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.
Position Summary:
The Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis is a high-visibility corporate finance role responsible for leading Redwood’s enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, and strategic financial analysis. This role partners directly with business unit leaders and the executive team to translate operational activity into financial insight, drive the annual operating plan and re-forecast cycles, and deliver decision-ready reporting to senior leadership and the board. The position is responsible for building and maintaining the consolidated corporate financial model and for developing the FP&A infrastructure needed to support a fast-growing, multi-site manufacturing company. This role is primarily performed in an office environment, with 3–4 days per week onsite at Redwood Material’s San Francisco location.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Planning & Forecasting
- Own Redwood’s annual operating plan (AOP) process, coordinating inputs across business units, manufacturing operations, and G&A functions to produce a unified, board-ready financial plan
- Lead quarterly and monthly re-forecast cycles, maintaining rolling views of revenue, cost, headcount, and capex against plan
- Build and maintain the consolidated corporate model, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and key operating metrics
- Develop and improve long-range financial plans in support of fundraising, board reporting, and strategic planning processes
Business Partnership & Analysis
- Serve as the primary finance business partner to 2–3 business units or functional leaders, translating operational activity into financial insight and actionable recommendations
- Design and deliver monthly business reviews with clear variance analysis, bridging actuals to plan and forecast with crisp narratives for executive audiences
- Build financial frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, investment decisions, headcount plans, and resource allocation trade-offs
- Partner with Accounting to ensure a clean close process and accurate management reporting; help define what “good” looks like as reporting infrastructure matures
Reporting & Infrastructure
- Own and continuously improve the management reporting package distributed to senior leadership and the board, ensuring it is accurate, insightful, and decision-ready
- Identify opportunities to automate and scale FP&A processes; drive adoption of planning tools and best practices across the Finance team
- Develop KPI frameworks that connect financial outcomes to operational drivers, helping the business manage to leading indicators rather than lagging results
- Support ad hoc financial analyses and special projects as directed by the CFO and VP Finance
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- 4–6+ years of total experience, with a track record of increasing responsibility in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or a closely related function
- At least 2 years of foundational experience in investment banking, management consulting, or a similarly rigorous analytical training ground
- Strong corporate FP&A experience in a complex, multi-site operating company; experience at a high-growth technology, industrials, or energy company is a plus
- Exceptional financial modeling skills—able to build and maintain complex, integrated three-statement models and executive-facing reports from scratch
- Demonstrated ability to communicate financial insights clearly to non-finance audiences, including executives and business unit leaders
- Experience owning an end-to-end planning cycle (AOP, re-forecast, LRP) in an environment with meaningful operational complexity
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and building process in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
- Ability to be onsite 3–4 days per week in assigned office(s)
In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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Skills Required
- 4-6+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or closely related function
- At least 2 years of foundational experience in investment banking, management consulting, or similarly rigorous analytical training ground
- Strong corporate FP&A experience in a complex, multi-site operating company
- Exceptional financial modeling skills; build and maintain complex integrated three-statement models and executive-facing reports
- Experience owning end-to-end planning cycle (AOP, re-forecast, long-range planning) in an operationally complex environment
- Ability to translate operational activity into financial insight and deliver clear variance analysis and narratives for executives
- Experience building management reporting, KPI frameworks, and improving FP&A infrastructure and automation
- Ability to partner with Accounting to support close process and accurate management reporting
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and building process in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
- Ability to be onsite 3-4 days per week in San Francisco
- Experience at a high-growth technology, industrials, or energy company
Redwood Materials Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Redwood Materials and has not been reviewed or approved by Redwood Materials.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered okay to good overall, often competitive for engineering and corporate roles while closer to local norms in hourly operations.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options or equity are included in many offers, providing additional upside beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is viewed positively, with maternity and paternity leave standing out within the package.
Redwood Materials Insights
What We Do
Redwood is developing a fully closed-loop, domestic supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Our team manufactures critical battery components using as many recycled batteries as possible — localizing a 50,000-mile global supply battery chain on a single site.
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