Director of Finance

Venteon is currently seeking an experienced Senior Level Finance Leader for a newly created Director of Finance opening with a startup and rapidly growing company based in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
• 10+ of progressive financial or accounting experience
• Strong understanding of financial modeling, cost accounting and finance
• Strong work ethic, and the ability to learn quickly and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Very competitive salary, benefits, opportunity to earn an additional bonus
• Opportunity to work with a startup, rapidly scaling and well leveraged company
• High-Visibility role

• Develop integrated financial models combining glazing energy modeling, whole-building energy modeling, utility savings, HVAC capital avoidance, incentives, tax credits, accelerated depreciation, carbon value, and financing.
• Create investment analyses including ROI, IRR, NPV, payback, cash flow, and property value enhancement.
• Develop executive-quality investment proposals that support customer purchasing decisions and third-party financing.
• Build relationships with financial institutions, infrastructure investors, ESCOs, utilities, and leading accounting and advisory firms.
• Partner with engineering, sales, product marketing, and finance and accounting to translate technical building performance into investment-grade financial analyses.
• Develop standardized financial tools, proposal templates, and customer-facing investment presentations that enable the sales team to consistently communicate company's economic value proposition.
• Train and support the commercial organization on energy economics, ROI, financing structures, incentives, and investment analyses to improve customer engagement and proposal conversion rates.
• Design a streamlined project qualification model with a simple building data entry form that rapidly identifies high-value retrofit opportunities and prioritizes projects based on financial return, energy savings, and strategic fit.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and finance and accounting to continuously improve financial models, proposal content, and customer decision-support tools based on market feedback and project outcomes. Top of Form
• Partner with the company controller to build the internal capabilities to use energy savings to determine specific product sales price based on a price setting mechanism that Bottom of Form maximizes gross margin and EBIT.

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