Strategic Finance Manager

Panthalassa; Portland, Northern (OR, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company, is hiring a Strategic Finance Manager in Portland, OR. This hands-on role links operations, accounting, strategy, and finance to support budgeting, forecasting, capital strategy, and scaling production for large deployments.

You will lead models from first principles, stress-test assumptions, and contribute to equity and debt raises with leadership. Collaboration and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years in strategic finance, FP&A, IB, PE, or structured finance in high-growth or capital-intensive environments.
• Advanced Excel modeling including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, scenario analysis, debt schedules.
• Experience building models used for real decisions, not just reporting packages.
• Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, liquidity, and capital solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to present concise recommendations to leadership and investors.
• High ownership, detail-oriented, able to work under tight deadlines with incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain planning tools for cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and build/buy/deploy decisions.
• Translate plans and quotes into financial forecasts with cross-functional teams.
• Build liquidity and capital-structure models for resource planning and runway management.
• Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, and financing strategies.
• Draft presentations and data visuals for leadership, investors, and lenders.
• Support capital raise processes with analysis and board materials; coordinate with comms teams.
• Reconcile forecasts to actuals with accounting to improve data quality.
• Identify high-impact gaps and create practical fixes in financial systems.

Skills

Advanced Excel modeling

Financial forecasting

Strategic finance

Clear communication

Ownership & accountability

Attention to detail

Modeling for decision making

Tools

ERP systems

Financial modeling tools

Job description

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

About the Job

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. As Panthalassa moves from pilot systems toward repeatable production, large-scale facilities, and commercial deployments, we need financial systems, models, and decision tools that can keep pace with unlocking planetary-scale energy.

As Strategic Finance Manager, you will help build and maintain the analytical infrastructure that connects operations, accounting, strategy, and finance. Your work will support resource planning, manufacturing scale-up, capital strategy, and the financial decisions that shape how we grow. This is a hands-on strategic finance role for someone who can lead budgeting processes, build rigorous models from first principles, pressure-test assumptions, and turn complex analysis into clear recommendations. You will also be directly engaged in our capital formation efforts, partnering with leadership on equity and debt raises and the investor and lender materials that support them.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain durable planning tools that give leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across build, buy, finance, and deployment decisions.
• Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans, vendor quotes, headcount plans, and deployment schedules into financial forecasts.
• Build corporate finance and liquidity models that support resource planning, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, runway management, and capital allocation decisions.
• Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, structured financing, tax credits, asset-level economics, and capital strategy.
• Draft presentations and data visualizations that translate complex analysis and technical forecasts into clear, compelling materials for leadership, investors, and lenders.
• Support capital raise processes and investor relations with clean, decision-ready analysis, including board materials, investor updates, lender materials, and diligence, partnering with internal and external communications teams on content.
• Work closely with accounting to reconcile forecasts to actuals, improve data quality, and keep financial models grounded in reliable operating and accounting information.
• Identify the highest-leverage gaps in Panthalassa’s financial operating system and build practical mechanisms to close them.

Required Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, private credit, or structured finance, including experience in a high-growth or capital-intensive operating environment.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills, including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, scenario analysis, debt schedules, capitalization structures, and returns analysis.
• Experience building models used for real decisions, not just reporting packages.
• Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, working capital, liquidity, and structured capital solutions.
• Excellent communication skills — you write clearly, you speak and listen well, and you craft presentations that turn complex analysis into concise recommendations for leadership and investors.
• 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, with the curiosity to understand the underlying physics, operations, tax rules, financing terms, and commercial constraints well enough to build models that reflect reality.

Desired Qualifications

• 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 that feed financial planning tools.
• Strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools that improve speed and accuracy.

Additional Requirements

• Travel to vendors and test sites as needed.
• Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs. While we expect a lot of each other, we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including flexible PTO and flexible working hours.

Compensation and Benefits

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:

• Cash compensation of $150,000 - $210,000.
• Equity in the company. We’re all owners and if we’re successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (the company pays 100% of a gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long-term financial support if you become disabled)
• 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).

Location

This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.