Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

About the role

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company focused on developing and deploying technologies to unlock the vast energy potential of the oceans. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy where the best ideas drive the company's direction.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain corporate finance, FP&A, and liquidity models supporting budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, runway analysis, and capital allocation decisions.
• Create financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, structured financing, tax credits, asset-level economics, and capital strategy.
• Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans, vendor quotes, BOMs, headcount plans, facilities assumptions, and deployment schedules into financial forecasts.
• Develop durable planning tools providing leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across build, buy, finance, and deployment decisions.
• Support budgets, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, board materials, investor updates, lender materials, and capital raise processes with clean, decision-ready analysis.
• Work closely with accounting to reconcile forecasts to actuals, improve data quality, and ground financial models in reliable operating and accounting information.
• Identify and address the highest-leverage gaps in Panthalassa’s financial operating system through practical mechanisms.

About You

You are analytical, curious, and comfortable with ambiguity. You can build a model from a blank sheet, explain the logic behind it, and defend the conclusions under senior-level scrutiny. You are not satisfied with formatting outputs or following inherited templates. You want to understand the underlying physics, operations, tax rules, financing terms, and commercial constraints well enough to build models that reflect reality. You communicate clearly with both finance and non-finance teams, able to sit with an operations lead and understand what is changing on the floor, and translate it into a forecast. You can sit with leadership, explain what changed, and separate the signal from the noise. You bring rigor without creating unnecessary process.

Required Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, structured finance, private equity, private credit, strategic finance, corporate finance, or FP&A in a high-growth, capital-intensive company.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills, including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, scenario analysis, debt schedules, capitalization structures, and returns analysis.
• Experience building models used for real decisions, not just reporting packages.
• A strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, working capital, liquidity, and structured capital solutions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex analysis into concise recommendations for leadership, investors, lenders, and the board.
• High ownership, strong attention to detail, and comfort working under tight deadlines with incomplete information.
• A deep interest in hardware, manufacturing, energy, compute infrastructure, or other physical-world businesses.

Preferred Qualifications

• Investment banking analyst or associate experience, especially in infrastructure, power, industrials, technology, or structured finance.
• Experience with renewable energy tax credits, tax equity, transferability, asset-backed structures, private credit, or infrastructure financings.
• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, clean technology, power, data centers, maritime, aerospace, defense, or other capital-intensive industries.
• Familiarity with ERP, procurement, accounting, PLM, MRP, MES, or other operating systems that feed financial planning tools.
• Strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools that improve speed and accuracy.

Additional Requirements

• This role requires regular on-site presence in Portland, Oregon, where our office, lab, and shop are located.
• You should be comfortable working across office, lab, shop, supplier, and future manufacturing environments, including occasional longer hours during board, financing, planning, or time-sensitive operational cycles.

Compensation and Benefits

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:

• Cash compensation of $150,000 - $210,000
• Equity in the company. We're all owners, and if we're successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners and dependents)
• Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).

Location

This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.