Head of Finance

The role

The Head of Finance will own strategic finance, FP&A, accounting, AR, AP, and debt financing. You will report to the CEO and support scaling from current deployments to a Series B and a manufacturing facility.

What you will do

• Run equity fundraises end to end including modeling, dataroom, investor pipeline, diligence, term-sheet negotiation, closing, and cap table management
• Source, negotiate, and manage equipment financing facilities including equipment lease and ABL
• Prepare and submit asset schedules, track collateral and covenants, and manage lender payments
• Own and iterate the financial model to forecast runway, burn, headcount, unit economics, and project pricing
• Manage daily cash, short-term cash forecasting, banking relationships, and corporate card and spend programs
• Own AP, approvals, and month-end close while keeping the GL clean in QuickBooks
• Manage federal and state tax filings, R&D tax credit studies, 1099s, and multi-state tax posture
• Manage HQ lease and key vendor and provider relationships
• Build out a finance team to scale as the company grows

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in finance
• Time as the senior finance lead at a venture-backed startup (Series A–C)
• Experience raising capital on both sides of the balance sheet: equity and debt
• Ability to build and own complex, three-statement financial models
• Comfort owning operational areas including insurance, tax, payroll, and procurement
• Fluency in accounting and close (GAAP, AP, accruals, audit-readiness)
• Ability to manage outsourced bookkeepers and tax advisors
• Based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area
• Able to work in person at the San Leandro HQ

Nice to have

• Equipment, project, or infrastructure finance experience (sale-leasebacks, asset-backed lending, CapEx-heavy businesses)
• Worked in hardware, robotics, manufacturing, energy, or construction
• Taken a company through a Series B or a first financial audit
• Experience deploying equity capital or lending to early-stage, CapEx-heavy businesses (investment banking, private equity, venture, or private credit)
• Experience with international contracts or entities
• Experience hiring and managing a small Finance or Operations team

About the company

Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms. The company is MIT-founded and backed by investors including Energy Impact Partners, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Y Combinator.