Strata Clean Energy

Senior Director, FP&A

Join Strata Clean Energy in Durham, North Carolina as Senior Director of FP&A. Drive strategic financial planning, forecasting, and analytics to support executive leadership. Lead budgeting and long-term business planning while managing a high-performing team. Benefit from a dynamic role influencing growth in renewable energy.

Strata Clean Energy

Company Overview

Strata Clean Energy

Durham, NC, United States

2008

Approximately 200 employees (source: linkedin.com). Revenue of €450 million in FY 2024 (source: cbinsights.com).

What They Do

Strata Clean Energy is a vertically integrated renewable energy company specializing in utility-scale solar and energy storage projects (source: cbinsights.com). The company provides comprehensive services across the entire project lifecycle, including project development, engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), operations, and maintenance (O&M). This vertical integration model allows Strata to optimize performance and quality across all phases of project development and operation. While Strata's primary focus is on solar and battery storage, the company is expanding into adjacent technologies, such as green hydrogen solutions, which promise to decarbonize emission-intensive segments of the industrial economy (source: cbinsights.com).

Projects & Track Record

Strata Clean Energy has achieved significant scale across its operational portfolio, completing over 270 solar and storage projects since its inception (source: cbinsights.com). The company has been instrumental in the development and construction of 3,000 megawatts (MW) of solar energy and 3,200 megawatt hours (MWh) of utility-scale energy storage. Additionally, Strata's operations and maintenance division oversees a portfolio of 5,000 MW. Looking forward, Strata's development pipeline is substantial, including 8,000 MW of solar and 31,000 MWh of battery storage in various stages of development (source: cbinsights.com). Notable projects include the Saticoy Battery Energy Storage Facility in Oxnard, California, completed in 2020, which was among the largest battery storage facilities of its time, and the Scatter Wash Battery Storage Complex in Arizona, developed in 2023, representing one of the largest utility-scale storage projects (source: cbinsights.com).

Recent Developments

In recent years, Strata Clean Energy has continued to demonstrate its growth and financial health, with a notable $300 million funding round occurring around January 2024 (source: cbinsights.com). Additionally, the company has seen a positive increase in its Mosaic Score by 182 points in the past 30 days, indicating strong recent momentum in its business operations (source: cbinsights.com). While specific details about other major announcements or acquisitions were not provided, the funding round reflects Strata's ongoing commitment to expanding its capabilities in the renewable energy sector.

Working There

Strata Clean Energy emphasizes a culture of customer satisfaction and a commitment to safety and quality, as articulated by CEO Markus Wilhelm (source: cbinsights.com). The company operates as a family-owned business, which influences its long-term decision-making philosophy, allowing it to focus on sustainability without the pressures of public shareholders. Strata actively engages in community involvement through various initiatives, including partnerships with local organizations and volunteer events (source: cbinsights.com). The company recruits across multiple disciplines, likely spanning development, engineering, procurement, construction management, operations, maintenance, project management, finance, and capital markets roles, reflecting its vertically integrated model.


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Job Description

The Director of FP&A will serve as the strategic finance leader and primary business partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team. This role is responsible for driving enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, operational analytics, capital allocation, and long-range strategic decision-making across Strata's operating companies, including multiple service organizations and Strata's IPP and development business. This is not a traditional reporting role. The ideal candidate must proactively identify risks and opportunities, provide forward-looking guidance, challenge assumptions, and help leadership understand the trajectory of the business. The Director of FP&A must translate complex operational and financial data into actionable insights that drive profitability, liquidity, growth, and execution discipline. This position requires a highly analytical and operationally engaged finance leader who can operate at both strategic and tactical levels in a fast-paced, project-driven infrastructure business. This role will be responsible for Strata's corporate model and long-term business planning.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead the company's annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial planning processes across all operating companies.
  • Serve as a strategic finance partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team by providing forward-looking financial guidance and actionable recommendations.
  • Own enterprise-wide forecasting of the company's P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow performance, while partnering closely with the Treasury team on liquidity and financing planning.
  • Develop financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses related to project execution, pipeline conversion, labor planning, margins, and business growth.
  • Provide visibility into business performance, project profitability, backlog health, operational risks, and future financial trajectory.
  • Partner with business unit leaders across EPC, Development, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations to improve financial accountability and operational decision-making.
  • Drive forecasting accuracy and establish key performance indicators that proactively identify risks, operational bottlenecks, and opportunities across the business.
  • Improve and standardize FP&A processes, project forecasting methodologies, and cost center management across the organization.
  • Deliver concise, decision-oriented reporting to executive leadership, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders with a focus on insights, business risks, and strategic recommendations rather than historical reporting.
  • Build, develop, and lead a high-performing FP&A team focused on analytical rigor, operational partnership, accountability, and proactive business support.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Yes.

Required Skills

  • Financial Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Business Acumen
  • Comfort with Ambiguity
  • Ethical Conduct
  • Technical Capacity
  • Performance Management

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a business, financial or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • MBA or similar post-graduate degree preferred.
  • 10 or more years of experience in managing a corporate finance function in a medium- or large-size company.
  • High degree of Microsoft Excel skills. The position requires individual contributor skills as well as management and strategic acumen.
  • Project Finance or structured tax credit experience is a plus, but not required.
  • CPA is preferred, but not required.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

Work is performed in an office environment. Must be able to sit, stand, bend, twist and lift up to 20 pounds.

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About the role

June 4, 2026

Full time

Company

Strata Clean Energy

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  •  Durham, North Carolina, United States

10 or more years

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