Chief Financial Officer

Mast Reforestation

Seattle, Washington, United States

Posted on: 2023-11-08

Category: climate

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Mast Reforestation is a climate tech company with a mission to make reforestation scalable. As bigger, hotter, and more frequent fires increasingly destroy forested land each year, Mast facilitates faster, more resilient forest regeneration. Mast provides vertically integrated reforestation services to get forest restoration projects up and running in weeks, not years. Services include seed collection, seedling cultivation, site preparation, seedling hand planting, aerial drone-based seeding, and ongoing site monitoring. To fund its projects and open new revenue streams for landowners, Mast sells forward-looking carbon removal credits that allow companies seeking carbon neutrality to invest in reforestation projects for 200 years or more. Mast’s investors include Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Social Capital, DBL Partners, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, and more. To learn more, visit MastReforest.com.

About Mast Reforestation (Mast):

As the leading end-to-end reforestation company in the U.S., Mast is on a mission to make reforestation scalable. As bigger and hotter fires destroy more forestland every year, Mast provides fast, resilient forest restoration for landowners impacted by devastating wildfires. As the only vertically-integrated reforestation company in the industry, Mast has removed the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done. Mast collects native, diverse seed species and manages site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring, delivering high quality projects. By assembling first-of-its-kind third party capital, Mast delivers these projects at no-cost to landowners. With trusted forestry companies Silvaseed and Cal Forest in its portfolio, Mast is the largest seed bank and reforestation container stock producer in the Western U.S. Mast is also an innovation center for the non-timber forestry supply chain, developing various biological and technical products for achieving land management goals more efficiently. To learn more, visit www.mastreforest.com and watch this video of our recent Montana project (hyperlink: https://www.mastreforest.com/reforestation)

If you’re inspired by our work, we’d encourage you to apply!

This is an opportunity to be a pioneer in the field of carbon accounting--helping landowners reforest after wildfire. The preferred candidate will be interested in leveraging their significant financial and accounting background to advance how humanity values nature by connecting the human economy to the natural economy of ecosystem services. The forests we restore are beautiful and diverse in both their form and their function. As they grow they output clean air, clean water, cool the water, and support biodiversity. They are not unlike a utility plant providing these services--but much more efficiently than our plants. We rely on these services and need to scale them. Success in this role is helping landowners receive multiple revenue streams for providing the multiple ecosystem services so that they have the on-going capital to care and protect these highly evolved natural ecosystems. You will play a leading role in building the financial systems to accomplish this.

Mast Reforestation, Silvaseed & Cal Forest offer:

- Competitive salary

- Location-based compensation

- 75% health insurance coverage for Full-Time non-seasonal employees, including Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans

- Company’s incentive stock options (ISO) for eligible employee groups

- Retirement saving plan: 401(k) and Roth 401(k)

- Commuter Benefits in eligible cities

- 6 paid holidays. Two company-wide closing weeks per year.

- Flexible PTO for Salaried employees. Generous PTO accrual for Hourly employees.

- Allowances for out-of-state employees

- Relocation support for out-of-state employees

About You

You have significant experience in a financial leadership role and have been a strategic business partner to other senior leaders.

You possess strong leadership and excellent communication skills.

You can work closely with other senior leaders to help them understand the business decisions and their implications on the company’s financial performance.

As the owner of all financial-related actions, you have the proven ability to direct and oversee a company’s financial and accounting activities.

You excel at managing large-scale projects in a complicated, multi-entity environment with transfer pricing and multiple stacks of capital.

You are a strong strategist, able to oversee the company's long-term goals and create forecasts that predict the company’s future growth, while managing the operational infrastructure to track progress.

You can own and manage the network of relationships with banking entities and lenders.

You can develop and manage the infrastructure to regularly audit processes to ensure compliance and improve outcomes.

As a manager, you are proficient in providing guidance and coaching to your direct reports and your function.

What you will be doing:

Pioneering the field of carbon accounting by leveraging multiple stacks of capital to finance reforestation projects that pay landowners for providing ecosystem services.

Directing the preparation of all financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, tax returns, and governmental agency reports.

Working with the CEO and other executive team leaders to set strategy and coordinate financial planning and establish priorities for the planning process for the parent company and two subsidiaries.

Managing reporting systems for five stacks of capital: Venture, Project Finance, Grants, Mission Driven Finance and Traditional Bank Loans.

Reviewing the company’s annual planning process and quarterly business reviews, and driving improvements to current methods and practices.

Partnering with the CEO and other leaders in raising capital for the company.

Managing the direct reports in the current Accounting and Finance functions, and future Treasury and Forecasting functions.

Comparing sales and profit projections to actual figures and budgeted expenses to actual expenses; makes or oversees any necessary adjustments to future projections and budgets.

Performing risk management by analyzing the organization’s liabilities and investments.

Overseeing modeling of the organization’s fundraising plans and controlling the capital structure.

Ensuring cash flow is appropriate for the organization’s operations.

Partnering with the CEO to manage financial reporting for the company’s board of directors and working with the board on audit and other work streams.

Managing vendor relationships including but not limited to ERP, tax, and insurance providers.

Preparing reliable current and forecasting reports.

Charting, implementing, and overseeing the company’s financial tools and technology system.

Ensuring compliance with the law and company’s policies