Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planetary Scale is a strategic finance partner for climate and energy-transition companies, supporting founders from seed through growth. They are seeking a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to own analytical work, build financial models, and assist in fundraising efforts for climate tech startups.

Responsibilities

• Support climate tech founders with financial modeling, analysis, research, and finance ops
• Build and maintain three-statement models, scenario analyses, and KPI dashboards that founders use to steer their companies and bring into their most important conversations
• Support fundraising across equity, venture debt, and grants — contributing to pitch materials, data rooms, diligence responses, and round structuring
• Run the financial analysis that gives founders clarity — budgeting, benchmarking, KPI tracking, and the kind of proactive digging that finds issues before they become problems
• Prepare investor and board reporting that communicates performance accurately and clearly
• Set up and oversee the systems behind the back office — bookkeeping, accounts payable, invoicing, and payroll — designing efficient processes and keeping them running cleanly
• Research sectors and business models across the climate and energy transition, developing real expertise that sharpens the advice we give

Skills

• Support climate tech founders with financial modeling, analysis, research, and finance ops
• Build and maintain three-statement models, scenario analyses, and KPI dashboards
• Support fundraising across equity, venture debt, and grants
• Run financial analysis including budgeting, benchmarking, KPI tracking
• Prepare investor and board reporting
• Set up and oversee back office systems including bookkeeping, accounts payable, invoicing, and payroll
• Research sectors and business models across the climate and energy transition
• Learn fast across unfamiliar domains
• Maintain accuracy in all work
• Take ownership by default
• Think critically before building
• Enhance the effectiveness of those around you
• Have serious analytical and modeling horsepower
• Communicate clearly under scrutiny
• Care about climate and energy transition work
• 3–6 years (MBB, IB, or comparable analytical background)
• Worked with venture-backed startups before
• Exposure to fundraising from either side of the table
• Working knowledge of finance and accounting frameworks
• Excited about building with AI to improve how we work

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Shadow client equity
• Benefits
• 401K with match
• 30 days of PTO
• Fully remote with occasional travel to client sites and to NYC for Climate Week each September

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