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The Director of FP&A will serve as the strategic finance leader and primary business partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team. This role is responsible for driving enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, operational analytics, capital allocation, and long-range strategic decision-making across Strata’s operating companies, including multiple service organizations and Strata’s IPP and development business. This is not a traditional reporting role. The ideal candidate must proactively identify risks and opportunities, provide forward-looking guidance, challenge assumptions, and help leadership understand the trajectory of the business. The Director of FP&A must translate complex operational and financial data into actionable insights that drive profitability, liquidity, growth, and execution discipline. This position requires a highly analytical and operationally engaged finance leader who can operate at both strategic and tactical levels in a fast-paced, project-driven infrastructure business. This role will be responsible for Strata’s corporate model and long-term business planning.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the company’s annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial planning processes across all operating companies.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team by providing forward-looking financial guidance and actionable recommendations.
• Own enterprise-wide forecasting of the company’s P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow performance, while partnering closely with the Treasury team on liquidity and financing planning.
• Develop financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses related to project execution, pipeline conversion, labor planning, margins, and business growth.
• Provide visibility into business performance, project profitability, backlog health, operational risks, and future financial trajectory.
• Partner with business unit leaders across EPC, Development, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations to improve financial accountability and operational decision-making.
• Drive forecasting accuracy and establish key performance indicators that proactively identify risks, operational bottlenecks, and opportunities across the business.
• Improve and standardize FP&A processes, project forecasting methodologies, and cost center management across the organization.
• Deliver concise, decision-oriented reporting to executive leadership, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders with a focus on insights, business risks, and strategic recommendations rather than historical reporting.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing FP&A team focused on analytical rigor, operational partnership, accountability, and proactive business support.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Yes.

Required Skills:

• Financial Management.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Business Acumen.
• Comfort with Ambiguity.
• Ethical Conduct.
• Technical Capacity.
• Performance Management.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business, financial or related field or equivalent work experience.
• MBA or similar post-graduate degree preferred.
• 10 or more years of experience in managing a corporate finance function in a medium- or large-size company.
• High degree of Microsoft Excel skills. The position requires individual contributor skills as well as management and strategic acumen.
• Project Finance or structured tax credit experience is a plus, but not required.
• CPA is preferred, but not required.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

Work is performed in an office environment. Must be able to sit, stand, bend, twist and lift up to 20 pounds.

About Us
Strata Clean Energy is a leading developer, EPC, and service provider for utility-scale solar and storage systems in the United States. We control and self-perform all processes from our nationwide solar and storage developments, to construction, O&M, and Asset Management.

Our employees are empowered to drive our business in a collaborative, creative, and passion-driven environment that fosters long-term professional growth. There is a lot to learn at Strata, but we’re here to help you give your best and have a good time doing it.

At Strata, you’re part of something big. We’re leading the industry in sustainable energy careers. We are driving innovation to make a difference for our customers, our employees, and our planet. Join us in powering the future.

Strata Solar is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Strata Solar is an equal employment and affirmative action employer whereby we do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other status or characteristic protected under applicable law.