Senior Financial Analyst

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware's advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit 

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About the Role

We're looking for a strategic, analytically minded Senior Financial Analyst to build and scale our financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function. As one of the earliest members of the finance team, you will develop forecasting models, support board-level reporting, partner with business leaders, and help drive critical decisions across the company. This is a high-visibility role with meaningful executive exposure and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve detailed operating and financial models (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow).
• Forecast bookings, revenue, and gross margin—supporting both GAAP and internal metrics.
• Model headcount, payroll, operating expenses, and scenario planning for future funding rounds.
• Support pricing, gross margins, unit economics and SaaS or subscription analysis.

Board & Investor Reporting

• Prepare board reporting packages, KPI dashboards, and monthly financial summaries.
• Work with leadership to craft financial narratives, insights, and strategic recommendations.
• Support data requests during fundraising, debt financing, and lender reporting.

Operational Analytics

• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Product.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools for pipeline, inventory, revenue, and customer metrics.
• Analyze spend trends, vendor costs, and ROI on growth initiatives.

Accounting Support (light)

• Support monthly close with reconciliations, variance analysis, and revenue/COGS insights.
• Work with accounting to improve accuracy of accruals, deferred revenue, inventory, and fixed assets.
• Help streamline systems as we scale (QuickBooks, Ramp, Rippling, ERP etc.).

Required Skills

• 3–5+ years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, or consulting.
• Strong proficiency in financial modeling (Excel) and building from a blank page.
• Experience in SaaS, subscription, hardware, or revenue-generating tech business.
• Comfortable owning complex data sets, digging through ambiguity, and building structure.
• Excellent communicator who can simplify financial concepts for non-finance teams.
• Thrive in a fast-moving, startup environment.

Bonus Skills

• Very detailed oriented, models and board reports are clean, investor-ready, and strategically sharp.
• Reliable forecasting with meaningful accuracy improvements over time.
• Leadership gets clear, actionable dashboards—not just spreadsheets.
• Teams understand their budgets and performance drivers.
• The company makes better decisions because the numbers are clear.
• SQL, Looker/Tableau, ERP implementation experience.

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply

Benefits

Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)

Paid parental leave

Alternating day off (every other Monday)

"Off the Grid", a two week per year paid break for all employees.

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training