FP&A Manager

Job Description

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager | Panthalassa

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Panthalassa, located in Portland, Oregon. Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company focused on capturing ultra-low-cost energy from oceans for computing and affordable fuels. As the company transitions from pilot systems to large-scale production and commercial deployments, the FP&A Manager will be crucial in building and maintaining the analytical infrastructure that supports financial planning, budgeting, and strategic growth decisions across operations, accounting, and strategy.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Portland, OR
• Pay: $150000–$210000 yearly
• Mission: This person builds and maintains the analytical infrastructure for financial planning, budgeting, and strategic decision-making as Panthalassa scales.
• Tech Stack: ERP, procurement, accounting, PLM, MRP, MES, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Build Models: Build and maintain corporate finance, FP&A, and liquidity models that support budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, runway analysis, and capital allocation decisions.
• Develop Financials: Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up, structured financing, tax credits, asset-level economics, and capital strategy.
• Partner with Teams: Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans and schedules into financial forecasts.
• Create Tools: Create durable planning tools that give leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across business decisions.
• Support Processes: Support budgets, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, board materials, investor updates, lender materials, and capital raise processes with clean, decision-ready analysis.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Manager. Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital structure, working capital, liquidity, and structured capital solutions.
• Experience: 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, structured finance, private equity, private credit, strategic finance, or corporate FP&A in a high-growth, capital-intensive company. Experience building models used for real decisions.
• Skills: Advanced Excel modeling, including three-statement modeling, cash forecasting, scenario analysis, debt schedules, capitalization structures, and returns analysis; clear written and verbal communication skills; high ownership, strong attention to detail, and comfort working under tight deadlines with incomplete information.
• Bonus: Investment banking analyst or associate experience, especially in infrastructure, power, industrials, technology, or structured finance; experience with renewable energy tax credits, tax equity, transferability, asset-backed structures, private credit, or infrastructure financings; experience in manufacturing, hardware, clean technology, power, data centers, maritime, aerospace, defense, or other capital-intensive industries; familiarity with ERP, procurement, accounting, PLM, MRP, MES, or other operating systems; strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools.