VP Finance

Patch • San Francisco, CA

13d • $250,000 - $400,000

About The Position

Patch exists to rebalance the planet by making environmental commodities easier to understand, trust, and buy at scale. We route hundreds of millions of dollars through carbon, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable energy, and renewable natural gas. These are scaling markets with settlement and money moving across roughly ten currencies, which means the finance function here is part of the product, not a back office that reports on one.
We are an AI-native services firm. Our embedded climate strategists deliver outcomes for enterprise customers, our platform makes each strategist dramatically more productive and each new market cheaper to enter, and every engagement generates structured data that makes the next engagement faster.
We have raised $85M to date across offices in San Francisco, London & Singapore. The next chapter is a private credit and debt facility to finance inventory and working capital, an acquisition program across adjacent services and data businesses, and the equity raise that funds both. This is the seat that runs all three.

Requirements

• Three to seven years in investment banking, ideally with real M&A or leveraged finance reps.
• You can build a model from a blank sheet and defend every assumption in it.
• Seven to ten years operating in venture-backed companies between Series A and Series C.
• You have lived through the transition from spreadsheet finance to systems finance, and you know which controls matter at which stage.
• You have raised both equity and debt.
• You have carried the legal function alongside finance, managed outside counsel, and handled commercial contracting and governance without needing a GC next to you.
• You already use AI tools daily in analysis, diligence, and drafting.

Nice To Haves

• Private credit, asset-backed, or working capital facility experience is a significant advantage given what we are financing.
• You care about climate, or you are excited by commodities, trade finance, environmental markets, or the energy transition.
• This work is technical and specific, and the people who do it well find the subject matter interesting on its own terms.

Responsibilities

• Own financial operations. FP&A, treasury, cash and FX management, revenue recognition, close, audit, and controls across multiple entities and roughly ten currencies.
• Build the model that the board, our lenders, and I all actually use.
• Own legal and regulatory. Commercial contracting, corporate governance and entity management, and our regulatory posture across the US, UK, and EU as environmental commodity markets get formalized.
• Manage outside counsel and decide what we bring in-house and when.
• Lead M&A. Source, diligence, structure, and integrate acquisitions of adjacent services and data businesses as deal lead with me and the board.
• Own the integration plan, not just the signing.
• Own the board relationship on finance. Build the board materials, run the audit and comp discussions, and be a credible independent voice to directors rather than a narrator of my slides.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed