Senior Business Analyst / Associate

Overview

Do you love logic, dream in spreadsheets, and consider mental math to be a fun party trick? Are you passionate about joining a company that is making the world a better place? Let's talk!

We're looking for a Senior Analyst / Associate to sit at the intersection of finance, accounting, operations, and commercial strategy. This cross-functional role sits on the Finance team and provides an entry point into any & all data that makes our business tick. You'll start with financial & operational data and expand into sales & marketing data. Within a few months, we'll want you to develop a full mental map of how the data flows across and between our systems, building expertise on which data is needed to answer which questions. You'll eventually provide input into how to improve our systems to improve data quality.

In early weeks, you will start with a monthly review of our financial statements, including variance analysis and working with our accountants to resolve any questions. You'll start to understand the data flows between our operational systems and accounting systems, and perform ad hoc comparisons across systems as-needed. Soon after, you'll start to analyze our customers and sales leads and understand the relative sales performance of different channels. You will also support department leads in ROI analyses for potential projects.


Your past experience ideally includes financial analysis and accounting, so that you are well-prepared to communicate with our accountants and provide financial analyses for an executive audience. We will also consider highly numerate technically-trained individuals who have a serious interest in financial and business analysis. Ideally you have dabbled in using AI and come prepared to use it as a tool to make your already-quick brain even more effective. In your application, please highlight any part of your background (job responsibilities, degrees, grades, test scores) that persuasively describes your training for the role. To apply, please include a resume and cover letter.


We value a diverse workplace, and are assembling our team to match these values at this early stage. We especially welcome different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and strongly encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds and genders to apply.

This is a full-time position and it is expected to be in-office 4 days per week with 1 day flexible for in-office or remote work. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.

What you'll do

All-purpose analytical support:

• Accounting: Review month-end results; do variance analysis; work with accountants to resolve any open issues; work on longer-term projects such as department creation
• Finance: Support budgeting, forecasting, modeling, ad hoc analyses
• Sales & marketing: Review performance by sales channel, track metrics, analyze sales leads, review deal economics, analyze cost of customer acquisition
• Operations: Analyze weekly metrics for sales, production, & fulfillment; support inventory counts and reconciliation; support COGS analyses
• Supply chain: Modeling and forecasting
• Other analytical projects as needed

Serve as a key participant in efforts to improve our data quality and connect the dots between data systems.

What you'll bring

Analytical expertise

• High achievement in roles that are highly quantitative
• Ability to break a problem into its logical components
• Ease in building a model to capture a complex business or financial process
• Quick ability to spot inconsistent data, break-downs of logic, or anything else standing in the way of a tight analysis
• Experience modeling in g-sheets
• Openness to the AI adventure - utilizing your strong intellect in tandem with AI to produce great analyses and insights

Communication and cross-functional collaboration

• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ease in working cross-functionally with all departments and all levels of the company

Joy and passion for work

• Comfort in an always-changing start-up environment
• Willing to step into whatever project or situation needs your assistance
• Calm under pressure. You bring clarity when things get chaotic.
• Low ego, high accountability. You collaborate cross-functionally with openness.
• Mission-driven. You care about electrification and building products that truly serve customers.

Location

This is an in-office role that is on site four days with 1 day flexible for in-office or remote work. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.


Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $120,000-$145,000. We are committed to equitable compensation, and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of the premiums for our employees and 50% of the premiums for their dependents on our base plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a 401(k) plan for employees to contribute to, in addition to many other benefits. Every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment (eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks CA Paid Family Leave).


Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

About Us

Copper's vision is a future where every home is electrified with abundant clean energy. Our mission is to make decarbonization accessible to everyone by selling electric home appliances that enrich their daily lives. We're reducing the cost of electrification by integrating batteries into household appliances, starting with the stove. Our work has been funded by the Department of Energy, in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and increase energy resilience with products that are high-performance, safe, intuitive, and robust. As we build our team and pursue our mission, we do it with a strong sense of our core values because it's not just what you do, it's how you do it. You'll see this in high-level decisions, how we run meetings, our day-to-day work, hiring, and our interactions with customers and the broader community. We intend to have a massive impact on our team, our neighborhood, and the world.