Director of Finance, Manufacturing
Director of Finance, Manufacturing
Graphyte | Via Climate People - Series A Climate Tech | Remote (U.S.) with travel
About Graphyte
Graphyte is a carbon removal company building durable, scalable infrastructure to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere. By combining innovative processing techniques with engineered storage solutions, Graphyte transforms biomass into stable carbon and sequesters it securely underground. The company is focused on delivering high-integrity carbon removal at commercially meaningful scale. We are moving from early production to repeatable, high-efficiency operations, and financial performance is tightly coupled to what happens on the plant floor.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Director of Finance, Manufacturing to build and own financial planning for a capital-intensive, manufacturing-driven business.
This is not a traditional FP&A role, but rather a hands-on role partnering directly with operations. You’ll connect plant performance to financial outcomes and help scale production efficiently.
What You’ll Do
- Build bottom-up models linking throughput, yield, downtime, labor, and input costs to unit economics
- Own cost-per-unit frameworks and production scaling scenarios
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and operational variance analysis
- Partner with plant and engineering teams to translate metrics into financial outcomes
- Evaluate CapEx investments and support production ramp decisions
- Improve cost tracking, data visibility, and financial processes through useful dashboard
About You
- 7–15 years in finance
- Experience in manufacturing, industrials, energy, chemicals, or hardware
- Proven ability to build operational and or plant-level financial models
- Proven ability to translate physical processes to financial outcomes (variable, fixed costs, KPI's, Yield %, uptime, OEE)
- Strong FP&A background with hands-on modeling skills
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and imperfect data
- Experience at a high-growth startup or scaling manufacturing environment
- Experience with ERP / manufacturing systems implementation
- You should be equally comfortable on the plant floor and in a spreadsheet, and motivated to build rather than just report.
What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)
- A clear, trusted cost-per-unit model tied to real operations
- Budgets and forecasts that are actually used—and followed
- Visibility into key cost drivers and operational performance
- Improved alignment between finance and manufacturing
- More disciplined, data-driven capital allocation decisions
Why This Role Matters
You’ll directly impact production scale, cost structure, and capital efficiency at a critical stage of growth.
Compensation
Competitive salary, bonus + equity