Senior Manager, Finance

🕒 June 10

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KoBold Metals

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • Science • Energy

KoBold Metals is a company specializing in advanced mineral exploration. By investing over $100 million annually across 60+ projects on five continents, KoBold is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and novel hardware to transform mineral exploration into a repeatable science. The company aggregates comprehensive data on the Earth's crust and utilizes proprietary AI tools, including the Machine Prospector® system, to minimize uncertainties in exploration. KoBold Metals is committed to ethical exploration practices and is backed by world-class investors dedicated to discovering and developing new battery metal resources. Their innovative approach leverages AI to build the world's largest geoscience information collection and model subsurface data statistically.

📋 Description

• Own cash forecasting including quarterly and annual spend predictions, working with leaders across the company to build bottoms-up estimates and create a clear understanding of how actual cash spend is allocated across the business (e.g., exploration, R&D, resource development, G&A, etc.) • Develop analytical models that help inform decision making and/or identify explicit or implicit cost improvement opportunities. Work closely with operations and technical teams to share these insights and implement change • Produce clear, actionable reporting that translates financial data into usable information that helps leaders manage their spend • Build and maintain a single source of truth for financial data, partnering with accounting and data teams to ensure integrity across systems • Lead the business justification process across the business and ensure that KoBold is being as efficient and effective as possible in allocating capital across its programs and teams • Develop a deep understanding of KoBold’s technical operations — how exploration programs are run, what mine development looks like, and what drives cost — and use that understanding to improve team effectiveness and challenge or inform cost assumptions • Build strong working relationships with operational leaders across the company and serve as a finance partner who understands their work • Help create the right performance metrics and create the reporting and processes required to drive accountability • Conduct detailed variance analysis and help teams understand their spend and course correct as necessary • Help with the assessment selection, and design of FP&A systems and tools—both third-party and in-house, custom-built tools—to support a rapidly growing, global business with complex operations • Drive automation and implement AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual work, improve forecast accuracy, and keeps the team lean • Build scalable processes and reporting infrastructure, fostering a culture that treats process improvement as essential work key to future success • Continue to develop a small, high-performing FP&A team, setting high standards and building capability • Communicate financial insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from field operators to the executive leadership team • Support IPO readiness efforts by building FP&A capabilities appropriate for a public company.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally including time in a capital-intensive, operationally complex business (mining, manufacturing, aerospace, energy, or similar) • Has experience managing small efficient teams in dynamic, high-growth environments with a high degree of accountability and execution quality • Brings strong cross-functional communication and ability to align finance with commercial and operational needs • Has demonstrated experience evaluating and deploying finance technology platforms, and is excited about applying AI to FP&A workflows • Is curious to learn about all aspects of our business, including travel to exploration field operations and mine development operations • Deeply engages on technical matters with technical colleagues; is uninhibited about asking probing questions of experts outside their domain • Demonstrates integrity, strong judgment, and comfort operating with urgency and precision • Brings advanced Excel financial modeling skills and direct experience working with ERP systems; SQL or Python comfort a strong plus • Strong communication with ability to build well synthesized narratives that help leaders across all disciplines better understand their work • A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision • Is a creative problem solver who works hard, holds high standards, and treats people with respect and care • Feels energized by KoBold's mission, bringing optimism that lifts the team and builds belief.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements