Head of Finance

🏆 What You'll Achieve

• Own company financial strategy: budgeting, forecasting, runway planning, and scenario modeling.
• Maintain monthly/quarterly reporting: P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, KPIs, board materials.
• Run the close process and ensure clean financials (with external accounting support like Pilot).
• Own cash management: payments, collections, vendor contracts, expense controls, and approval workflows.
• Oversee systems and tooling: accounting, invoicing, billing, expenses, and reporting dashboards.
• Partner on headcount plan, comp modeling, equity plan inputs, payroll/benefits coordination (with providers).
• Lead finance workstreams for fundraising and diligence: dataroom readiness, metrics, cohort analysis, and narrative support.
• Produce investor/board finance updates: performance vs plan, risks, and clear asks/decisions.
• Own cap table hygiene and support financing/legal processes with counsel as needed.

📈 Requirements

• 6+ years of corporate finance experience.
• Experience working in corporate finance at a real estate, power developer or in a related industry
• Experience making strategic decisions about finance with imperfect information.
• Skilled at balancing immediate financial needs with long-term scalability.

✨ About You

• A strategic finance thinker who connects financial decisions to business impact.
• Hands-on; willing to dive into broken systems and fix and scale them.
• Excited about the future of AI, and building infrastructure that powers the energy transition.

🚀 Bonus Points

• Deep understanding of power project development economics : development cost stacks, timelines, risk, and key value drivers.
• Experience building/maintain project-level models to translate customer reality into product + GTM decisions (e.g., time-to-interconnect impact, budget risk, portfolio prioritization).
• Track market shifts that affect development finance (incentives, tax credit dynamics, cost of capital, interconnection/policy impacts) and translate into strategy.
• 1+ years of early-stage startup experience.

💰 Compensation and Benefits

• 180k-250k annual base
• Bonus
• Competitive equity compensation
• 401(k) matching
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Paid company holidays & PTO
• Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week

☀️ About Paces

🛠️ If you’re a builder who wants to actively construct a more climate positive future, join us!

🗺️ We are enabling the climate optimum use for all the world’s land and are thought leaders in the evolving data center and renewables markets.

🐶 We have a dog calendar and have dogs running around in the office.

🌞 We have world class customers and are growing!

📢 We've raised $18M+ led by Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator.