Chief Financial Officer

Description

• Lead capital planning: debt, equity, and alternative financing structures relevant to solar deployment.
• Support product cost-down initiatives through detailed COGS analysis, supplier cost modeling, and margin improvement strategies.
• Present clear, actionable insights to leadership and the board through monthly financial reviews, operational dashboards, and variance analyses.
• 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.
• Manage lender relationships and covenant compliance
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and multi-year planning across all functions—including hardware production, supply chain/logistics, field deployment, and customer project lifecycles.
• Collaborate with project delivery and EPC partners to model project schedules, revenue recognition, installation economics, and cash flow requirements.
• Develop and own the company’s long-term financial strategy, ensuring alignment with growth, product roadmap, manufacturing scale-up, and market expansion goals.
• Together with the accounting team, ensure financial statements are in compliance with US GAAP.
• Own 13-week cash forecast, ensuring liquidity needs are met
• Manage and develop finance and accounting team members
• Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and executive team on corporate strategy, resource prioritization, and capital structure.
• Oversee development of sophisticated financial models to support scenario planning, unit economics, pricing strategy, and hardware/software margin optimization.
• Ensure alignment between Finance, Accounting, Operations, Commercial, and Strategy to maintain data integrity and forecasting accuracy.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to forecast material costs, lead times, logistics, and manufacturing capacity needs.
• 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
• Establish finance-based company KPIs to bring alignment across all functions.

Requirements

• Experience building finance functions during scale-up, including team development and systems implementation.
• Proven ability to influence executive-level decision-making through data-driven analysis and clear communication.
• Familiarity with capital raising, investor reporting, and financial diligence for Series B/C/D stages or equivalent.
• 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.
• Own reporting, analysis, and narratives to investors/the Board
• Exceptional leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of hardware unit economics, manufacturing cost structures, supply chain financials, and gross margin analysis.
• Demonstrated success leading company-wide financial planning and driving alignment across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
• Experience in high-growth, startup or venture-backed solar or clean energy companies.
• Advanced expertise in financial modeling and planning tools (Excel/Google Sheets, NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of revenue recognition for product + field services.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA strongly preferred.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance