About Planetary ScalePlanetary Scale is a boutique strategic finance partner for early-stage climate tech startups. We serve as fractional CFOs and finance teams for venture-backed founders tackling some of the most important challenges of our time. Our clients are backed by leading investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Fifth Wall, and Y Combinator.We combine hands-on finance operations with strategic finance and advisory support — helping climate founders manage capital, scale efficiently, and make better, faster decisions.The RoleWe’re hiring a Head of Finance Operations to lead and elevate our FP&amp;A and accounting work. This is a true player-coach role: you’ll set the standard for excellence across our client portfolio, oversee and mentor team members, and directly own critical deliverables. Some days you’ll be reviewing financial models and coaching others; other days you’ll be in QuickBooks, updating a forecast, or preparing a board-ready report yourself.As our client base grows, you’ll also help shape and scale the finance operations team — identifying capability gaps, refining the structure, and playing a key role in hiring and onboarding new team members to meet expanding demand.This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a mix of Big Four accounting and startup finance experience who is ready for a leadership role with broad scope and exposure to a variety of interesting frontier technology companies and business models.What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead FP&amp;A &amp; Accounting Delivery: Define and maintain standards, templates, and processes across engagements to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency</li><li>Oversee Back-Office Finance Operations: Manage bookkeeping, AP, AR and payroll processes across our client portfolio, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance</li><li>Client Engagement: Support onboarding of new clients, lead planning &amp; budgeting cycles, contribute to major deliverables, and parachute in on high-stakes problem-solving</li><li>Player-Coach Leadership: Manage and mentor 3+ finance team members, raising the bar on quality and output while taking on parts of the work yourself</li><li>Quality Control: Review financial models, reports, and accounting work before they go to clients, board members and investors</li><li>Operational Excellence: Improve workflows, templates, and tooling to increase efficiency and excellence across the firm</li><li>Codify Best Practices: Document and share learnings from across our client base, making PSA the repository of early-stage finance best practices</li><li>Hire for Scale: Anticipate the needs of a growing client base, identify when and where new roles are required, and help recruit and onboard new hires to expand the team</li><li>Roll Up Your Sleeves: Take direct ownership of key deliverables — from monthly close to updating financial models to drafting client-ready reporting packages</li></ul>What We’re Looking For<ul><li>6–10 years of progressive experience in finance/accounting, ideally Big Four + startup finance.</li><li>Solid foundation in both accounting (GAAP, accounting schedules, close &amp; reporting) and FP&amp;A (budgeting, forecasting, modeling &amp; analysis). Hands-on experience is most important; professional certifications such as CPA or CMA are a strong plus.</li><li>Fluency in the modern finance stack (QBO, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Bill.com">Bill.com</a>, Brex, Carta, Rippling, etc.).</li><li>Strong analytical chops and comfort building &amp; maintaining financial models.</li><li>Elite-level attention to detail and ability to error-check own and others’ work.</li><li>Experience managing junior team members with a “player-coach” mentality.</li><li>Excited about working with multiple early-stage, venture-backed startups.</li><li>Passionate about climate tech and the startup ecosystem.</li></ul>Compensation<ul><li>Base salary: $130,000-$150,000 depending on experience</li><li>Bonus: 20% performance-based target</li><li>Total target cash compensation: ~$156,000-$180,000</li><li>Equity: Participation in PSA’s client equity program</li></ul>Why Join Us?<ul><li>Mission-driven work at the intersection of startups, finance, and climate.</li><li>High variety — work with multiple venture-backed founders across verticals and business models.</li><li>Growth opportunity — step up from a finance manager role into a leadership role with client exposure and responsibility.</li><li>Be instrumental in building out the next phase of our finance team as client responsibilities grow.</li><li>Collaborative, remote-first team of former operators, consultants, and investors.</li></ul>**Important note: Next StepsPlease submit your resume and answers to intake questions (max 1–2 paragraphs each) via the Google Form below: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://forms.gle/eZk5KSh43S55NmM3A">https://forms.gle/eZk5KSh43S55NmM3A</a>Thank you!

