Vice President, FInance

Grassroots Carbon Public Benefit LLC offers nature-based soil carbon storage solutions based on regenerative agriculture. Nature based solutions address climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security. Regenerative agriculture on grasslands promotes the use of natural and holistic ranching practices that focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare. This can result in healthier and more nutrient-dense food. By improving soil health on grasslands, regenerative agriculture can enable a diverse range of ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and habitat for wildlife. Grasslands are highly efficient at capturing and storing carbon, making them a valuable tool in the fight against climate change.

Soil carbon credits are a way to incentivize the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that promote soil health and carbon sequestration. Grassroots Carbon brings together thousands of ranchers and hundreds of carbon credit buyers, such as Nestle and Shopify, who are seeking to acquire high quality, measured and independently certified soil carbon credits. Across America's hundreds of millions of acres of grassland, Grassroots Carbon has paid over $2 million to ranchers to date to restore soil health and to accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement.We are a team of soil scientists, ranchers, software engineers, entrepreneurs and more from a diverse array of industries, and backgrounds.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced VP Finance. The role reports to the CEO and will be a key part of the leadership team.

Requirements

• Serve as the finance leader working directly with Grassroots Carbon leadership and other stakeholders.
• Have close oversight of the Grassroots Carbon operations which include the delivery of carbon credits to carbon credit buyers from the generation of soil carbon credits through the stewardship by ranchers.
• Own the P&L for Grassroots Carbon, with specific focus on the key performance indicators such a gross margin and profitability per commercial agreements.
• Manage and lead the financial planning and analysis processes, including the short- and long-range planning
• Drive understanding on the return on investment of our customer acquisition activities.
• Manage the fixed and variable costs for the business (headcount, infrastructure)
• Build and lead the Grassroots Carbon Finance team
• Lead Financials, Business Metrics and Goals Reviews with leadership
• Gather, review, and communicate fact-based insights into variances and trends
• Provide ad-hoc financial analyses and anecdote deep-dives that assist decision making by senior leadership
• Influence business decisions by effective verbal and written communication
• Be a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, drive standardization, and build scalable systems to support business growth
• Influence others, insist on the highest standards, and challenge the status quo

Basic Qualifications

• Proven (10+ years) relevant finance experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Master's degree in finance, mathematics, accounting, or any other related field.
• Proven ability to build relationships across the business, including the board of directors.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in financial analysis and financial model building.
• Hands-on with ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• The ability to self-motivate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment with competing deadlines.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced academic degree or professional exam (CPA, CFA or similar).
• Experience with Business Intelligence systems
• Solid statistical understanding.
• Exposure to working on two sided marketplaces, where focus on bottom line is key

Benefits

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans, including a flexible spending account option.
• Open Paid Time Off Policy (subject to management approval).
• 9 paid holidays per year as listed in our Company Handbook.
• Participation in our 401(k) savings plan.
• Company-paid Life and AD&D coverage (with the option to purchase additional coverage).
• Company-paid Short-Term Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Educational materials and expenses (subject to management approval).

About Soilworks

Soilworks Natural Capital is on a mission to power the Regenerative Agriculture Revolution. We are a private equity fund that invests in, incubates, and acquires companies to help accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement. Our principles include better and healthier food, restoring plant and animal diversity, regenerating soil to store water and carbon, and creating more profitable family farms.

Soilworks was launched by the co-founders of Scaleworks, a technology venture equity fund based in San Antonio, TX. Their passion for the regenerative movement developed while building software companies using common-sense business principles. Soilworks is our effort to bring common-sense disruption to the food system - the most important market in the world.