Strategic Finance Manager

The role

You will build and maintain analytical infrastructure connecting operations, accounting, strategy, and finance. This role supports resource planning, manufacturing scale-up, capital strategy, and capital formation efforts.

What you will do

• Create and maintain durable planning tools for leadership visibility into cash needs and capital efficiency
• Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, accounting, and strategy teams to translate plans into financial forecasts
• Build corporate finance and liquidity models for resource planning and capital allocation
• Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, and capital strategy
• Draft presentations and data visualizations for leadership, investors, and lenders
• Support capital raise processes and investor relations with analysis and materials
• Work with accounting to reconcile forecasts to actuals and improve data quality
• Identify and build mechanisms to close gaps in the financial operating system

Required qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, private credit, or structured finance
• Experience in a high-growth or capital-intensive operating environment
• Advanced Excel modeling skills including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, and returns analysis
• Experience building models used for real decisions
• Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, working capital, liquidity, and structured capital solutions
• Excellent communication skills
• High ownership, strong attention to detail, and comfort working under tight deadlines with incomplete information
• Deep interest in hardware, manufacturing, energy, compute infrastructure, or other physical-world businesses

Nice to have

• 2+ years investment banking analyst or associate experience, especially in infrastructure, power, industrials, technology, or structured finance
• 1+ year(s) of experience at a high-growth, capital-intensive startup
• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, clean technology, power, data centers, maritime, aerospace, defense, or other capital-intensive industries
• Experience with renewable energy tax credits, tax equity, transferability, asset-backed structures, private credit, or infrastructure financings
• Familiarity with ERP, procurement, accounting, or other operating systems
• Strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools

Benefits

• Equity in the company
• Flexible paid time off
• 100% company-paid gold-level PPO health insurance for employees, partners, and dependents
• 100% company-paid dental insurance for employees, partners, and dependents
• 100% company-paid vision insurance for employees, partners, and dependents
• 100% company-paid disability insurance for employees, partners, and dependents
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed)

About the company

Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It is a public benefit corporation focused on capturing renewable energy from oceans.