Everett, United States

About Helion

We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.

Since Helion's founding in 2013, we have raised over $600 million from investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group to propel us forward. Our last prototype, Trenta, completed 10,000 high-power pulses and reached plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (9 keV).

Now we are working toward Polaris, which will be the first machine to demonstrate electricity from fusion, making this a great time to join Helion! Bring your skills, experiences, and determination to make a difference in the world. Together, we can make a future with unlimited clean electricity from fusion a reality. 

What You Will Be Doing:

As Helion’s Senior Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in developing financial models, organization-wide financial management mechanisms, actionable and impactful reports and analyses, budgeting tools, and strategic insights. This role reports directly to our CFO at our headquarters in Everett, WA.

You Will:

Collaborate with Executives: Partner with our CFO and Finance Director to craft clear financial reports and commentary tailored for our leadership team and facilitate cross-functional alignment across organization leaders. Create presentations that communicate actionable insights that drive growth and operational efficiency
Lead Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop financial models, forecasts, and budgets to support business planning and decisions. Collaborate across departments to gather data used to evaluate our processes and implement best practices and improvements for company-wide, long-term planning. Ensure models reflect business conditions and assumptions and analyze Helion’s financial performance against budgets and forecasts to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement
Create Strategic Reporting: Create monthly and quarterly reporting packages to support informed decision-making for the business. Develop insightful and actionable financial reporting that includes dashboards, metrics, presentations, and commentary to Helion leadership

Required Skills:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field or equivalent experience
8+ years of industry experience in a finance role
2+ years of experience in investment banking, Consulting, or Tech
2+ years of experience with in-house FP&A at a scaling startup, or publicly listed, high-growth company
Experience collaborating with and presenting to high-level stakeholders including executives and investors

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Compensation and Benefits

At Helion, we are committed to fostering a fair and equitable environment in every aspect of our operations, including compensation. We ensure all our roles are competitively benchmarked and our total compensation package includes a base salary, comprehensive benefits, and equity grants, giving you a true stake in Helion's success. Final compensation is determined through a holistic evaluation of your experience, qualifications, and our commitment to maintaining internal equity, ensuring fairness and transparency across our teams.

This is an exempt salaried role.

Annual Base Pay

$145,000—$200,000 USD

Benefits

Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:

Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
13 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
Annual wellness stipend

NOTE: Underrepresented people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job's requirements. We believe in hiring people, not checklists, and encourage you to apply even if you do not check all of the boxes. If this job isn't the one, we have many other openings that may be a fit.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. If we reach out to you to begin an interview process, we will also ask if you require any reasonable accommodation at that time.

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