Part - time Financial Adviser providing financial advice and support in South Africa. Offering financial solutions based on existing networks and maintaining client relationships.
About the role
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus, commission (if applicable to the role)
- Stock options
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Long term disability
- Voluntary life insurance
- 401(k) participation
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous sick leave
- Paid company holidays
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