Financial Analyst
Job Mission
As a Financial Analyst focusing on forest carbon models, you will play a key role in evaluating and improving the financial feasibility of our forest restoration initiatives. Your primary role will be to support the Commercial Finance team in the building and formatting of various forest models. While prior knowledge of carbon markets or forest economics isn't required, your strong financial modeling skills and eagerness to learn will be essential. Your work will support the economic sustainability and environmental impact of our projects, helping us advance our mission to scale effective restoration efforts and drive meaningful climate solutions.
This is a month-to-month contract. Working up to 20 hours a week.
Location: Remote; India
Responsibilities
- Support the finance team with model-making and formatting
- Help to standardize and format our forest models
- Review reforestation project investment opportunities and evaluate commercial viability
- Analyze financial data and report on key metrics, with a focus on providing valuable insights
- Drive continual process improvements, and framework enhancements in support of generating meaningful data-driven insights
- Ad-hoc analysis as required
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business finance or related field
- Strong analytical and accounting skills; must understand key business drivers, ability to communicate financial implications/business impact and provide recommendations
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good follow-through capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Willingness and ability to quickly master new tools and processes
- Advanced spreadsheet skills and ability to work on Google suite (especially Google Sheets)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience modeling project finance
- Experience developing financial reports and metrics
- Advanced Google Slides or PowerPoint
About Terraformation
Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide.
Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net-zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives.
Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.
Learn more at terraformation.com.
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.