Target Start Date: February 1, 2020

Reports To: VP of Finance

Location: San Francisco, CA (Preferred) or New York, NY

Carbon Lighthouse is looking for a hands-on, resilient, and agile professional for our finance organization. This position ensures timely, accurate and comprehensive information for decision making, and plays a pivotal role in driving financial performance.

The position will be responsible for the financial budget and forecasting, scenario planning, business and financial modeling, capital investment analysis, risk analysis, M&A activities, annual operations planning, and long-term business planning. A successful candidate will be able to develop trusted relationships with key leaders across the organization and become the go-to for internal financial decision support. This role reports to the VP of Finance who is based in San Francisco, CA.

About Carbon Lighthouse:

Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. The company’s unique approach to Efficiency Production goes deep into buildings to uncover and continuously correct hidden inefficiencies that add up to meaningful financial value and carbon elimination that lasts. Since 2010, commercial real estate, educational, hospitality and industrial customers nationwide have chosen Carbon Lighthouse to enhance building comfort, increase net operating income and achieve their sustainability goals.

We are a team that highly value question asking, getting it done, integrity, and teamwork. We prize transparency and communication, hold ourselves to high standards of performance and professionalism, and support our team members’ professional development. 

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting for Carbon Lighthouse. Prepare budgets, forecasts, financial plans (operational and strategic), cash flow projections, and business forecasts.
• Build performance management reports (Financial and Non-Financial Indicators).
• Develop financial models, conduct benchmarking and process analysis.
• Conduct business studies on past, future and comparative performance and develop forecast models.
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements. Identify trends, advise company and recommend actions based on sound evaluation 
• Conduct customer/product pricing and profitability analysis
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
• Guide cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
• Support capital budgeting and expenditure planning processes
• Evaluate deals profitability and risk
• Forecast cash flow to ensure funds availability
• Deliver Project Finance reports

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of business finance experience. 
• Experience in a startup or other fast-changing environment and in a quantitatively heavy role
• Proven working experience as a financial analyst
• BA in Business, Economics, Finance or Engineering. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to effectively interact with Executive management and cross-functional teams
• Ability to explain complex financial matters to a non-technical audience.
• Ability to summarize and present information for decision making
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to consolidate data from multiple sources into a cohesive and comprehensive analytic.
• Strategy and planning, an ability to think ahead and plan over a 12-24-month time span.

Bonus Qualifications:

• MBA
• Operational experience 

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary + equity
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave benefits
• Subsidized public transit and bike to work benefits
• 401(k)
  

Carbon Lighthouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Carbon Lighthouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with federal, state and local legal requirements.

If you’re excited about our environmental mission and this looks like a fit, you should apply! Please fill out the brief application form and be prepared to submit three references at a later date.