Base Power
Deployment Finance & Business Operations
Austin, TX. Posted 4 months ago
The role
This person will own the economics of installation and field service end-to-end. They will manage forecasts, build unit-cost models, and partner with deployment and field-service leadership to drive cost-down roadmaps.
What you will do
- Own the forecast and BvA for install cost, field labor, logistics, permitting, and ongoing O&M
- Build the unit-cost model for installations and reconcile it weekly against job-level data
- Partner with deployments and field-service leadership on the cost-down roadmap
- Own the financial framework for the 10+ year service obligation
- Feed clean, defensible inputs into the consolidated corporate model
- Ride installs and service calls to pressure-test numbers with the crew
- Use AI tooling to automate job-level analytics and forecasting
Required qualifications
- 3-7 years in finance or operations at a deployment-, field-service-, or logistics-heavy business at meaningful scale
- Track record of building install-cost or service-cost models that drove real cost-down programs in production
- Strong intuition for field economics
- Comfortable in the field
- First-principles instincts on physical operations
- Excel and SQL as native tools
- Comfortable working with operational data at scale and getting into BI (Omni, Looker) directly
Nice to have
- Generalists from operating finance roles, consulting, investing, or investment banking roles
About the company
Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. The finance team provides visibility on performance, finances growth, and supports capital allocation decisions.