Senior Finance Manager

About BoxPower

BoxPower is on a mission to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy ANYWHERE. Its ecosystem of software and hardware solutions optimizes the performance and accelerates the deployment of microgrids across BoxPower's utility, commercial, and government customers. BoxPower's projects span the full lifecycle — design, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning — making deep project financial fluency essential to how the Finance team operates. We are a dynamic, rapidly growing startup entering our 9th year of operations. 

Role Summary

The Project Finance Manager is a hands-on, execution-focused role that serves as the analytical engine of BoxPower's Finance team. This position owns the day-to-day financial operations work across BoxPower's project portfolio: gathering and validating cost data from, procurement, and construction phases; building and maintaining project models and reporting tools; and leveraging AI-assisted scripting to automate and accelerate repetitive financial workflows. The Project Finance Manager works closely with the Director of Finance, project leadership, and CFO to surface insights from complex cost and schedule data, supporting sound decision-making as BoxPower scales. 

This role is purpose-built for someone who has worked in the financial trenches of, construction, or capital project environments — someone who understands job costing, cost-to-complete, draw schedules, and change order tracking from firsthand experience, and who brings the AI enabled tools and ERP horsepower to manage it at scale. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Data Collection & Financial Reporting 

• Own the collection, consolidation, and validation of financial data from ERP systems, project management tools, and internal stakeholders 

• Build and maintain dashboards, trackers, and reports that provide real-time visibility into project costs, margins, and cash flow 

• Prepare weekly and monthly financial reporting packages for the Director of Finance and senior leadership while working alongside the accounting department. 

• Reconcile actuals vs. budget across projects and cost centers, identifying and investigating variances 

• Facilitate the departmental budget reviews 

Excel Modeling & Analysis 

• Design and maintain sophisticated Excel financial models for project economics, scenario analysis, and cost forecasting 

• Build reusable templates for FP&A workflows including budgeting, cash flow forecasting, and project pro formas 

• Automate Excel-based processes using AI based tools available 

• Analyze project cost data across the full lifecycle — procurement, construction, and commissioning — to identify cost drivers and opportunities 

AI-Assisted Workflow & Automation 

• Actively use AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) that automate data extraction, transformation, and reporting tasks 

• Identify manual, repetitive finance workflows and lead the effort to replace them with scripted or AI-assisted processes 

• Collaborate with the Director of Finance to deploy and iterate on internal AI tools that increase team output and analytical quality 

• Document automated workflows and maintain clear handoff materials for the broader finance team 

FP&A Support 

• Support the budgeting process through data gathering, model building, and departmental coordination 

• Assist with rolling financial forecasts, tracking actuals against plan and flagging risks and opportunities 

• Develop and maintain KPI tracking tied to financial and operational performance 

• Conduct ad hoc financial analysis to support strategic and operational decisions 

Accounting & ERP Operations 

• Work within the company's ERP system to extract, validate, and report on financial data across projects and cost centers 

• Coordinate with accounting on accounts payable, accounts receivable, and job costing to ensure accurate project-level financials 

• Support month-end close  

• Assist in maintaining and improving ERP data integrity and financial reporting configurations 

Project Finance & Cost Management 

• Own project-level cost tracking across the full BoxPower project lifecycle: 

• Build and maintain project pro formas, cost-to-complete analyses, and job cost reports for active and pipeline projects 

• Track budget vs. actual by project phase and cost code, flagging variances and driving resolution with project managers 

• Maintain draw schedules, milestone billing trackers, and lender reporting packages for financed projects 

• Coordinate with construction and operations teams to capture change orders, purchase order changes, and scope adjustments in financial models 

 Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Construction Management, or a related field 

• 4–10 years of experience in project finance, project accounting, FP&A, or financial operations — with at least 2 years directly supporting, construction, or capital project environments 

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with job costing, cost-to-complete tracking, and project-level budget management 

• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel — pivot tables, complex formulas, financial modeling, and multi-project cost tracking 

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Procore, Sage 300 CRE, or similar) in a construction context 

• Experience in FP&A: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and KPI reporting across projects or business units 

• Familiarity with project finance structures: draw schedules, milestone billing, lender reporting, and cost certification 

• Willingness and demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to write scripts, automate workflows, or accelerate analysis 

• Strong attention to detail and a process-improvement mindset — comfortable identifying and fixing broken workflows 

Preferred 

• Experience in renewable energy, energy storage, solar, or clean infrastructure 

• Background with EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) project finance or developer-side project accounting 

• Python or SQL experience for data extraction and reporting automation 

• CPA, CFA, or MBA (not  — demonstrable experience matters most) 

Key Competencies

• Data-driven and highly analytical — comfortable building models and conclusions from messy or incomplete data 

• Self-starter who takes ownership of work end-to-end without requiring close supervision 

• Technically curious — actively seeks out tools and approaches that make work faster and better 

• Clear communicator who can translate financial data into plain-language summaries for non-finance stakeholders 

• Collaborative and low-ego — works effectively across Finance, Operations, Engineering, and Project Management