Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
Houston, Texas
HR/IT/F&A/Treasury /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Catalyze is rapidly accelerating the transition to renewable energy by making it easy and profitable to integrate BESS and Solar energy resources into new and existing buildings and infrastructure. As a national renewable energy developer and independent power producer (IPP), we develop, construct, own, operate, and maintain integrated solar, battery storage, assets for commercial and industrial customers and are a top community solar company. We combine our proprietary technology, financial strength, and industry expertise to deliver standardized, yet configurable systems that meet our partners’ unique needs.
As we continue to grow and expand our solutions across the country, our team is shaping the future of renewable energy. We are looking for passionate, collaborative, innovative thinkers who want to build a better future and do work that matters.
We are seeking a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to provide timely and accurate consolidated information (financial and operating metrics, ad hoc analyses) to the CEO, CFO, and operating divisions. You will also be responsible for the consolidation of annual budgets, both operating (including income statements and balance sheets) and capital expenditures, and quarterly rolling forecasts.
You Are:
- Passionate about working within the renewable industry for a mission-driven company
- Able to establish strong professional relationships with other departments to cooperate and support each other to achieve common goals
- Skilled at generating ideas about the business's future and translating them into tangible strategies and goals
- A leader who gets the most out of their employees and manages complex and opposing points of view with ease
- Organizationally aware of the importance of process changes for all stakeholders
- A professional who can support decisions based on numbers and facts, taking various scenarios, uncertainties, and bias into account, and can judge new information on its merits and adjust conclusions based on this information
- Adept at prioritizing and managing competing expectations effectively while working on multiple projects with tight deadlines
You Will:
- Oversee consolidation of company-wide forecasts and budgets, monthly variance explanations between forecasts/budgets and actual, including summaries from Projects to various partnerships and other upper legal entities set up in Catalyze’s Org Structure
- Obtain comprehensive understanding of company’s business model(s), KPI’s, project and overhead costs drivers
- Oversee financial analyses and financial systems, establishing and implementing financial control policies and procedures to ensure validity of the company’s performance metrics and financial management reporting
- Prepare and present periodic financial statements, performance metrics and/or forecasts to the Board of Directors or senior management
- Review financials (actuals and forecast) with VP Finance & Treasurer, CFO, and CEO on a monthly basis
- Create and review slides for Board of Directors and external presentations, as requested, for analysts, potential business partners, investors, or executive leadership
- Support Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting, CFO, CEO as needed to ensure compliance with internal controls over financial reporting
- Maintain and update financial systems and other integrated applications to ensure there is “one source of truth”
- Collaborate with VP Finance & Treasurer on projects, as needed, to support Catalyze’s Board and Executives
You Bring to the Team:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred
- 10+ years of Finance and Accounting experience in varying capacities, preferably with operational finance/divisional controller experience
- Significant experience leading and directing the deliverables of Finance & Accounting teams (preferred 5+ years of leadership experience)
- Significant experience using logic, solid judgment and data to determine effective solutions and strong written and verbal communication skills to influence buy-in among stakeholder groups
- Proven ability to deliver results and ensure direct reports stay focused on priorities when managing multiple competing projects
- Ability to identify opportunities and issues, proactively act and follow through to resolve or capitalize on them
What Catalyze Brings to You:
- Opportunity to play a significant role in transforming the energy industry
- Growth, development, learning, and advancement opportunities
- A flexible environment where your voice, thoughts, and ideas are valued and heard
- Excellent benefits (company-paid and voluntary): Health / Dental / Vision / Life / AD&D / STD / LTD / AFLAC / Pet / Legal / Commuter / 401(k) with Company Match / Paid Time Off and more!
About Catalyze
Catalyze is a renewable energy developer and independent power producer (IPP) that also partners with medium-to-large commercial and industrial real estate groups and third-party renewable energy developers. We increase property net income and tenant value with renewable, resilient, smart energy infrastructure including solar, storage, electric vehicle charging, and microgrids.
We uniquely enable our real estate customers to use that increased income as a competitive advantage to expand their property portfolios. For industrial customers, we provide both energy savings and progress toward renewable energy mandates and goals. Our proprietary origination-to-operations platform supports our partners with optimal site identification and acquisition, energy load estimation, system design, project finance, and asset management.
We believe that when people feel safe and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to the team, it brings out their best and strengthens our company as a whole. This is why we’re dedicated to creating a truly inclusive workplace - one that values and promotes diversity and fosters an empowered workforce—allowing all employees, from any background or level of the company, to succeed in their jobs.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity and value the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
