Senior Manager, Finance

KoBold Metals

Finance Manager at KoBold Metals leading FP&A with expertise in a capital-intensive environment. Fostering financial processes and insights in mineral exploration technology.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

FP&Afinancial modelingvariance analysiscost improvementautomationAI-enabled workflowsExcelSQLPythonERP systems

Soft Skills

cross-functional communicationteam managementproblem solvingindependenceintegrityjudgmenturgencycreativityrelationship buildingaccountability