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Salary: USD 120,000 - 180,000 / annual
Phoenix Tailings is a rapidly growing clean mining and metals production startup building domestic supply of critical materials. The company is developing the Freedom Facility in Rochester, New York—a commercial-scale rare earth separation facility designed to expand U.S. capacity to process and separate rare earth materials used in electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics, advanced electronics, aerospace systems, and defense applications.
As Finance Manager, you will build and maintain financial models, forecasts, and analysis to support planning, capital allocation, and operating decisions as the Rochester facility develops toward operations in 2027 and 2028. This role connects capital expenditures, operating costs, production assumptions, and cash requirements to provide clear visibility of financial performance for site and company leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain integrated financial models linking income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow to Rochester's construction and operating assumptions
• Develop project finance models that evaluate capital expenditures, operating costs, production assumptions, and investment returns as the facility develops
• Support site budgets and operating forecasts, track spending against plan, and explain material changes in costs or project assumptions
• Prepare short- and long-term cash flow forecasts and liquidity analyses to inform the timing of site spending and funding requirements
• Evaluate capital projects using discounted cash flow, net present value, and internal rate of return analyses, documenting the assumptions behind recommendations
• Run sensitivity and scenario analyses to assess the effects of changes in production, pricing, input costs, and financing structures
• Analyze operating costs and financial performance and prepare clear reports for site and company leadership to support capital and operating decisions
This is an opportunity to support the development of a new industrial facility with disciplined financial analysis and practical insight during a critical growth phase.
Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field
• Experience in financial analysis, corporate finance, project finance, or financial planning, preferably involving industrial operations or capital-intensive projects
• Demonstrated ability to build integrated three-statement financial models and evaluate investments using discounted cash flow and return analyses
• Advanced Excel skills and experience preparing budgets, operating forecasts, cash flow projections, and sensitivity analyses
• Ability to interpret production and cost assumptions, reconcile financial information, and identify the drivers of changes in forecast performance
• Clear financial reporting and communication skills, with the judgment to explain assumptions, uncertainty, and investment tradeoffs to operating and company leaders
