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Finance / FP&A Manager

Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions. The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders. Project Canary is seeking a hands-on Finance / FP&A Manager who will report to the VP of Finance. This is an excellent opportunity for a rising finance leader to make significant impact in a mission-driven, transitioning business. The Director of Strategic Finance will own all financial modeling for the company across FP&A, budgeting, and corporate development. This role will develop analysis, use data, and deliver insights to drive execution across the company. The Finance / FP&A Manager will partner closely with all functions to tie financial information directly to company strategy, decisions and outcomes. The ideal candidate is attentive to detail, a creative problem solver, a financial modeling expert, and a builder-doer who is willing to jump into new situations and push priorities forward.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Modeling & Analysis

  • Build and own all financial modeling for the company, including long-range planning, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, scenarios and ad hoc analyses
  • Establish and manage financial modeling best practices and standards across the organization
  • Develop custom models and tools to support both strategic initiatives and day-to-day execution
  • Connect financial models and data with company-wide and departmental decision-making
  • Partner with commercial teams to drive customer acquisition, revenue growth, pricing strategy, unit economics, product development, and profitability
  • Develop and track key metrics that deliver insights to leadership and specific teams
  • Create frameworks, systems and processes that drive data- and fact-based decision making
  • Prepare Board and investor-facing financial models and presentations

Corp Dev & Strategic Finance

  • Support financial due diligence and execution of capital raises and potential M&A opportunities
  • Partner with legal, commercial, and operational teams on complex commercial agreements
  • Evaluate strategic partnerships and opportunities, culminating in recommendation and action
  • Create analyses, presentations, and data visualizations that support a business case
  • Implement scalable practices across finance and operations, improving systems and processes
  • Champion data quality and analytical rigor across the organization

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting

  • Manage company-wide annual budget process, partnering with each department head and executive team
  • Create and maintain monthly reporting and quarterly forecasts
  • Own reporting and variance analysis against company-wide and departmental budgets and OKRs aim to foster accountability and deliver actionable insights
  • Prepare Board materials and investor reporting packages
  • Partner with Controller and VP Finance to unify financial information across forecasting (i.e., forward-looking) and reporting (i.e., backward-looking)

Qualifications

Experience

  • 7+ years overall
  • Background in investment banking, private equity, or venture capital is strongly preferred
  • Hands-on experience at a startup or venture-to-growth stage company is also preferred
  • Recent roles in climate tech, SaaS, or advanced manufacturing environments is a plus ideal candidate has a strong grasp of unit economics, cost structures and scalability, as well as experience around natural gas supply chains and SaaS/enterprise software
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, accounting, or a technical field
  • Master's degree, MBA or CFA is a plus

Core Competencies

  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong communication skills to simplify complex concepts into key conclusions
  • Detail-oriented while maintaining strategic perspective
  • Proven ability to influence and partner across all organizational levels
  • Strong project management skills with ability to execute multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Self-starter with entrepreneurial mindset and a bias toward action and continuous improvement
  • Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
  • Advanced Excel modeling skills with ability to build complex, dynamic models from scratch

Benefits

  • Salary range: $ annual base
  • Hybrid work environment (at least 3 days/week in Denver office
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
  • 401K with company match (no vesting period)
  • Opportunity for equity ownership
  • Student loan assistance
  • Generous culture around time off, including:
    • 4 weeks of PTO per year
    • 6 days of sick time per year
    • 11 paid company holidays per year
    • Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Flex Choice Monthly Stipend choice between parking, public transportation, or wellness assistance
  • Dog friendly office environment

About Project Canary

Project Canary was founded in 2019 with a vision to measure what matters the greenhouse gases emitted from critical parts of our energy infrastructure. Our team is constantly pushing the envelope to bring more visibility to the emissions problem than ever before enabling the energy sector to reduce its carbon footprint.

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