Strategic Finance Engagement Lead - Climate Tech and Energy Transition Startups
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Planetary Scale AdvisorsClimate Tech, Energy Transition
US (Remote), US timezonesFull-TimeLead
Salary180000 - 220000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7-12 years (or 1-3 years post-MBA)
Requirements
- 7-12 years of experience (or 1-3 years post-MBA)
- Experience in top-tier investing/banking/consulting, or senior finance roles at a venture-backed company
- Real financial acumen and modeling fluency, capable of building models that hold up under investor scrutiny
- Experience serving clients in high-stakes environments, including managing up, anticipating questions, and knowing when to push back
- Strong commitment to working on climate and energy transition
- Ability to learn fast across unfamiliar domains and navigate ambiguity
- Experience working with venture-backed founders (helpful)
- Exposure to fundraising processes from either side of the table (helpful)
- Familiarity with GAAP sufficient to scrutinize books and oversee an accounting team (helpful)
- Excitement about building with AI to improve work (helpful)
Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements across a portfolio of 3-4 climate tech companies
- Deeply understand each founder’s business and identify success drivers
- Build financial models that drive key decisions, inform board meetings, and fundraising conversations
- Establish weekly and monthly rhythms for financial visibility and outlook
- Build and own the financial architecture for each client engagement, including three-statement projection models, scenario analyses, and KPI dashboards
- Lead fundraising preparation and capital strategy, including preparing materials and sourcing alternatives like venture debt and equipment leasing
- Build the cadence for financial clarity, including weekly check-ins, monthly reviews, and proactive analysis
- Oversee the finance function across your client portfolio, coordinating PSA associates, client staff, and third-party bookkeepers
- Advise founders on strategic questions behind the numbers, such as resource allocation, commercialization pathways, and revenue models
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