segment and Clusters.
• Oversee key Finance reporting needs, including Quarterly BAR, Annual Strategy, and Business Plan Meetings, delivering actionable insights.
• Support ad hoc financial projects, collaborating with Government Affairs, Group Treasury, CCM, Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, and Strategy teams.

Finance Process Improvement & People Development:

• Participate in shaping the evolution of Segment Finance processes, improving efficiency and service delivery to stakeholders.
• Support knowledge-sharing Finance team development and cross-functional collaboration initiatives.
• Support in implementing best practices in financial reporting and governance, ensuring organizational effectiveness.

Key Qualifications

• 12–15 years’ finance experience in Manufacturing preferably steel, mining, or heavy industry
• Strong background in financial strategy, decarbonization, and advanced financial modeling
• Skilled in Capex budging, planning, market/competitive analysis, and supporting joint venture businesses
• Excellent at influencing and advising senior leaders to steer the business
• High integrity, analytical mindset, and adaptability

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 16 countries. In 2022, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $79.8 billion and crude steel production of 59.0 million metric tonnes, while iron ore production reached 45.3 million metric tonnes. Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future. ArcelorMittal is listed on the stock exchanges of New York (MT), Amsterdam (MT), Paris (MT), Luxembourg (MT) and on the Spanish stock exchanges of Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia (MTS).  For more information about ArcelorMittal please visit: http://corporate.arcelormittal.com