Senior Finance Analyst
Redwood Materials · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
HybridFinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly consolidated financial outlook, integrating operational forecasts, corporate assumptions, and key risk factors into a unified view for leadership.
- Lead monthly close reporting cycles, including detailed variance analysis with clear narrative on drivers and implications.
- Develop and maintain management reporting packages distributed to the executive team and board of directors.
- Continuously improve the accuracy, timeliness, and clarity of consolidated financial reporting processes.
- Support maintenance and refresh of the long-range financial model, incorporating updated operating assumptions, strategic initiatives, and market conditions on a quarterly basis.
- Build and run scenario analyses, sensitivities, and stress tests to support capital allocation and investment decisions.
- Develop analytical frameworks to evaluate strategic alternatives, new business opportunities, and trade-offs across the corporate portfolio.
- Partner with senior finance leadership to translate strategic priorities into quantified financial projections.
- Support consolidated cash flow forecasting by integrating actuals, purchase order activity, payment terms, and operational inputs into a reliable short- and long-range liquidity view.
- Drive working capital analysis and support initiatives to optimize receivables, payables, and inventory dynamics.
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure cash-relevant assumptions are accurate and consistently reflected across models.
- Oversee accurate classification and reconciliation of financial actuals across revenue, cost, and investment categories.
- Conduct comprehensive monthly review and analysis of spend actuals, with variance commentary relative to plan and forecast.
- Identify and drive improvements in financial systems and tools to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency.
- Support preparation of board of directors financial materials, ensuring content is accurate, well-structured, and delivered on time.
- Support development of quarterly investor communications that clearly convey operational and financial performance and strategic progress.
- Translate complex financial data into concise, executive-ready narratives for board and investor audiences.
- Provide deep-dive analysis on high-impact financial and corporate decisions, including capital structure, liquidity, and organizational growth.
- Scope and structure ambiguous problems independently, delivering well-reasoned recommendations under tight timelines.
- Evaluate and recommend tools or process improvements that enhance the efficiency and quality of FP&A outputs.
Qualifications
- 2-4 years of increasingly complex experience in financial planning, analysis, and corporate-level modeling.
- Demonstrated ability to execute complex modeling and reporting workstreams with a high degree of independence and strong attention to detail.
- Strong background in consolidation, cash flow forecasting, and long-range financial modeling.
- Experience preparing materials for board of directors or C-suite audiences.
- Advanced Excel skills; able to build, adapt, and audit large financial models efficiently.
- Familiarity with ERP and financial planning systems; experience linking actuals data to forecast models a plus.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills; able to influence and communicate clearly at all levels of management.
- Ability to develop structured frameworks and clear recommendations on ambiguous, high-stakes questions.
- Experience in manufacturing, energy, clean technology, or other capital-intensive industries a plus.