Strategic Finance Associate

Position Description

The Strategic Finance Associate will play a critical role in supporting Oklo's corporate long-range financial planning, capital allocation and investment decisions, and financing activities. This individual will own project-level financial models across Oklo's capital project portfolio spanning Power, Fuel, and Isotopes, perform investment analysis for new capital projects and business units, and support the broader strategic finance function including capital raising, long-range planning, and executive decision-making support.

The Strategic Finance Associate will report to the Director of Finance. This role offers meaningful visibility with senior leaders including the CFO, VP Finance, and executive team. This is a high-impact, analytical role ideal for a finance professional with strong modeling skills, project finance experience, and an interest in advanced nuclear energy.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Own and maintain detailed project-level financial models for capital projects across Oklo's Power, Fuel, and Isotopes business units
• Prepare presentation materials for executive leadership and the board of directors to inform capital allocation and investment decisions
• Support the corporate long-range financial model by ensuring project-level inputs are current and accurately reflected at the enterprise level
• Analyze unit economics and key cost drivers across Oklo’s Power, Fuel, and Isotopes product lines
• Support capital raising activities (equity, debt, and project finance) by preparing financial projections, diligence materials, and investor presentations
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and operations teams to gather and integrate data inputs into financial models

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in investment banking, project finance, strategic finance, or a related analytical role
• Industry exposure to energy, power, renewables, nuclear, or related capital-intensive infrastructure preferred
• Advanced financial modeling and Excel skills; ability to build and maintain complex, multi-scenario project financial models
• Working knowledge of project finance concepts including debt sizing, DSCR, IRR, tax equity, and sponsor returns
• Strong understanding of capital structure, cash flow modeling, and investment economics
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with strong attention to detail
• Self-starter comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with multiple concurrent workstreams
• Prior experience at a high-growth startup is a plus

Competencies

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Associate that is:

• Passionate about clean energy
• An optimist at heart
• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly
• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before
• Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
• An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
• Able to communicate technical