Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Rhombus Power, Inc. delivers AI-powered predictive intelligence in real time for defense and national security organizations worldwide. Our mission-built products, Ambient AI and Guardian, are transforming strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making.

Rhombus Power seeks a hands-on, ownership-minded FP&A professional to help build financial models, reporting, forecasting, and planning processes that support our next stage of growth.

Our business combines software subscriptions with customer implementation, deployment, and support across commercial and government environments. You will help leadership understand how revenue, delivery costs, hiring, and contract timing affect profitability and cash.

Please note that this is an HQ-based role with a 4 days/week onsite policy in our Palo Alto office.

What You'll Own:

Budgeting, Forecasting & Modeling

• Assist in the creation, maintenance, and execution of the annual corporate budget, partnering with department leaders on revenue, headcount, infrastructure, and operating expenses.
• Update and maintain monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts using integrated three-statement models.
• Build driver-based forecasts connecting sales pipeline, contract start dates, implementation schedules, renewals, and expansion to financial performance.
• Perform scenario analysis and financial modeling to stress-test growth assumptions.

Revenue

• Maintain clear visibility into bookings, ARR, recognized revenue, billings, and cash collections.
• Partner with Sales and customer teams to forecast renewals, expansion, churn, and pipeline conversion.
• Incorporate government contract funding, periods of performance, option-year assumptions, and invoicing milestones into forecasts.
• Distinguish funded commitments from potential contract value, and model cash and resource implications of procurement or payment delays.
• Support contract and deal reviews with pricing, margin, payment-term, and delivery-cost analysis.

Monthly Variance Analysis

• Conduct monthly actual-versus-budget and actual-versus-forecast variance analysis, explaining drivers and identifying actions for business owners.
• Review general ledger details to identify misclassifications or unexpected spending trends, partnering with Accounting to resolve discrepancies.
• Track corporate cash burn, working capital metrics, and efficiency ratios.
• Maintain workforce models covering approved positions, hiring dates, compensation, benefits, contractors, and vacancies.

Financial Reporting & Dashboarding

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reviews that explain performance, forecast changes, and emerging risks.
• Build, update, and maintain BI dashboards tracking financial and operational KPIs.
• Provide data-driven schedules, trend charts, and commentary for business review decks and support board reporting.

Systems

• Clean and structure historical operational datasets to improve forecasting precision.
• Support development projects, ROI analyses, pricing reviews, and unit economics updates.
• Identify and implement ways to automate manual data collection workflows and recurring reporting.
• Help build the FP&A function's core models, planning calendar, reporting standards, and tools.

What You Bring

• Approximately 3-5 years of relevant experience, including direct responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis, preferably in a small or midsize B2B SaaS company.
• Experience working on lean teams, with personal ownership from gathering inputs and building models through presenting findings to executives.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, experience building integrated three-statement and driver-based models, and strong accounting fundamentals.
• An understanding of SaaS revenue mechanics and metrics, including ARR, retention, bookings, revenue recognition, and gross margin.
• Experience developing BI dashboards and reconciling financial and operational datasets; SQL and workflow automation skills are a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to build planning models, reporting, or processes from scratch and translate incomplete information into documented assumptions.
• Creative problem-solving, flexibility, and sound judgment.
• Strong communication skills with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.

Helpful Additional Experience

• Exposure to government-facing software businesses, federal procurement cycles, or contract-level financial analysis.
• Experience forecasting cloud or AI infrastructure costs, deployment economics, or customer-level profitability.

Salary

• This position has a salary range of $110,000 to $140,000. Final salary will be determined based on experience and qualifications.

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, vision coverage for employee and dependents
• 401k matching program
• PTO and Holidays
• Bonus and other incentive programs
• Access to mental health program
• Access to Flexible Spending Accounts for Health Care, Dependent and Commuter

About Rhombus

Rhombus Power Inc. (Rhombus) is a startup located in the heart of Silicon Valley at Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto. We use cutting-edge cross-disciplinary approaches to solve pressing Big Data and Sensing problems in security, energy, and healthcare.

Rhombus knows that diversity is a condition for success. We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.