Vice President of Finance

Remora is seeking a Vice President of Finance to lead the company's financial strategy, planning, and capital execution as we scale first-of-a-kind carbon capture deployments and expand our hardware manufacturing operations. In this role, you will partner closely with the CEO and Executive Team to drive rigorous FP&A, long-range modeling, capital planning, and financial discipline across the business. This position is critical to enabling sustainable growth, strong cash management, and clear financial insight in a fast-moving, capital-intensive, hardware-focused environment.

Responsibilities

Plan & Develop

• Partner with the CEO to build detailed short- and long-term financial models that support manufacturing scale-up, first-of-a-kind deployments, and multi-site expansion.
• Lead development of the annual operating plan and facilitate quarterly budget and rolling forecast reviews with a strong FP&A lens.
• Own long-range financial planning, scenario modeling, and capital allocation frameworks to guide strategic decisions.
• Establish financial objectives aligned with Remora's growth strategy, manufacturing ramp, and deployment pipeline.
• Design and continuously improve financial planning, reporting, and analysis processes to support scaling hardware production and project deployments.
• Strengthen internal controls, financial policies, and operating rigor to support growth and capital efficiency.

Execute

• Own monthly financial reporting, including P&L, cash flow forecasting, working capital analysis, and forecast vs. budget performance reviews for investors and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain highly detailed financial models tied to manufacturing throughput, unit economics, cost reduction roadmaps, and deployment schedules.
• Evaluate financial performance relative to goals and proactively surface risks related to cash burn, capital expenditures, supply chain, and production scaling.
• Lead cash flow planning and liquidity management across operating, manufacturing, and growth needs.
• Oversee coordination of month-end close in partnership with accounting, ensuring financial outputs support accurate forecasting and decision-making.

Collaborate

• Partner closely with the CEO on debt and equity financing activities, including engagement with lenders, equipment financiers, and project finance counter parties.
• Serve as a key financial interface with investors, board members, auditors, and lending institutions.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, supply chain, and leadership teams to align financial models with production realities and deployment timelines.
• Support capital strategy decisions tied to manufacturing expansion, equipment procurement, and site deployments.
• Ensure alignment across teams on financial tradeoffs, margin targets, and capital allocation priorities.

Grow

• Build scalable FP&A infrastructure, tools, and reporting systems that enable high-velocity decision-making in a capital-intensive hardware environment.
• Drive continuous improvement in cost tracking, manufacturing economics, and deployment-level financial visibility.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax requirements, and regulatory obligations in partnership with accounting leadership.
• Contribute to critical strategic decisions as a member of the Executive Team, grounding discussions in rigorous modeling and data-driven analysis.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, with the majority of career experience in FP&A and corporate financial planning roles.
• Deep expertise in financial modeling, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and capital strategy in a complex operating environment.
• Experience supporting hardware manufacturing businesses, ideally involving first-of-a-kind deployments, capital equipment, or industrial systems.
• Strong track record of building and operating detailed operating models tied to production scaling, cost structure evolution, and deployment schedules.
• Demonstrated experience working with lenders, including equipment finance, project finance, or other structures.
• Ability to move quickly and make high-quality decisions with incomplete information in a fast-growth environment.
• Exceptional strategic thinking,…