About Us
Solar Landscape is the leading commercial and community solar developer in the United States. We partner with the world's largest real estate companies to develop, install, and operate solar projects on commercial and industrial rooftops. Through our groundbreaking community solar model, households in surrounding communities can subscribe to receive solar power at a guaranteed discount.
To date, Solar Landscape has deployed over 500 megawatts of renewable energy projects totaling over $1 billion in capital investment. Solar Landscape was named the #1 Distributed Generation developer for 2023 by New Project Media and was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s Equitable Community Solar Grand Prize.
For more about Solar Landscape, visit www.solarlandscape.com.
About The Role
The FP&A Associate will play a key role in supporting Solar Landscape’s financial planning and analysis activities, providing strategic insights and financial reporting to guide decision-making across the company. This role will support budgeting, forecasting, cash management, project financing, and performance reporting, with a focus on continuous improvement through automation and process optimization.
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Responsibilities- Budgeting/Forecasting: Manage all aspects of annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting by department and at the corporate level. Assist the Project Accounting Manager with maintaining project level budgets and forecasts. Help implement technology driven planning solutions across all aspects of the business.
- Cash Management: Support management of the internal cash position including forecasts of financing inflows and all outflows; conduct regular cash analyses to ensure optimal positioning with capital sources of varying costs/interest rates.
- Project Fundings: Support the process of receiving construction loan and tax equity fundings as projects progress from start of construction through to commercial operation.
- Management Reporting: Maintain KPIs for senior management and department heads to monitor all aspects of business performance. Collaborate with Accounting on monthly reporting.
- Process Improvement: Utilize automation to help Corporate Finance team in their goal to continually improve various processes and functions throughout company.
- Ad Hoc: Special projects as needed by the Corporate Finance team.
Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 2+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis or a related finance role.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling techniques.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and quantitative skills.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and effective communication skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in the renewable energy, environmental, or finance sectors.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics and Business Central.
- Advanced degree (MBA, MSF) or professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CFA).
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Benefits and Perks
Solar Landscape’s company culture is second to none.
Our employees combine our mission, grit and drive with a rebel’s attitude that is changing the industry:
·Located in the heart of historic Asbury Park, our state-of-the-art office space offers flexible workstations encouraging collaboration and movement.
·Employees come together to eat every day! Like in a home, our gourmet kitchen is the heart of the office. Solar Landscape has a full-time in-house chef cooking daily farm-to-table meals using locally sourced organic food.
·Also included for employees is our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, & vision insurance, flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; We provide healthy snacks, coffee, volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!
