Chief Financial Officer; CFO

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) — Hydrometallurgical Metals Refinery

Location:

United States (remote with regular site travel)

Role type:
Full-time, long-term executive leadership

Reports to:

Founder & CEO

We are a U.S.

-based hydrometallurgical metals refinery producing refined critical metals using waste lithium-ion battery materials as feedstock.

Our facilities integrate front-end battery materials processing with downstream patent-pending hydrometallurgical refining, including:

• Battery discharge and dismantling
• Shredding and physical materials separation
• Hydrometallurgical refining and purification

The individual technologies are commercially proven and mature. Our differentiation lies in their integration into a single, continuous refinery operation designed to process diversified battery scrap at commercial scale and a patent-pending hydrometallurgical refinement flow sheet. We operate as a metals refinery, not a waste services business.

We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join the executive team and own the financial integrity, capital strategy, and economic discipline of a commercial hydrometallurgical refinery business.

This is a long-term CFO role spanning final development, construction, commissioning, steady-state operations, and future facility replication. The CFO partners closely with engineering, operations, and commercial leadership to ensure the refinery is financed, built, and operated on a bankable and economically sustainable foundation.

• Co-Development of proprietary financial systems architecture related to company operations (Integrated CRM/ERP/Operations/Accounting)
• Oversight and management of construction & commissioning budgets
• Ongoing operational oversight related to financial systems architecture & management of accounting level operations
• Strategic collaboration with c-suite regarding company wide growth, expansion, and diversification goals
• Collaboration with C-Suite regarding company equities, finanical vehicles, and structures

This role is a hands-on executive position focused on owning plant-level economics and financial execution; it is not an advisory or transaction-focused role.

Own and maintain a single, first-principles financial model for the entire integrated facility, including:

• Front-end battery materials processing (discharge, dismantling, shredding, materials separation)
• Downstream hydrometallurgical refining and metals recovery

Integrate full buy-side and sell-side economics into the model, including:

• Feedstock procurement and payable structures
• Product pricing assumptions and realizations
• Working capital impacts across purchasing, inventory, and sales cycles

Tie economics directly to:

• Battery scrap feedstock composition and variability
• Front-end processing performance and yields
• Metallurgical recoveries and refining performance
• Throughput, uptime, and operating availability
• Product mix and realized metal pricing

Ensure assumptions are explicit, traceable, and defensible across the full plant.

Serve as the internal authority on plant-level, buy-side, and sell-side economics.

Lead financial oversight for:

• Construction of a commercial integrated processing and refining facility
• Commissioning and ramp-up
• Transition into steady-state operations

Manage:

• Construction cash flows and draw schedules
• CAPEX tracking, forecasting, and change management
• Operating budgets, cost control, and margin performance
• Establish financial systems and controls appropriate for a continuous metallurgical operation

Work directly with:

• Metallurgists and chemical engineers
• Battery materials processing teams
• Operations and maintenance leadership

Translate process performance into:

• OPEX and sustaining CAPEX forecasts
• Cash flow and margin analysis
• Reconcile modeled expectations with actual plant performance over time

Lead current and future capital activities, including:

• Engagment with investment bankers as needed
• Institutional equity
• Strategic partners
• Project finance or structured debt

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