📍 Location: Arlington, VA (Hybrid; 4 days/week in-office)

👥 Team: Accounting & Finance

🧭 Reports to: VP of Accounting & Finance

💼 Type: Full-time (exempt)

📌 Job details

Dandelion Energy is seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented FP&A Lead to join our growing finance team. Reporting to the VP of Finance, this role will help shape how we plan, measure performance, and make decisions as we scale.

In this role, reporting directly into the VP of Accounting & Finance, you’ll work closely with Accounting and cross-functional leaders across the company to strengthen forecasting, improve financial visibility, and support strategic decision-making in a fast-moving, mission-driven environment.

This is not a “spreadsheet maintenance” role. We’re looking for someone who enjoys building scalable reporting and planning infrastructure, digging into messy data, surfacing insights quickly, and proactively elevating risks or unanswered questions before they become surprises.

🛠️ Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Own core monthly and quarterly reporting, including variance analysis, trend identification, and generating actionable insights for leadership

• Build and maintain financial models to support long-term planning, resource allocation, and investment decisions

• Support the annual budgeting and reforecasting process in partnership with department leaders

• Monitor key financial and operational KPIs to help drive accountability and business performance

• Maintain and continuously improve the company’s 13-week cash forecast to ensure clear liquidity visibility

Systems, Data Analysis & Business Insights

• Consolidate financial and operational data across multiple systems to create reliable, self-serve reporting

• Improve the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of reporting workflows as the company grows

• Partner with Accounting and business teams to ensure clean inputs and consistent metrics

• Leverage BI and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to make performance insights accessible and decision-useful

• Help identify opportunities to strengthen our financial data foundation over time (SQL, data warehouses, automation)

Communication & Reporting

• Translate financial results into clear narratives for non-financial stakeholders

• Surface anomalies, risks, and key unanswered questions early — with urgency, clarity, and proposed solutions

• Respond quickly to ad hoc analytical requests from senior leadership

• Support preparation of board and investor materials, including metrics, dashboards, and strategic analysis

🎯 We’re looking for:

• A proactive, curious mindset and a passion for continuous improvement

• Systems-minded and excited to improve how reporting and planning work at scale

• Comfortable asking questions, challenging assumptions, and escalating issues early

• Motivated by mission-driven work and the opportunity to help decarbonize home heating

• Detailed and have drive to produce accurate, insightful analysis

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic, or startup environment

• Strong analytical skills and judgment with the ability to extract insights and propose strategic solutions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

✅ Must-haves

• 4-7 years of experience in FP&A, Accounting, Investment Banking, or a related field

• Ability and willingness to work in our Arlington, VA office in a hybrid model (4 days/week; we generally WFH on Wednesdays)

• Bachelor’s degree required

🌟 Bonus points for:

• Experience with BI and data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI

• Familiarity with SQL or modern data warehousing platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or dbt

• Experience supporting board reporting, investor materials, or strategic planning processes

• Exposure to multi-system finance environments including NetSuite, Salesforce, and Ramp

🌼 About Dandelion

Dandelion Energy is transforming how homes are heated and cooled—starting from (below) the ground up. As the nation’s leading residential geothermal company, we design, install, and maintain all-in-one heating and cooling systems that are cleaner, quieter, more affordable, and up to 4× more efficient than traditional HVAC. Our focus is on large, enterprise deployments with major homebuilders, helping bring geothermal to more homes, faster.

Backed by Google Ventures (GV) and other top tech investors, our end-to-end geothermal solution is challenging the status quo in residential heating and cooling. We’re scaling strategically and intentionally to meet growing demand. Our mission is simple and bold: to make geothermal the default choice for heating and cooling in the U.S.

🌳 Why Dandelion

Dandelion Energy is at the forefront of the transition to clean, efficient home energy. Our team has delivered thousands of high-quality geothermal installations across the country, helped elevate geothermal heat pumps nationally, and played a meaningful role in advancing electrification-friendly policy at both the local and federal levels.

We’re a multidisciplinary, mission-driven team spanning hardware engineering, HVAC, drilling, solar finance, behavioral economics, and startup operations. Together, we’re building something complex, impactful, and designed to scale … work that directly shapes how homes are powered for decades to come.

At Dandelion, you’ll find a collaborative, fast-paced, and inclusive culture where curiosity, ownership, and cross-functional teamwork are core to how we operate. Our nationwide team is united by a shared commitment to sustainability and a belief that clean, affordable heating and cooling should be the standard.

We’re driving a wholesale shift in how homes are heated and cooled. Join us.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• Medical (including mental health), dental, vision, and pet insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Commuter benefits

• Generous paid sick leave, vacation, and parental leave

• Learning & development support, including on-the-job training and virtual courses

• Pet insurance