The role involves leading corporate finance and FP&A, implementing financial planning, optimizing capital allocation, and effectively communicating financial narratives to executives and the board.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Pivot Energy is seeking a highly motivated and seasoned Vice President of Corporate Finance to serve as a cornerstone of our Finance leadership team. In this pivotal role, you will build and lead Pivot’s corporate finance and FP&A capability, so the company can translate operating activity, project economics, financing structures, and accounting results into a reliable forward-looking view of liquidity, valuation, performance, and strategic tradeoffs to support Pivot’s continued growth in the industry.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in corporate FP&A leadership, ideally from within a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP), and a passion for building cross-functional partnerships that drive operational alignment to support long-term value creation and preservation.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Strategic Financial Planning: Design and implement a robust operational and financial planning program across the organization, requiring effective collaboration with key leaders across the company. This will include maintaining forecasting, accountability, and transparency of annual planning, monthly/quarterly business reviews, budget-to-actuals, variance analysis, and KPI ownership. FP&A must proactively partner with project owners and Leadership to improve data quality and discipline in service of protecting liquidity.
- Advanced Forecasting: Establish the near-term and long-term forecasting frameworks, standards, and outputs to support critical business functions, including risk management, scenario planning, and strategic capital allocation.
- Capital Allocation & Corporate Modeling: Own the analytical foundation for capital allocation, liquidity planning, and valuation modeling to optimize the company's financial position and growth trajectory and to support various CFO/Board-level decisions.
- Executive and Board Storytelling: Use sound judgment to synthesize complex operational and financial inputs into a coherent story for the Executive Team, board, and financiers to drive decisions, unlock capital, and build external credibility with financiers.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Leadership & Team Building: Proven success in building and developing high-performing FP&A teams within a fast-growing environment.
- Financial Modeling: Expert-level experience and attention to detail with corporate financial models and scenario planning. Ability to navigate solar project financial models, including structured debt and tax equity models.
- Executive Presence: Exceptional ability to translate complex financial information clearly and concisely to senior leadership, the Board of Directors, and investors.
- Industry Expertise: 10+ years of finance experience with a proven track record specifically in renewable energy development, construction, operations, and financing.
- Collaborative Mindset: A high degree of humility and a strong desire to build cross-functional partnerships to achieve collective goals.
- Solar IPP Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of solar IPP operations, preferably within the distributed generation space.
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- ERP / Planning Systems Hands-on track record implementing or managing planning and forecasting software systems to scale financial programs i.e., ERP, EPM, Power BI, and workflow/data systems.
- AI-enabled Finance Workflows Experience in or passion for designing AI tools to reduce manual work, accelerate analysis, strengthen data integrity, and scale workflows.
- Data Architecture / Model Governance Proven capability of establishing or managing planning and forecasting software systems to scale financial programs.
Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
· Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
· Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
· Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
· Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
· Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
· Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
Pivot Energy Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Located right across the street from Union Station, our Denver HQ is at the heart of lower downtown Denver, accessible by public transit within walking distance to hotels, restaurants, the Rockies Stadium and Ball Arena.
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