Chief Financial Officer leading financial strategy and operational discipline for solar tracker company. Collaborating with various teams to ensure financial alignment across projects and cost optimizations.
Responsibilities
Develop and own the company’s long-term financial strategy, ensuring alignment with growth, product roadmap, manufacturing scale-up, and market expansion goals.
Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and executive team on corporate strategy, resource prioritization, and capital structure.
Establish finance-based company KPIs to bring alignment across all functions.
Manage and develop finance and accounting team members.
Lead capital planning: debt, equity, and alternative financing structures relevant to solar deployment.
Manage lender relationships and covenant compliance.
Own reporting, analysis, and narratives to investors/the Board.
Own 13-week cash forecast, ensuring liquidity needs are met.
Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and multi-year planning across all functions—including hardware production, supply chain/logistics, field deployment, and customer project lifecycles.
Oversee development of sophisticated financial models to support scenario planning, unit economics, pricing strategy, and hardware/software margin optimization.
Present clear, actionable insights to leadership and the board through monthly financial reviews, operational dashboards, and variance analyses.
Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to forecast material costs, lead times, logistics, and manufacturing capacity needs.
Collaborate with project delivery and EPC partners to model project schedules, revenue recognition, installation economics, and cash flow requirements.
Support product cost-down initiatives through detailed COGS analysis, supplier cost modeling, and margin improvement strategies.
Together with the accounting team, ensure financial statements are in compliance with US GAAP.
Introduce efficiencies and documentation standards for a faster, cleaner month-end close.
Work with external auditors to publish audited financials in compliance with investor and lender requirements.
Partner with external tax firm for timely filing of income taxes, including reporting of 45x rebates, and ensure sales tax compliance.
Drive implementation and optimization of financial systems, ERP integrations, data infrastructure, and workflow automation to support a growing hardware company.
Ensure alignment between Finance, Accounting, Operations, Commercial, and Strategy to maintain data integrity and forecasting accuracy.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA strongly preferred.
10–15+ years of progressive finance leadership, including experience overseeing FP&A, strategic finance, and/or accounting at a scaling organization.
Experience in solar, renewable energy, hardware manufacturing, or construction/EPC industries strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success leading company-wide financial planning and driving alignment across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
Advanced expertise in financial modeling and planning tools (Excel/Google Sheets, NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, etc.).
Proven ability to influence executive-level decision-making through data-driven analysis and clear communication.
Exceptional leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
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