Financial Operations Specialist

About Wattch

Wattch enables observability, intelligence, and control for renewable energy systems of all types and sizes. As an emerging leader in monitoring and control technology, we serve customers in the solar, battery storage, and hydroelectric industries, with over 1,700 customer power plants around the world connected to our platform. Our ultimate goal is to provide interoperability for every device in the world that produces or consumes energy.

About the role

As Wattch’s founding Financial Operations Specialist, you will own and scale the financial backbone of the company. You’ll take ownership of our day-to-day financial operations—AP/AR, forecasting, cash flow management, monthly close—but your mandate goes beyond keeping the trains running on time. You will be given broad authority to automate, redefine, and improve every aspect of our finance function with the goal of taking Wattch from zero to one.

You’ll design the systems and workflows that shape Wattch’s next phase of growth—creating scalable processes, tightening our unit economics understanding, informing strategic decisions, and establishing clear financial standards. Working directly with the GM and CEO, you’ll turn financial data into operational clarity and help guide decisions across product, operations, and business strategy.

To thrive here, you should bring both precision and ambition: capable of owning the accounting cycle end-to-end, confident working with data to uncover insights, and entrepreneurial enough to build new processes where none exist. In our fast-moving environment, ownership is high and guardrails are light, giving you the chance to create the foundation for a best-in-class finance function and deliver immediate, visible impact.

On a given day, you will be...

• Serving as the finance point of contact for executive leadership, operations, vendors, customers, and other important stakeholders
• You’ll take charge of these areas, evolving early versions into scalable systems and personally driving their day-to-day execution:
  • Our customer credit program, including accounts receivable collections and negotiating payment arrangements
  • Overseeing accounts payable and cash flow planning
  • Managing our third-party bookkeeping firm, including reviewing monthly financial statements and maintaining accurate books

From time to time, you might also be...

• Driving cost optimization initiatives and building scalable accounting processes and internal controls
• Supporting variable compensation plans, revenue recognition, and other revenue operations activities
• Coordinating significant financial and compliance events such as investor reporting, 409A valuations, tax returns, SOC audits, and insurance renewals
• Supporting people operations processes including team member onboarding and offboarding and ongoing security and compliance policies
• Managing our renewable energy certificate registration processes

You're perfect for this role if you...

• Have 3+ years of full-cycle finance experience with strong GAAP knowledge
• Are familiar with the financial strategy and revenue motion at fast-growing SaaS startups
• Are detail-oriented with high standards for completeness and accuracy
• Excel at (and enjoy) building and improving processes and managing your department independently
• Communicate financial concepts clearly to non-finance team members and work collaboratively across functions to drive overall business outcomes
• Can analyze and query financial databases to extract insights and troubleshoot issues
• Live in (or are willing to relocate to) Atlanta

Bonus points if you…

• Have served in a customer-facing role and can handle difficult conversations with prospects and customers
• Have experience with tools such as QuickBooks Online, Stripe, Brex, and Avalara
• Understand revenue operations, query languages such as SQL, or SaaS financial metrics
• Have experience managing renewable energy certificates (RECs)
• Have built accounting systems and internal controls from scratch
• Have managed corporate insurance policies or multi-state tax compliance
• Have worked in renewable energy, cleantech, or SaaS or in high-growth, startup environments
• Hold a degree in accounting, finance, or a related field

If you join Wattch, you will enjoy…

• Unlimited PTO, plus 11 paid federal holidays and office closed last week of the year
• Comprehensive group health insurance
• Incentive Stock Options (ISO)
• Office on the Eastside Beltline in Atlanta (in office 3 days per week, work from home Tuesdays and Thursdays)
• Small, highly collaborative team with direct access to founders and tons of growth opportunities

Wattch is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the unique contributions of all Wattchers create our success and we aim to offer an inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, and the communities we serve. We value empathy, clarity, and sustainability and strive to make these values present in our daily interactions as well as our hiring process. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience, we don't discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We welcome all applications.