Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KoBold Metals is a leading independent mineral exploration company that builds AI models for mineral exploration. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Finance to grow their financial planning and analysis function, lead a small team, and develop systems that support the company's growth and future IPO readiness.
Responsibilities
- Own cash forecasting including quarterly and annual spend predictions, working with leaders across the company to build bottoms-up estimates and create a clear understanding of how actual cash spend is allocated across the business (e.g., exploration, R&D, resource development, G&A, etc.)
- Develop analytical models that help inform decision making and/or identify explicit or implicit cost improvement opportunities. Work closely with operations and technical teams to share these insights and implement change
- Produce clear, actionable reporting that translates financial data into usable information that helps leaders manage their spend
- Build and maintain a single source of truth for financial data, partnering with accounting and data teams to ensure integrity across systems
- Lead the business justification process across the business and ensure that KoBold is being as efficient and effective as possible in allocating capital across its programs and teams
- Develop a deep understanding of KoBold’s technical operations — how exploration programs are run, what mine development looks like, and what drives cost — and use that understanding to improve team effectiveness and challenge or inform cost assumptions
- Build strong working relationships with operational leaders across the company and serve as a finance partner who understands their work
- Help create the right performance metrics and create the reporting and processes required to drive accountability
- Conduct detailed variance analysis and help teams understand their spend and course correct as necessary
- Assess, select, and design of FP&A systems and tools—both third-party and in-house, custom-built tools—to support a rapidly growing, global business with complex operations
- Drive automation and implement AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual work, improve forecast accuracy, and keeps the team lean
- Build scalable processes and reporting infrastructure, fostering a culture that treats process improvement as essential work key to future success
- Continue to develop a small, high-performing FP&A team, setting high standards and building capability
- Communicate financial insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from field operators to the executive leadership team
- Support IPO readiness efforts by building FP&A capabilities appropriate for a public company
Skills
- 8+ years of FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally including time in a capital-intensive, operationally complex business (mining, manufacturing, aerospace, energy, or similar)
- Has experience managing small efficient teams in dynamic, high-growth environments with a high degree of accountability and execution quality
- Brings strong cross-functional communication and ability to align finance with commercial and operational needs
- Has demonstrated experience evaluating and deploying finance technology platforms, and is excited about applying AI to FP&A workflows
- Is curious to learn about all aspects of our business, including travel to exploration field operations and mine development operations
- Deeply engages on technical matters with technical colleagues; is uninhibited about asking probing questions of experts outside their domain
- Demonstrates integrity, strong judgment, and comfort operating with urgency and precision
- Brings advanced Excel financial modeling skills and direct experience working with ERP systems; SQL or Python comfort a strong plus
- Strong communication with ability to build well synthesized narratives that help leaders across all disciplines better understand their work
- A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
- Is a creative problem solver who works hard, holds high standards, and treats people with respect and care
- Feels energized by KoBold's mission, bringing optimism that lifts the team and builds belief
Benefits
- Equity
- 401k match
- Remote-first workplace
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