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Grassroots Carbon Public Benefit LLC offers nature-based soil carbon storage solutions based on regenerative agriculture. Nature based solutions address climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security. Regenerative agriculture on grasslands promotes the use of natural and holistic ranching practices that focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare. This can result in healthier and more nutrient-dense food. By improving soil health on grasslands, regenerative agriculture can enable a diverse range of ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and habitat for wildlife. Grasslands are highly efficient at capturing and storing carbon, making them a valuable tool in the fight against climate change.
Soil carbon credits are a way to incentivize the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that promote soil health and carbon sequestration. Grassroots Carbon brings together thousands of ranchers and hundreds of carbon credit buyers, such as Nestle and Shopify, who are seeking to acquire high quality, measured and independently certified soil carbon credits. Across America’s hundreds of millions of acres of grassland, Grassroots Carbon has paid over $2 million to ranchers to date to restore soil health and to accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement.We are a team of soil scientists, ranchers, software engineers, entrepreneurs and more from a diverse array of industries, and backgrounds.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced VP Finance. The role reports to the CEO and will be a key part of the leadership team.
Requirements

• Lead Financials, Business Metrics and Goals Reviews with leadership
• Gather, review, and communicate fact-based insights into variances and trends
• Manage the fixed and variable costs for the business (headcount, infrastructure)
• Influence business decisions by effective verbal and written communication
• Manage and lead the financial planning and analysis processes, including the short- and long-range planning
• Drive understanding on the return on investment of our customer acquisition activities.
• Own the P&L for Grassroots Carbon, with specific focus on the key performance indicators such a gross margin and profitability per commercial agreements.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analyses and anecdote deep-dives that assist decision making by senior leadership
• Be a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, drive standardization, and build scalable systems to support business growth
• Influence others, insist on the highest standards, and challenge the status quo
• Serve as the finance leader working directly with Grassroots Carbon leadership and other stakeholders.
• Build and lead the Grassroots Carbon Finance team
• Have close oversight of the Grassroots Carbon operations which include the delivery of carbon credits to carbon credit buyers from the generation of soil carbon credits through the stewardship by ranchers.

Basic Qualifications

• Proven ability to build relationships across the business, including the board of directors.
• Master’s degree in finance, mathematics, accounting, or any other related field.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Proven (10+ years) relevant finance experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• The ability to self-motivate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment with competing deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in financial analysis and financial model building.
• Hands-on with ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced academic degree or professional exam (CPA, CFA or similar).
• Experience with Business Intelligence systems
• Exposure to working on two sided marketplaces, where focus on bottom line is key
• Solid statistical understanding.

Benefits
Benefits

• Educational materials and expenses (subject to management approval).
• Company-paid Life and AD&D coverage (with the option to purchase additional coverage).
• Participation in our 401(k) savings plan.
• 9 paid holidays per year as listed in our Company Handbook.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans, including a flexible spending account option.
• Company-paid Short-Term Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Open Paid Time Off Policy (subject to management approval).

About Soilworks
Soilworks Natural Capital is on a mission to power the Regenerative Agriculture Revolution. We are a private equity fund that invests in, incubates, and acquires companies to help accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement. Our principles include better and healthier food, restoring plant and animal diversity, regenerating soil to store water and carbon, and creating more profitable family farms.
Soilworks was launched by the co-founders of Scaleworks, a technology venture equity fund based in San Antonio, TX. Their passion for the regenerative movement developed while building software companies using common-sense business principles. Soilworks is our effort to bring common-sense disruption to the food system – the most important market in the world.