Vice President, Financial Planning

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power.

Responsibilities

• Lead Mainspring's enterprise-wide financial planning and analysis function, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic and operational objectives.
• Partner closely with the CFO and executive leadership team to develop long-range financial strategies that support commercial growth, manufacturing scale, and capital allocation decisions.
• Lead the company's strategic planning process through enterprise scenario modeling and financial analysis that informs executive decision-making.
• Provide financial leadership and recommendations to support Board presentations, financing activities, and other strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a strategic advisor by proactively identifying financial risks, opportunities, and key business drivers that influence company performance.
• Provide executive oversight of the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasting process, and long-range financial planning.
• Review and challenge financial assumptions, operating plans, and resource allocation decisions across all business functions.
• Lead complex financial and operational analyses that provide actionable insights to executive leadership.
• Own the development of financial content for Board of Directors materials, including forecasts, key performance indicators, and strategic analyses.
• Continuously improve forecasting accuracy, analytical methodologies, and planning processes to support a rapidly scaling organization.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to executive leaders across the organization, aligning financial priorities with business objectives.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• Support evaluation of new products, manufacturing investments, pricing strategies, partnerships, and other strategic initiatives through rigorous financial analysis.
• Build alignment across cross-functional teams by connecting strategic financial objectives with operational execution.
• Lead and develop a high-performing FP&A organization through experienced managers responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business partnering.
• Empower experienced leaders while establishing strategic priorities, coaching analytical excellence, and building organizational capabilities that scale with company growth.
• Promote collaboration across Finance and cross-functional teams to improve planning effectiveness and decision support.
• Champion continuous improvement of financial planning processes, reporting capabilities, and analytical tools.
• Drive the evolution of financial planning systems, reporting automation, and business intelligence capabilities.
• Ensure the Finance organization leverages technology and data to deliver timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required; MBA, CFA, or CPA strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance, or related disciplines, including significant leadership experience.
• Experience leading FP&A within a high-growth manufacturing, industrial technology, clean energy, or similarly complex operating environment.
• Prior experience in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or another highly analytical finance discipline is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership to influence strategic business decisions through data-driven financial analysis.
• Deep expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and business performance management.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, supply chain, capital investments, and operational finance.
• Proven experience developing executive and Board-level presentations that communicate complex financial insights with clarity.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing finance organizations through multiple levels of management.
• Exceptional analytical, communication,