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Director of Finance

Remote USA

About Us

At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we’re creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them.  Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions—modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today’s energy demand. At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale. 

Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in. While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we’re applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance.  

If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we’d love to learn more about you. Come build what the future will run on.

Steward our planet: We build for tomorrow, ensuring every bolt we tighten and every hand we lend leaves our environment stronger than we found it.

Lead with Love: We champion the success of our people, partners, and planet, nurturing excellence through camaraderie and rigor.

Explore the Uncharted: We embrace the unknown with curiosity, using courage and discipline to transform uncertainty into opportunity.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Director of Finance to lead the company’s FP&A, forecasting, and financial modeling capabilities as we scale.  Reporting to the VP of Finance, you’ll develop, own, and manage operating models, cash and liquidity forecasts, and scenario analyses that inform executive, board, and investor decision-making. 

You’ll operate as a trusted thought partner to the VP of Finance and cross-functional leaders, translating complex financial dynamics into clear, decision-ready insights.  This role requires strong judgment, comfort with imperfect data, and a bias towards rigor and transparency, ensuring leadership has a credible, current view of the company’s financial position and trade-offs across growth, capital deployment, and execution. 

The role is based out of our El Segundo, CA office, but we are open to remote.  Travel up to 20% to HQ, if remote. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

FP&A and Financial Modeling: 

  • Own Arbor’s FP&A and core financial models including three-statement corporate models, long-range operating plans, monthly and quarterly forecasts, and cash burn, runway, and liquidity analysis. 
  • Build and maintain 13-week cash flow models alongside longer-range cash and liquidity forecasts. 
  • Develop scenario and sensitivity analysis to support decisions related to capital raises, financing strategy, hiring pace and organizational scale, FOAK project deployment, and manufacturing and supply chain scale up. 
  • Serve as the source of trust for financial assumptions, key drivers, risks, and trade-offs across the business. 

Strategic and Capital Support: 

  • Partner closely with the VP of Finance on fundraising diligence and investor materials, financial content for board decks and executive updates, and capital structure and financing scenarios. 
  • Support project level and commercial financial analysis that include unit economics and cost curves, as well as margin, pricing, and sensitivity analyses. 
  • Translate complex financial outcomes into clear, concise insights for executives, the board, and non-finance stakeholders. 

Operating Rhythm and Performance Management 

  • Own the financial operating cadence including monthly forecast updates and re-forecasts, variance analysis versus plan, and budget tracking and performance reviews. 
  • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide real-time visibility into cash burn and runway, headcount and labor costs, CapEx and major cost drivers. 
  • Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Commercial, and Operations to ensure financial plans reflect operational reality. 

Systems, Tools, and Analytical Infrastructure 

  • Own the financial modeling environment (Excel-first, systems-enabled). 
  • Partner with the VP of Finance to implement and scale FP&A tools, and ensure clean, reliable data flows between QBO, planning tools, and operational systems. 
  • Establish modeling standards, documentation, and quality controls to ensure models are auditable, defensible, and scalable.   

REQUIREMENTS 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field, and/or relevant experience. 
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in analytical finance roles (investment banking, private equity, infrastructure or project finance, strategic finance or FP&A). 
  • Experience working in (or with) venture-backed, growth-stage companies and capital-intensive technology, energy, infrastructure, or industrial business environment. 
  • Exceptional financial modeling skills including three-statement models, cash flow, liquidity, and runway analysis, scenario and sensitivity analysis. 
  • Deep experience supporting decision-making in capital-intensive businesses with long development timelines, uncertainty, and incomplete data. 
  • Expert proficiency in Excel, with comfort building and maintaining complex models. 
  • Strong business judgement and ability to act as a source of truth for financial assumptions, drivers, and trade-offs. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

  • MBA and/or CPA 
  • Experience working in or with venture-backed or growth-stage companies 
  • Prior exposure to fundraising processes and investor diligence as well as Board-level financial reporting and materials 

Benefits & Compensation

  • Stock options
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (Arbor covers 90% for employees)
  • Basic life insurance fully covered
  • Health savings account (HSA) with matching
  • Flexible savings account (FSA)
  • Unlimited PTO  
  • 12+ company holidays, including Earth Day!  
  • 401(k)
  • Commuter benefits
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • And more!

Base Pay: $160,000 - $190,000 USD/year. The salary is subject to the applicant's skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Our Commitment

Arbor Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Solving global energy challenges requires a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we serve.

Our hiring process is designed to be accessible, fair, and focused on the work that matters most for this role. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process and employment—please let us know if you need one.

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