Finance Associate, Corporate

Position: Staff Finance Associate, Corporate
About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling - keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we're delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Staff Finance Associate, Corporate

Redwood Materials is currently seeking a Staff Finance Associate to join our FP&A team. Our finance function combines rigorous financial planning and analysis with direct strategic decision support for executive leadership and the board.

The right candidate is a senior individual contributor who operates independently, manages complex modeling and reporting work streams end-to-end, and produces outputs that reach the most senior levels of the organization.

Responsibilities will include:

Consolidation & Financial Reporting

• Own the monthly consolidated financial outlook, integrating operational forecasts, corporate assumptions, and key risk factors into a unified view for leadership.
• Lead monthly close reporting cycles, including detailed variance analysis with clear narrative on drivers and implications.
• Develop and maintain management reporting packages distributed to the executive team and board of directors.
• Continuously improve the accuracy, timeliness, and clarity of consolidated financial reporting processes.

Long-Range Modeling & Scenario Planning

• Support maintenance and refresh of the long-range financial model, incorporating updated operating assumptions, strategic initiatives, and market conditions on a quarterly basis.
• Build and run scenario analyses, sensitivities, and stress tests to support capital allocation and investment decisions.
• Develop analytical frameworks to evaluate strategic alternatives, new business opportunities, and trade-offs across the corporate portfolio.
• Partner with senior finance leadership to translate strategic priorities into quantified financial projections.

Cash Flow Management & Planning

• Support consolidated cash flow forecasting by integrating actuals, purchase order activity, payment terms, and operational inputs into a reliable short- and long-range liquidity view.
• Drive working capital analysis and support initiatives to optimize receivables, payables, and inventory dynamics.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure cash-relevant assumptions are accurate and consistently reflected across models.

Actuals Tracking & Financial Controls

• Oversee accurate classification and reconciliation of financial actuals across revenue, cost, and investment categories.
• Conduct comprehensive monthly review and analysis of spend actuals, with variance commentary relative to plan and forecast.
• Identify and drive improvements in financial systems and tools to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency.

Board & Investor Communications

• Support preparation of board of directors financial materials, ensuring content is accurate, well-structured, and delivered on time.
• Support development of quarterly investor communications that clearly convey operational and financial performance and strategic progress.
• Translate complex financial data into concise, executive-ready narratives for board and investor audiences.

Ad Hoc Analysis & Strategic Support

• Provide deep-dive analysis on high-impact financial and corporate decisions, including capital structure, liquidity, and organizational growth.
• Scope and structure ambiguous problems independently, delivering well-reasoned recommendations under tight timelines.
• Evaluate and recommend tools or process improvements that enhance the efficiency and quality of FP&A outputs.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of increasingly complex experience in financial planning, analysis, and corporate-level modeling.
• Demonstrated ability to execute complex modeling and reporting work streams with a high degree of independence and strong attention to detail.
• Strong background in consolidation, cash flow forecasting, and long-range financial modeling.
• Experience preparing materials for board of directors or C-suite audiences.
• Advanced Excel skills; able to build, adapt, and audit…