Rhombuspower
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Palo Alto, California, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will build financial models, reporting, forecasting, and planning processes. They will support leadership by analyzing revenue, delivery costs, hiring, and contract timing to inform investment decisions.
What you will do
- Assist in the creation, maintenance, and execution of the annual corporate budget
- Update and maintain monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts using integrated three-statement models
- Build driver-based forecasts connecting sales pipeline, contract dates, and implementation schedules to financial performance
- Perform scenario analysis and financial modeling to stress-test growth assumptions
- Maintain visibility into bookings, ARR, recognized revenue, billings, and cash collections
- Partner with Sales and customer teams to forecast renewals, expansion, and churn
- Conduct monthly actual-versus-budget and actual-versus-forecast variance analysis
- Track corporate cash burn, working capital metrics, and primary efficiency ratios
- Maintain workforce models covering positions, hiring dates, compensation, and benefits
- Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reviews and build BI dashboards
Required qualifications
- Approximately 3-5 years of relevant experience, including direct responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis
- Experience working on lean teams with personal ownership
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Experience building integrated three-statement and driver-based models
- Strong accounting fundamentals
- An understanding of SaaS revenue mechanics and metrics, including ARR, retention, bookings, revenue recognition, and gross margin
- Experience developing BI dashboards and reconciling financial and operational datasets
- Demonstrated ability to build planning models, reporting, or processes from scratch
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience in a small or midsize B2B SaaS company
- Experience working in enterprise sales cycles or meaningful implementation and delivery costs
- SQL and workflow automation skills
- Exposure to government-facing software businesses, federal procurement cycles, or contract-level financial analysis
- Experience forecasting cloud or AI infrastructure costs, deployment economics, or customer-level profitability
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, vision coverage for employee and dependents
- 401k matching program
- PTO and Holidays
- Bonus and other incentive programs
- Access to mental health program
- Access to Flexible Spending Accounts for Health Care, Dependent and Commuter
Before you apply
- Must meet the 4 days/week onsite requirement in the Palo Alto office
About the company
Rhombus Power, Inc. delivers AI-powered predictive intelligence for defense and national security organizations. The startup is located in Palo Alto at Stanford Research Park.