Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planetary Scale is a strategic finance partner for climate and energy-transition companies, supporting founders from seed through growth. They are seeking a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to own analytical work, build financial models, and assist in fundraising efforts for climate tech startups.
Responsibilities
- Support climate tech founders with financial modeling, analysis, research, and finance ops
- Build and maintain three-statement models, scenario analyses, and KPI dashboards that founders use to steer their companies and bring into their most important conversations
- Support fundraising across equity, venture debt, and grants — contributing to pitch materials, data rooms, diligence responses, and round structuring
- Run the financial analysis that gives founders clarity — budgeting, benchmarking, KPI tracking, and the kind of proactive digging that finds issues before they become problems
- Prepare investor and board reporting that communicates performance accurately and clearly
- Set up and oversee the systems behind the back office — bookkeeping, accounts payable, invoicing, and payroll — designing efficient processes and keeping them running cleanly
- Research sectors and business models across the climate and energy transition, developing real expertise that sharpens the advice we give
Skills
- Support climate tech founders with financial modeling, analysis, research, and finance ops
- Build and maintain three-statement models, scenario analyses, and KPI dashboards
- Support fundraising across equity, venture debt, and grants
- Run financial analysis including budgeting, benchmarking, KPI tracking
- Prepare investor and board reporting
- Set up and oversee back office systems including bookkeeping, accounts payable, invoicing, and payroll
- Research sectors and business models across the climate and energy transition
- Learn fast across unfamiliar domains
- Maintain accuracy in all work
- Take ownership by default
- Think critically before building
- Enhance the effectiveness of those around you
- Have serious analytical and modeling horsepower
- Communicate clearly under scrutiny
- Care about climate and energy transition work
- 3–6 years (MBB, IB, or comparable analytical background)
- Worked with venture-backed startups before
- Exposure to fundraising from either side of the table
- Working knowledge of finance and accounting frameworks
- Excited about building with AI to improve how we work
Benefits
- Performance bonus
- Shadow client equity
- Benefits
- 401K with match
- 30 days of PTO
- Fully remote with occasional travel to client sites and to NYC for Climate Week each September
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