Financial Analyst

Create a New Asset Class. Feed the Planet. Fight Climate Change.

Recognizing that farming is the single most vital industry on our planet, we want to drive sustainable and prosperous food systems that work for everyone in our globally connected world. We seek to bring creative and transformative capital to farming while opening up a vital asset class to all investors, previously only accessible to the largest institutional investors, despite being a $10 trillion global market. This is a unique opportunity to join at the very beginning of this exciting journey and help grow a truly innovative financial product while also having a positive impact on our environment and food systems.

The founding and executive teams have decades of institutional experience in ag, farmland, and food investing, having previously deployed over $1B into this asset class. We also have deep financial and tech expertise that allows us to build investment products for the future. We’ve raised several million dollars in VC and angel funding to date, have thousands of investors on our platform, and have deployed millions of dollars into farmland deals across the United States.

Our backers include Blue Seed Collective, Franklin Templeton ($1.5T global asset manager), Richie Prager (a former key executive at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world), founders of Grammarly, founder of Pillpack, former CEO of Fonterra (largest dairy exporter in the world) and many other prominent financial, agricultural and tech professionals.

Our vision is to ensure peace and plenty by investing in the sustainable agricultural revolution.

We are looking for a hands-on Financial Analyst (US-based, Remote) who can help build out the financial reporting and analysis function at FarmTogether. In this role, you will play an integral role in the overall finance, budgeting, reporting and operations of our farmland portfolio.

The Financial Analyst will work closely with the Acquisitions Team, the Farm Management Team and our Accounting Team to ensure that our farms are performing as planned, and to establish systems that facilitate visibility into the financial status of each farm across the organization. This role requires an in-depth knowledge of finance, real estate and accounting. 

In addition to the day-to-day responsibilities of tracking and reporting on the financial status of our farmland, this role will also be responsible for building out transparent and repeatable systems and processes that will allow the function to scale.

FINANCIAL ANALYST

Responsibilities

• Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking.
• Create various cash flow, balance sheets, revenue, and expense budgets and forecasts.
• Analyze historical operating statements, budgets, leases, and loan agreements, as well as current market and commodity conditions to inform financial underwriting assumptions.
• Build scalable reporting processes to ensure farms meet financial targets.
• Perform variance analysis and communicate cross-functionally to explain any deviations from projections.
• Organize and present data analysis, draw objective conclusions and make recommendations for course correction and modeling assumptions.
• Support the Acquisitions Team by performing special projects such as analysis of trends and investigation of specific issues.
• Prepare materials for quarterly farm updates. 
• Prepare ad hoc analysis for management as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS in Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics or a highly analytical field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in Investment Banking, PE/VC, Real Estate, Financial Planning and Analysis, Asset Management or other related fields. 
• Experience building and implementing complicated financial models.
• Experience building concise but beautiful investment decks. 
• Strong cross-functional communication abilities 
• Embody and champion a data-driven, technology-forward culture.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Google Suite 
• Independent worker with a passion to work in the agricultural investment industry 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in agricultural financial analysis and/or farmland asset management or experience in timber/infrastructure/other real assets management with large institutional asset managers
• Experience in bulge bracket banks, valuation practices in Big 4, or other companies with world class modeling training.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, VBA or other modeling automation tools.
• Highly competent communicator that knows how and when to surface risks to the executive team
• Comfortable working through ambiguity
• Experience or desire to work in a fast-paced, high growth start-up environment