Manager, FP&A - Projects & Operations

Terabase Energy is hiring a Manager, FP&A - Projects & Operations to lead forecasting, budgeting, project performance analysis, and finance partnership across its product lines. The role builds AI-enabled reporting and analytics, supports financial planning and decision-making, and improves finance processes and controls.

Responsibilities:

• Forecasting and budgeting: Build and maintain the annual budget and rolling forecasts by product line, including revenue, COGS, OPEX, and headcount
• Project-level forecasting: Partner with Project Delivery, Sales, and Procurement teams to forecast active projects on a percent-complete basis and track margin by project and contract type
• Financial project management: Analyze project performance in depth over the full project term, including margin analysis and core margin drivers. Work with Project Delivery, Sales, Accounting, and IT to improve reporting and tracking processes, ensuring the data needed for meaningful performance analytics is available
• Finance business partner: Serve as the finance business partner to internal stakeholders, providing financial insight, decision support, and analysis that helps business leaders plan, prioritize, and manage performance
• Month-end close and variance analysis: Reconcile the P&L to NetSuite, validate GL and department mappings, and prepare actual-vs-forecast and actual-vs-budget variance analysis. Separate true performance variances from accounting reclassifications and timing, and explain the underlying drivers
• Intelligent reporting and analytics: Build and publish automated reporting and analytics for stakeholders, using AI tools and direct data feeds from core systems (NetSuite, Salesforce)
• Process improvements: Define, document, and implement Finance processes end to end, including the forecast and budget cycles, month-end close, and cross-functional workflows with Project Delivery, Sales, Procurement, and Accounting. Set clear ownership, timelines, and controls, and drive adoption across teams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 7-10 years of experience in FP&A, preferably including project-based financial management (EPC, construction, or long-term contracts)
• Proven experience owning financial statements (P&L, Cash Flow)
• Advanced data modeling and dashboarding of driver-based models with structured, auditable design
• Advanced experience applying AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to financial analysis, reporting, and workflow automation
• Proven experience developing and implementing business processes
• Hands-on ERP experience (NetSuite preferred) with GL, department, and subsidiary structures
• Solid grasp of US GAAP revenue recognition, including percent-of-completion for long-term contracts
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to present findings to executives concisely
• Experience in a start-up environment
• Experience in the energy and utility industry, EPC, or large-scale construction
• Background at a growth-stage or venture-backed company, including investor or board reporting
• Experience with Salesforce, Airtable, or BI tools (Tableau, Power BI)
• Familiarity with mixed business models: hardware, software/SaaS, and services
• CPA, CFA, or MBA