Manager of Strategic Finance & Capital Markets, Pachama
$94.5-150k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI-powered marketplace for carbon credits
Open for applications
AI-powered marketplace for carbon credits
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$94.5-150k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Pachama's mission is to unlock the full potential of natural systems to address climate change and protect life on Earth.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8 years of related experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or corporate finance / FP&A at a high-growth startup
- Exceptional proficiency in financial modeling, and an ability to distill complex information into key outputs like spreadsheets and presentations
- Past exposure to investment and commercial deal processes, including pipeline management, deal structuring, and portfolio management. Exposure to project financing is a plus
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with business partners and an ability to present to both executives and investors
- A thoughtful work style that can think about hard problems from first principles
- Absolute passion for our mission and a belief that we can make an impact to restore nature and remove carbon
What the job involves
- Pachama is seeking a strategic operator with a strong FP&A foundation to drive decisions and investor engagement at both the corporate and project level
- As a Strategic Finance professional, you will own Pachama’s corporate model and lead a thoughtful data-driven process for corporate planning and business model evolution
- You will apply this same muscle to build out more robust Capital Markets and Investor Relations functions. This is an individual contributor role with a high degree of cross-functional collaboration and influence
- Build and maintain Pachama's corporate model, and own long-term forecasting
- Drive annual planning, quarterly BvA processes, and monthly finance reviews
- Define, evaluate and drive execution of new business models and pricing structures
- Support fundraising, board meetings, and investor relations with Pachama's venture capital investors, debt providers, and project investors
- Articulate and help negotiate capital strategies at the project level to support global nature restoration, pulling on diverse sources of equity, debt, concessional and grant capital
- Build out more robust processes, tools and investment policies to accelerate project investments
- Manage day-to-day capital operations, tracking the health of our project portfolio, influencing across cross-functional collaboration to address risks and growth opportunities, and providing timely reporting to our investors and fund partners
- Work at the leading edge of climate finance, pioneering a new capital stack and first-of-a-kind (FOAK) structures to scale-up investment in nature through the carbon markets
- Have direct influence on strategic decisions across the organization and executive level engagement
- Take our nascent capital markets function to the next level with operational rigor
Our take
Carbon offset credits are fast becoming a popular way for businesses to lower their environmental impact, but a lack of reliable data for how these offsets really impact the world has undermined the credibility of the multi-million dollar offset market.
Pachama is looking to address the credibility crisis for reforestation and nature rebuilding offsets. Through a combination of machine learning with satellite and LiDAR imaging, the company supplies an independent, detailed method of carbon offset verification - ensuring businesses are investing in high-quality credits and reducing the chances of greenwashing.
With carbon emissions the hot topic of the day, it is no surprise that Pachama is not alone in the market. UK startup Sylvera is also making substantial headway in improving credibility in the voluntary carbon market for reforestation through remarkably similar methods, whilst Toucan Protocol is leveraging the trustless blockchain network to tackle the issue.
This competition is unlikely to prove a major problem though, as the market for offsetting solutions is expansive and growing. Pachama already boasts clients such as Shopify, Microsoft, and SoftBank, as well as a partnership with Latin American ecommerce giant MercadoLibre - which has invested a total $23.7 million in projects to protect biodiversity in Latin America.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$9m
SERIES B
May 2022
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.3m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Flexible PTO and all company holidays
- Health Insurance
- Dental & Vision Coverage
- Home Office Stipend
- Learning & Development Stipend
Company values
- PURPOSE: We are driven by our purpose and mission
- INTEGRITY: We are ethical, trustworthy, and congruent
- EXCELLENCE: We craft and operate with deep care for the quality of our work
- TENACITY: We are a force of nature: hungry, relentless, unstoppable
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Tomas Aftalion
(Head of X)Previously a data scientist with GranData, who moved on to work as a machine learning engineer first at MoneyLion, then at Branch International.
Diego Saez Gil
(CEO)Originally a PwC associate, who moved on to co-found WeHostels, then serve as StudentUniverse's VP of mobile. Subsequently co-founded and served as CEO at Bluesmart.
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