Chief Financial Officer

About General Flash

General Flash is re-inventing the process to convert metal oxides to metal. We are a dedicated team of builders - experts in materials, physics, chemistry, process and hardware engineering - united in our goal to re-shore metal production for critically important metals. We’re looking for exceptional candidates to join us!

The Role

As Chief Financial Officer, you will own General Flash’s finance function, combining strategic judgment with hands-on execution. You will work closely with the CEO and business and technical leadership to determine how we deploy capital, expand production, and fund our growth.

Your scope will span financial planning, accounting, treasury, manufacturing economics, and fundraising support. You should be equally comfortable evaluating the economics of a new production facility, preparing materials for investors, and making sure the books close accurately.

This is an opportunity to establish the systems, team, and discipline that will support General Flash as we scale to our metal-production factory in 2027.

What You’ll Do

• Own budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning. Partner with founders and functional leaders to connect hiring, equipment purchases, and production milestones to cash needs and runway.

• Guide capital allocation and expansion decisions. Model new facilities and production lines, test key assumptions, and help leadership evaluate costs, timing, and financial returns.

• Build a clear view of manufacturing economics. Work with engineering and operations to track feedstock, energy, labor, yield, and equipment utilization; use these insights to inform pricing, margins, and production decisions.

• Run day-to-day finance and accounting: monthly close, financial statements, payables, receivables, tax coordination, and payroll oversight. Manage external providers and maintain accurate records and practical financial controls.

• Manage cash, treasury, and banking relationships. Plan for working capital needs as raw material purchases, inventory, and customer shipments grow; establish clear spending and payment approvals.

• Partner with founders on fundraising and financing. Own financial models and diligence materials, evaluate debt and equipment financing, and support government funding applications and financial reporting requirements.

• Deliver clear reporting to leadership, the board, investors, and lenders. Establish a regular cadence for reviewing performance against plan, explaining variances, and identifying decisions that need attention.

• Build the finance function as the company scales. Implement practical accounting, purchasing, and reporting systems; hire and develop the team, and coordinate with operations to keep financial and production data aligned.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of finance and accounting experience, including leadership at a growing company.

• Experience building a finance function, with hands-on ownership of financial planning, accounting, cash management, and reporting.

• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to translate complex assumptions into clear business decisions.

• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, energy, or another capital-intensive business; familiarity with production costs, inventory, and facility expansion is a plus.

• Experience supporting fundraising, debt financing, or major capital investments. Exposure to government funding is valuable.

• Clear communication, sound judgment, and a willingness to handle the details while building a team and systems that scale.

• Strong accounting knowledge; a CPA or experience taking a business from R&D into commercial production is a plus.

Work Environment and Safety

This is a 100% in-person position based in Cambridge, MA, with time at our planned Massachusetts factory as the team grows.

This role includes time in laboratory and factory environments; it does not require operating process equipment. Site safety training and appropriate protective equipment will be provided.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, commensurate with, and based on, skills and experience.

• Equity sign-on package.

• Opportunity to build and own the finance function through a defining stage of company growth.

• Work in a small team, where your contributions directly shape our company.

• Benefits: Employee health insurance and dental plan.

• Highly collaborative, 100% in-person environment

• Paid holidays and flexible PTO

General Flash Corp. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.