Strategic Finance Analyst, Gecko Robotics
Engineering
$170-190k
+ Equity
Physical data handler for critical infrastructure inspections
Job no longer available
Physical data handler for critical infrastructure inspections
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$170-190k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Gecko Robotics' mission is to protect and maintain civilization's most critical infrastructure, through machines and platforms.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4+ years of FP&A, private equity, or banking experience
- Strong Excel modeling skills and demonstrated ability to present complex analyses and data, 1-2 years of training in blue chip investment banking or private equity preferred
- Demonstrated experience using data and analysis to drive business decisions in senior management
- Experience at high-growth technology startup or similar company
- NetSuite Planning & Budgeting software experience (nice to have)
- Experience analyzing large data sets via SQL (nice to have)
- Experience with ancillary systems like Navan, Salesforce, Rippling, Tipalti (or similar/equivalent systems)(nice to have)
What the job involves
- The Strategic Finance Analyst is the primary resource for financial analysis within all Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering & Product teams
- This person will be the main point of contact for all things forecasting and budget variance analysis
- This role is highly analytical and cross-functional, using information from across the organization to assemble dynamic forecasts as well as providing decision support to various functions across the organization
- They will also be a voice of truth across the organization by leveraging data analysis and supporting other analytical departmental efforts
- Create and maintain financial models for engineering R&D spend and project profitability
- Work with Robotics & Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering & Product to maintain a 12-month rolling forecast and present monthly and quarterly financial reports
- Partner with Accounting to set up better department budgets & establish a feedback loop with stakeholders
- Translate monthly financial information into actionable insights for departmental leaders to create financial efficiency and align spend with the company’s strategic plan
- Provide cross-functional analytics support. Examples include pricing analysis for Sales and R&D headcount allocation analysis for Robotics & Software Engineering
- Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analyses to assess the financial impact of potential business decisions by project
- Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecasts
- Driving financial planning activities by developing financial models, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and reporting. Be the go-to person for senior management's questions and concerns regarding this data
- Build out KPI dashboards for various stakeholders and management to enable timely data-driven decisions
- Monitor and analyze operating costs from multiple data sources (travel platforms, payroll systems, ERP system) and expenditures to identify areas for financial efficiency improvements
- Perform detailed analysis on variances from budget on a monthly basis and communicate root cause with departmental and executive leadership
- Collaborate with accounting to validate underlying data and establish operational procedures that allow for high-quality financial information
- Guiding financial decisions by creating, monitoring, and encouraging adherence to policies and procedures to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines
- Implementing operational best practices, overseeing the control systems, transaction-processing operations, and policies and procedures
- Identifying areas for process and procedure improvements, both within the accounting department and cross-departmentally, with a focus on better utilization of technology to drive those improvements
Our take
The critical services of energy, government, and other essential sectors depend on reliable infrastructure, and this is ensured through regular inspections. However, collecting the physical data required for infrastructural inspection is impossible without a variety of specialized equipment, and analyzing the produced data is a highly time-consuming process.
Gecko Robotics provides physical data handling for critical infrastructure inspections, leveraging robot-enabled ultrasonics and cloud-based data processing to serve power, oil and gas, pulp and paper, chemical, and government sectors. The company achieves this by pairing human NDT II/III inspectors with data capturing robots, facilitating the deployment of various advanced inspection techniques to meet any regulatory standards.
Whilst the use of robotic automation for infrastructural inspection is nothing new, Gecko Robotics stands out by offering its Toka robotics series, devices that are sufficiently flexible to collect data in many infrastructural scenarios. The company claims that this technology facilitates the collection of 1000 times more information than existing solutions at 10 times the speed.
Since receiving $73 million in Series C funding, Gecko has expanded its mission to "protect today's critical infrastructure and give shape to tomorrow's", taking on lucrative contracts with the US Navy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2025
$125m
SERIES D
Dec 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $345.5m
Company benefits
- On-site Cafe
- Generous PTO
- On-site Gym
- Professional Development Funds
- Paid Parental Leave
- 100% company paid disability plans & life insurance policy
- 100% company paid option Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401 (k) with company match
Company HQ
Allegheny Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Jake Loosararian
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Systems Engineer for RoviSys from 2013 to 2014.
Troy Demmer
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Financial Advisor in Strategic Planning for UPMC from 2010 to 2015.
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