Indigo Ag transforms on-farm regenerative agricultural practices into durable new revenue streams for farmers and agribusinesses, creating a more resilient world with thriving farmers and more sustainable and environmentally prosperous companies. Since 2013, Indigo’s mission has revolved around on three key principles:
- Helping farmers enhance their profitability and soil health
- Improving the quantity, quality, and traceability of the food available to consumers
- Protecting the environment by reducing and removing harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by storing it into agricultural soils, while incentivizing sustainable land stewardship practices from large corporations
Our people build partnerships, explore the science, and engineer the technology to help grow the future of sustainable agriculture. The only way to achieve it is through a unique combination of expertise – from Fortune 500 to academia, soil science and agriculture, to tech start-ups.
We are excited to add a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst to our team! As an FP&A Analyst, you will play a critical role in driving financial visibility and strategic decision-making for our sustainability solutions. This position will be responsible for collaborating cross-functionally with our Product, Sales, Marketing, and Technology teams, to develop financial models, forecasts, and performance reporting.
What You'll Do
- Support financial planning for various business models (Revenue, Bookings, COGS, OpEx, Working Capital, Cash Flow), including annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders, developing a deep understanding of the business and maintaining budget and forecast expertise to provide strategic advice and guidance
- Develop strong partnerships across Finance to align on reporting needs, optimize service delivery, and ensure actual financial results are seamlessly imported
- Partner with FP&A team to deliver financial analysis, like preparing monthly performance reports, analyzing variances against business, forecast, and other key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Design, track, and manage sales incentive plans to drive performance, ensure alignment with business goals, and maintain accuracy in payouts and reporting.
- Support continuous improvement in reporting processes, data integrity, and financial systems to enhance efficiency
What to accomplish within the first 30 days:
- Gain a deep understanding of the Company’s products, especially the sustainability products
- Familiarize with Financial systems, reporting, and tools
- Review key processes & documentation, including existing financial models, historical forecasts, budget reporting, and other relevant SOPs to understand current workflows
- Meet with cross-functional stakeholders to understand communication styles, reporting frequencies, and critical KPIs
- Assist in preparing monthly performance reports with guidance of FP&A team members
- Begin identifying areas of improvement
What to accomplish within the first 60 days:
- Independently prepare the monthly performance report for sustainability solutions by highlighting key metrics, budget vs. actuals, and trend analyses.
- Collaborating with cross-functional team leads to gather inputs for forecast updates
- Establish clear reporting cadences with key sustainability stakeholders
- Present monthly performance results for key stakeholders, highlighting potential risks, opportunities, and other financial impacts.
What to accomplish within the first 90 days:
- Become the FP&A team’s subject-matter expert regarding our sustainability solutions, providing financial insights to FP&A team and other key stakeholders
- Take ownership of the sustainability product’s ongoing forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring timing updates to key stakeholders
- Assist FP&A team in developing and refining our long-range planning and annual operating plan
- Identify opportunities to improve or automate our standard tasks
- Track and manage our sales incentives plans to ensure proper payouts and reporting
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or related analytical roles. Experience in agribusiness or sustainability-related sectors preferred, but not required
- Familiarity with ERP/financial systems (e.g. Oracle, Tableau, Snowflake) is a plus
- Project Management skill is a plus
- Demonstrates strong analytical skills / potential, with strong Excel skills
- Financial Modeling experience
- Enjoys working cross-functionally in a positive and team-oriented way, whether as a project lead or as a contributor
- Strong communication skills
- Self-starter and desire to learn and develop skill sets
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Takes ownership in work
- Strong interest in Indigo’s mission and helping company to execute to achieve our goals
How We'll Take Care of You
- Base salary of $68,000 - $75,000 annually
- Equity options & annual cash incentives
- Generous paid time off, including Flexible Time Off, 5 sick days, 5 floating holidays, and 12 annual company holidays as well as one week between Christmas and New Year’s for a company-wide annual break, parental leave, and bereavement leave.
- Robust wellness benefits for employees and their eligible dependents including medical, dental, vision, mental health, and basic life and disability insurance
- Optional benefits available include Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA), identity protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- 401K savings plan
Pay Transparency Statement
Indigo is committed to competitive and equitable pay for all employees. The listed pay range for this role is a good faith estimate of the hiring range for this position. Compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including an individual’s experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Benefits Statement
All regular, full-time, permanent employees who work 30 hours or more each week are eligible to enroll in Indigo’s benefits. Additionally, all full-time employees and some parttime employees are eligible for paid time off as outlined above. Based on their role, employees may also be eligible to receive long-term equity incentives and annual cash incentives.
At Indigo Ag, we understand that talent is not a one-size-fits-all. We want candidates who are passionate about our mission and aligned with our Core Values. That’s why we encourage you to apply, even if you do not meet all the requirements listed above. So let us know what skills you bring to the table and how you will add to our culture!