Summary:
- Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner – Missions Line of Business
- Department: Finance
- Location: Espoo, Finland
- Reports to VP – Finance
- Permanent
- Working Arrangement: Office
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)
The Mission of the Senior Finance Business Partner – Missions
Enable the Missions LoB to scale with confidence by delivering forward-looking financial insight, structuring complex international contracts, and providing the commercial and operational foundations required to support ICEYE’s most ambitious global growth plans.
The Senior Finance Business Partner plays a critical role in Missions by partnering directly with sales, product, and delivery teams to enable high-quality commercial and operational decisions. The role spans three core areas: supporting and shaping complex cross-border contracts, delivering accurate performance management and forecasting, and ensuring the financial integrity of multi-year ISR programmes from inception through execution.
Success in this position hinges on exceptional stakeholder management. The Missions LoB operates at a blistering pace, and the Finance Business Partner must build trust quickly, influence senior stakeholders, and provide clear, timely insight. The ideal candidate is dynamic and intellectually curious-able to connect strategic context with detailed analysis, anticipate issues before they arise, and help the business scale effectively and responsibly.
Who We Are
ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy – day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.
As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring (including oil-spill detection), and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.
ICEYE operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.
Requirements
Expected Outcomes & Requirements
Outcomes:
1. High-quality financial support for Missions deals and contracts
- All Missions opportunities >5% probability have a complete, up-to-date business case with clear financial implications and cross-border contract structuring considerations.
- Deal support is consistently delivered on time and to a high standard, enabling informed decision-making by Missions leadership.
- Contract risks, dependencies, and financial exposures are surfaced early with actionable recommendations.
2. Reliable, transparent forecasting and performance management
- Deliver a high-quality 3-year rolling forecast for Missions, aligned with Salesforce pipeline data, programme delivery schedules, and long-term strategic objectives.
- Provide accurate and timely visibility into revenue, margin, OPEX-to-COGS allocations, and key drivers of financial performance.
- Establish clear variance explanations and forward-looking insights that enable leadership to take proactive action.
3. Strong programme financial governance and disciplined delivery
- Multi-year ISR programmes are financially well-controlled, with clear margin expectations, identified exposures, and ongoing monitoring of delivery economics.
- Support the introduction of improved COGS allocations and programme-level cost visibility across Missions.
- Ensure financial delivery milestones (billing, cash collection, revenue recognition inputs) are aligned with operational progress.
4. Strengthened cash discipline and invoicing performance
- Enable improved cash-collection outcomes through better milestone planning, stakeholder alignment, and programme oversight.
- Support Missions in achieving >95% invoice collection and elimination of bad-debt provisions.
- Provide accurate, forward-looking cash-flow visibility linked to signed and inflight programmes.
5. Effective stakeholder partnership that accelerates execution
- Missions leadership consistently relies on finance insight to assess trade-offs, prioritise opportunities, and steer delivery.
- Key stakeholders rate Finance as a proactive, trusted partner who anticipates issues before they escalate.
- The Finance Business Partner is embedded deeply enough in Missions workflows to provide real-time guidance during critical decision cycles.
Role-specific Competences
- Commercial Finance: Expert in pricing, margin modeling, revenue forecasting, and structuring complex multi-year deals that hold up under scrutiny.
- Programme Economics: Reads delivery schedules, technical dependencies, and operational constraints quickly-and converts them into clear financial impacts.
- Forecasting & Planning: Builds disciplined rolling forecasts grounded in pipeline reality, contractual commitments, and delivery milestones.
- Risk Identification: Spots commercial and delivery risks early, quantifies them, and drives teams to resolution before they affect performance.
- Stakeholder Influence: Challenges assumptions, shapes decisions, and earns the confidence of senior sales, product, and delivery leaders.
- Strategic-to-Detail Range: Moves seamlessly from strategic framing to deep financial analysis without losing accuracy or context.
Key Competences
In addition to the requirements above, we evaluate candidates on these key qualities throughout the hiring process:
- Intellectual Firepower: Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.
- Passion & Work Ethic: Brings sustained motivation, resilience, and high personal standards to every challenge.
- Ownership & Action: Assumes full accountability for outcomes, acting decisively, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
- Team Player: Works collaboratively across teams, contributing to shared success, and engaging in constructive debate.
- Integrity & Growth Mindset: Operates with transparency and humility, learns from setbacks, and actively seeks opportunities to grow.
Application Process
- Interviews with senior stakeholders across Finance, Sales and Product leadership
Benefits
What We Offer at ICEYE
At ICEYE, you will join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. We know that we will succeed only through exceptional people in our team – which is why your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority.
As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. You will benefit from continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture that values collaboration, curiosity, and integrity. ICEYE is a place where your contributions have a visible impact, and where we celebrate success together.
Benefits
Finland
- A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
- An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
- Occupational healthcare, occupational, and accident insurance
- A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, bike benefit, wellness, lunch, etc.)
- Phone subscription with iPhone of choice
- Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support)
- Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
- Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus
- Base salary range for this position is contingent on your experience level, and will be negotiated individually.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At ICEYE, we believe that diversity isn’t just a buzzword – it’s our greatest asset.
We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every voice is not only heard but celebrated. We know that diverse perspectives breed innovation and creativity, which is why we actively seek out individuals from all walks of life, backgrounds, and experiences.
Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table. Join us and be part of a team where differences are not only embraced but cherished, because together, we’re stronger.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those who may need workplace adjustments. If you require any specific accommodations or assistance during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know.
Apply now to start your ICEYE journey, and help us continue to make the impossible possible together. Read more about ICEYE and working with us at iceye.com.
