Finance & Analytics Specialist

About Base

Base is revolutionizing the power sector in the United States by creating a distributed battery network, transforming the conventional centralized grid into a more resilient and plentiful energy system. Our team consists of engineers, operations experts, and creative thinkers tackling some of the most complex interdisciplinary problems.

Role Overview

This position involves developing and managing the core data platform underpinning the finance function. The platform consolidates Base’s financial information including the general ledger from NetSuite, asset registers, approved budgeting data, volume actuals, and forecasting data into a governed finance data warehouse. Above this, you'll create a reporting cube that organizes millions of transactions into user-friendly business dimensions, hierarchies, and pre-aggregated insights. You will oversee the entire platform lifecycle—from data ingestion pipelines to the semantic modeling layer to various interfaces like Excel and BI tools—ensuring fast, reliable, and user-friendly access to financial reports and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the finance data warehouse by designing pipelines that replicate general ledger data and consolidate assets, budgets, actuals, and forecasts in an integrated, governed repository.
• Create and manage a general ledger reporting cube featuring business-relevant dimensions, hierarchical account structures, and pre-calculated metrics, enabling detailed drilldowns from summary results to individual transactions.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity by implementing validated logic aligned with the general ledger, reconciliation checks, and controls to build trust with accounting partners.
• Collaborate closely with accounting teams to define and codify dimensional frameworks, including entities, departments, accounts, allocation methods, and product splits, so all reports inherit consistent structures.
• Support financial consolidation, budget-to-actual comparisons, and enable drilldown analysis into variances by joining forecast and actual data within the reporting cube.
• Build user-friendly interfaces such as Excel-native reports for month-end close, company-wide BI dashboards, and AI agent-ready data access points, ensuring one source of truth for all financial inquiries.
• Expand platform capabilities as finance demands grow, including features like forecast cubes, asset management reports, and tax equity fund reporting.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or BI development with proven involvement in building and running financial reporting platforms combining data warehouses and semantic layers.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL and dimensional data modeling (facts, dimensions, hierarchies) alongside solid expertise in ETL pipeline design to maintain reliable replication of ERP data, independent of specific tools.
• Practical accounting knowledge enabling conversations about chart of accounts, debits and credits, and close calendars with finance personnel, effectively translating accounting processes into data models.
• Strong attention to correctness and data validation practices, with an auditor’s mindset for reconciling data to the general ledger and proactively addressing discrepancies.
• A startup mindset with experience taking full ownership of an initial platform version—scoping, delivering, and iteratively expanding as the company evolves.
• Competency working alongside AI-driven tools, treating intelligent agents as key data consumers and leveraging them to accelerate development.
• Ability to communicate clearly in straightforward language, preferring validated drilldowns and data demonstrations over technical jargon when engaging finance stakeholders.

Team and Culture

The Finance and Business Operations team at Base is dedicated to providing insightful visibility into both historical and future performance, supporting capital allocation, and enabling strategic decisions. The environment entails high complexity, fast pace, and significant financial scale, requiring streamlined analytics, operational integration, and robust controls. As a startup, the role may evolve rapidly with shifting priorities based on company needs.

Core Values

• First Principles Thinking: challenge assumptions and prioritize foundational reasoning over rigid rules.
• Operate with Speed and Focus: emphasize impactful work, quick execution, and continuous learning.
• Constructive Feedback Culture: communicate directly, embrace humility, and foster growth mindsets.
• Ownership Mentality: deliver on commitments with accountability for outcomes.
• Decisive yet Flexible: form strong opinions while remaining open to change with incomplete data.
• Mission Commitment: dedicated to rebuilding the electricity grid, emphasizing impact and all-in effort with in-person collaboration.
• Balance Grit with Positivity: combine intense focus with fun and collaborative celebration.

Additional Information

Base operates in-person in Austin, Texas, and the role is full-time onsite. As a startup, job requirements and responsibilities may shift to align with evolving business priorities.