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.