Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Panthalassa

<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Company</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Job</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As FP&amp;A Manager, you will help build and maintain the analytical infrastructure that connects operations, accounting, strategy, and finance. Your work will support planning, budgeting, project development, manufacturing scale-up, capital strategy, and the financial decisions that shape how we grow. This is a hands-on corporate finance role for someone who can build rigorous models from first principles, pressure-test assumptions, and turn complex analysis into clear recommendations.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build and maintain corporate finance, FP&amp;A, and liquidity models that support budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, runway analysis, and capital allocation decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, structured financing, tax credits, asset-level economics, and capital strategy.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans, vendor quotes, BOMs, headcount plans, facilities assumptions, and deployment schedules into financial forecasts.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create durable planning tools that give leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across build, buy, finance, and deployment decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support budgets, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, board materials, investor updates, lender materials, and capital raise processes with clean, decision-ready analysis.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work closely with accounting to reconcile forecasts to actuals, improve data quality, and keep financial models grounded in reliable operating and accounting information.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify the highest-leverage gaps in Panthalassa’s financial operating system and build practical mechanisms to close them.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You are analytical, curious, and comfortable with ambiguity. You can build a model from a blank sheet, explain the logic behind it, and defend the conclusions under senior-level scrutiny. You are not satisfied with formatting outputs or following inherited templates. You want to understand the underlying physics, operations, tax rules, financing terms, and commercial constraints well enough to build models that reflect reality.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You communicate clearly with both finance and non-finance teams. You can sit with an operations lead, understand what is changing on the floor, and translate it into a forecast. You can sit with leadership, explain what changed, and separate the signal from the noise. You bring rigor without creating unnecessary process.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3-6 years of experience in investment banking, structured finance, private equity, private credit, strategic finance, corporate finance, or FP&amp;A in a high-growth, capital-intensive company.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Advanced Excel modeling skills, including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, scenario analysis, debt schedules, capitalization structures, and returns analysis.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building models used for real decisions, not just reporting packages.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, working capital, liquidity, and structured capital solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex analysis into concise recommendations for leadership, investors, lenders, and the board.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">High ownership, strong attention to detail, and comfort working under tight deadlines with incomplete information.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep interest in hardware, manufacturing, energy, compute infrastructure, or other physical-world businesses.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investment banking analyst or associate experience, especially in infrastructure, power, industrials, technology, or structured finance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with renewable energy tax credits, tax equity, transferability, asset-backed structures, private credit, or infrastructure financings.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience in manufacturing, hardware, clean technology, power, data centers, maritime, aerospace, defense, or other capital-intensive industries.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with ERP, procurement, accounting, PLM, MRP, MES, or other operating systems that feed financial planning tools.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools that improve speed and accuracy.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired skills and experience listed.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Additional Requirements</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role requires regular on-site presence in Portland, Oregon, where our office, lab, and shop are located.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You should be comfortable working across office, lab, shop, supplier, and future manufacturing environments, including occasional longer hours during board, financing, planning, or time-sensitive operational cycles.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired skills and experience listed.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Compensation and Benefits</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cash compensation of $150,000 - $210,000</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Flexible paid time off</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners and dependents)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA</span></li> </ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Location</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in <strong><em>Portland, Oregon</em></strong>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Go where the energy is.</strong></span></p>