Planetary Scale is a boutique advisory firm that partners with top-tier, venture-backed climate entrepreneurs to help them build and scale world-class companies with potential for massive planetary impact.&nbsp;

Head of Finance Operations (FP&A & Accounting)

About Planetary ScalePlanetary Scale is a boutique strategic finance partner for early-stage climate tech startups. We serve as fractional CFOs and finance teams for venture-backed founders tackling some of the most important challenges of our time. Our clients are backed by leading investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Fifth Wall, and Y Combinator.We combine hands-on finance operations with strategic finance and advisory support — helping climate founders manage capital, scale efficiently, and make better, faster decisions.The RoleWe’re hiring a Head of Finance Operations to lead and elevate our FP&amp;A and accounting work. This is a true player-coach role: you’ll set the standard for excellence across our client portfolio, oversee and mentor team members, and directly own critical deliverables. Some days you’ll be reviewing financial models and coaching others; other days you’ll be in QuickBooks, updating a forecast, or preparing a board-ready report yourself.As our client base grows, you’ll also help shape and scale the finance operations team — identifying capability gaps, refining the structure, and playing a key role in hiring and onboarding new team members to meet expanding demand.This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a mix of Big Four accounting and startup finance experience who is ready for a leadership role with broad scope and exposure to a variety of interesting frontier technology companies and business models.What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead FP&amp;A &amp; Accounting Delivery: Define and maintain standards, templates, and processes across engagements to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency</li><li>Oversee Back-Office Finance Operations: Manage bookkeeping, AP, AR and payroll processes across our client portfolio, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance</li><li>Client Engagement: Support onboarding of new clients, lead planning &amp; budgeting cycles, contribute to major deliverables, and parachute in on high-stakes problem-solving</li><li>Player-Coach Leadership: Manage and mentor 3+ finance team members, raising the bar on quality and output while taking on parts of the work yourself</li><li>Quality Control: Review financial models, reports, and accounting work before they go to clients, board members and investors</li><li>Operational Excellence: Improve workflows, templates, and tooling to increase efficiency and excellence across the firm</li><li>Codify Best Practices: Document and share learnings from across our client base, making PSA the repository of early-stage finance best practices</li><li>Hire for Scale: Anticipate the needs of a growing client base, identify when and where new roles are required, and help recruit and onboard new hires to expand the team</li><li>Roll Up Your Sleeves: Take direct ownership of key deliverables — from monthly close to updating financial models to drafting client-ready reporting packages</li></ul>What We’re Looking For<ul><li>6–10 years of progressive experience in finance/accounting, ideally Big Four + startup finance.</li><li>Solid foundation in both accounting (GAAP, accounting schedules, close &amp; reporting) and FP&amp;A (budgeting, forecasting, modeling &amp; analysis). Hands-on experience is most important; professional certifications such as CPA or CMA are a strong plus.</li><li>Fluency in the modern finance stack (QBO, <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Bill.com">Bill.com</a>, Brex, Carta, Rippling, etc.).</li><li>Strong analytical chops and comfort building &amp; maintaining financial models.</li><li>Elite-level attention to detail and ability to error-check own and others’ work.</li><li>Experience managing junior team members with a “player-coach” mentality.</li><li>Excited about working with multiple early-stage, venture-backed startups.</li><li>Passionate about climate tech and the startup ecosystem.</li></ul>Compensation<ul><li>Base salary: $130,000-$150,000 depending on experience</li><li>Bonus: 20% performance-based target</li><li>Total target cash compensation: ~$156,000-$180,000</li><li>Equity: Participation in PSA’s client equity program</li></ul>Why Join Us?<ul><li>Mission-driven work at the intersection of startups, finance, and climate.</li><li>High variety — work with multiple venture-backed founders across verticals and business models.</li><li>Growth opportunity — step up from a finance manager role into a leadership role with client exposure and responsibility.</li><li>Be instrumental in building out the next phase of our finance team as client responsibilities grow.</li><li>Collaborative, remote-first team of former operators, consultants, and investors.</li></ul>**Important note: Next StepsPlease submit your resume and answers to intake questions (max 1–2 paragraphs each) via the Google Form below: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://forms.gle/eZk5KSh43S55NmM3A">https://forms.gle/eZk5KSh43S55NmM3A</a>Thank you!

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