Planetary Technologies’ vision is to protect and restore the ocean and climate for generations to come. We do this by enhancing the ocean’s natural ability to fight climate change through carbon dioxide removal and storage. Our team combines expertise in ocean science, metallurgy and geochemistry to safely and effectively scale up ocean-based CO2 management solutions. Working collaboratively with all of our stakeholders, we develop a cost effective and sustainable set of tools aimed at protecting and restoring our oceans and climate, ultimately doing carbon dioxide removal and storage at gigatonne scale.

We are leaders, scientists, and engineers working together to collectively embody our values: respect, curiosity & creativity, accept responsibility, and win for all.

Planetary is looking to hire a full-time financial controller that will own our financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) functions including cash flow tracking, forward budgeting, and financial modeling. Our company’s FP&A systems need to be upgraded, taking into account project specific budgets, portfolio rollups, and company overheads.

Core Responsibilities

• Review, manage and approve all accounts payable and company expenses to ensure financial projections are up to date and to produce real-time (monthly) budget-to-actual reporting for management and board review
• Design and build a company-wide budgeting process that enables efficient budget forecasting, tracking, and updating, including development of project and portfolio based budgets; recommend and implement new software and/or bookkeeping tools to improve efficiency
• Develop short term and long term company forecasts to provide financial viability of projects for board review and approval
• Build, manage and maintain all long term financial business models to quickly and accurately run evolving scenarios for management, investor, and non-dilutive grant submissions, including scenario planning across numerous variables and situations
• Build, manage, and maintain a carbon credit inventory and tracking system to support credit generation, credit sales, and credit deliveries over time, including the selection of appropriate tools or software to support this effort
• Provide budgeting and financial analysis support in service to Planetary’s broader organization and teams as needed
• Increase budgeting transparency both internally and externally to encourage more distribution of power and accountability across the organization
• Maintain responsibility for investor and grantmaker financial reporting 

About You

• College Diploma or University Degree with specialization in commerce, finance, accounting or related field; CPA is a plus
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, working with a startup is considered an asset
• Have strong knowledge of accounting rules and conventions
• A self-directed and organized learner, that is obsessed with details; Is skilled in the employ of best practices for use of excel and/or other modeling tools, including model construction, scenario planning tools, and presentation/report formatting
• Have an optimistic, persistent and driven working style, pride yourself on responsiveness and are excited about contributing to collective successes
• Always looking to learn new things, curious about climate change mitigation technologies, and passionate about our ocean
• Ability to overlap the majority of your work day with the PST time zone
• You love Excel and have experience building custom budgeting sheets capable of running scenarios
• Experience with QuickBooks Online and Google Sheets is considered an asset

About Planetary

Planetary is committed to supporting and valuing the diversity of our team as well as the diversity of the clients and communities we serve. Valuing diversity means recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities - creating the context where each person can develop and bring their best self to their work and life. We are committed to employment equity and will endeavour, where feasible, to eliminate systemic barriers to advancement and/or redress the under-utilization of underrepresented groups. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all cultural and educational backgrounds as well as all genders and sexualities to apply.