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Salary: USD 150,000 - 210,000 / annual
Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company developing devices that capture energy from the ocean for applications including computing and renewable fuels. The company is a public benefit corporation backed by leading venture capitalists and philanthropic investors, headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
As Strategic Finance Manager, you will build and maintain the analytical infrastructure connecting operations, accounting, strategy, and finance as the company scales from pilot systems toward large-scale production and commercial deployment. This is a hands-on strategic finance role requiring someone who can lead budgeting processes, build rigorous models from first principles, pressure-test assumptions, and translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for leadership and investors.
Key responsibilities include:
- Creating and maintaining planning tools that give leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across build, buy, finance, and deployment decisions
- Partnering with operations, engineering, manufacturing, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans, vendor quotes, headcount plans, and deployment schedules into financial forecasts
- Building corporate finance and liquidity models supporting resource planning, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, runway management, and capital allocation
- Developing financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, structured financing, tax credits, asset-level economics, and capital strategy
- Drafting presentations and data visualizations translating complex analysis into clear materials for leadership, investors, and lenders
- Supporting capital raise processes and investor relations with decision-ready analysis, including board materials, investor updates, lender materials, and diligence
- Working closely with accounting to reconcile forecasts to actuals and improve data quality
- Identifying and closing high-leverage gaps in Panthalassa's financial operating system
The role requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a creative, scrappy, collaborative environment where the best ideas regularly shape company direction.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3-6 years of experience in 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: clear writing, strong speaking and listening, ability to craft presentations that turn complex analysis into concise recommendations
- 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 curiosity to understand underlying physics, operations, tax rules, financing terms, and commercial constraints
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years investment banking analyst or associate experience, especially in infrastructure, power, industrials, technology, or structured finance
- 1+ year 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
Additional requirements: Travel to vendors and test sites as needed. Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs.
