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title: 'FP&A Manager at Gecko Robotics'
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# FP&A Manager at Gecko Robotics

- **Company:** Gecko Robotics
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gecko-robotics/0ffeeb6d-88a7-4677-912d-8316457a72ca

## Job description

## What We Do

Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.

## Role At A Glance

We’re looking for an FP&A Manager to own financial planning and performance reporting and help Gecko decide where and how to invest. Reporting to the VP Finance, you will partner with business leaders to build forecasts, challenge assumptions, and turn analysis into clear recommendations on growth, profitability, and cash needs. You will also improve the planning and reporting processes that support our next stage of growth. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports, supporting a business that combines robotics, software, and field operations.

## What You Will Do

- Own the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range plan, bringing together business inputs in an integrated model covering revenue, gross margin, headcount, spending, and cash flow.
- Partner with commercial and operations teams to forecast revenue and cash from sales opportunities, signed contracts, deployment schedules, and delivery capacity, clearly explaining timing assumptions and risks.
- Lead monthly financial reviews, explain results against plan, separate timing differences from underlying trends, and agree on actions with business owners.
- Analyze profitability by customer, contract, and offering, including delivery costs, costs to complete remaining work, scope and schedule risks, and team and equipment utilization.
- Build scenarios to guide hiring, pricing, spending, and capital investments, weighing returns, payback periods, and cash needs against growth and profitability goals.
- Prepare financial analyses, KPI dashboards, and commentary for leadership, the board, and investors, explaining results, risks, and the outlook.
- Partner with Accounting to reconcile actual results and understand revenue and cost treatment; improve planning tools and automate reporting while preserving financial controls and traceability.
- Support the VP Finance on fundraising through funding scenarios, financial models, investor materials, data room preparation, and due diligence, keeping assumptions consistent across forecasts and investor communications.
- Support M&A through valuations, acquisition models, and assessments of strategic and financial fit; review earnings quality, working capital, and integration costs, and track post-close results against the investment case.

## About You

Required Skills

- 7+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or venture capital, with the ability to own planning and reporting in an operating business.
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong financial modeling and analysis skills and advanced Excel or Google Sheets proficiency, including building forecasts from operating drivers, connecting the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, and clearly explaining assumptions.
- A solid understanding of accounting and financial statements, including how bookings, recognized revenue, billing, and cash collection differ.
- Experience working with business leaders to challenge assumptions, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions, with clear communication across financial and nonfinancial audiences.
- Ability to work with incomplete data, build practical processes, and manage competing deadlines with accuracy and follow-through.

## Preferred Skills

- Finance experience at a growing technology company, particularly one combining software, hardware, and services or delivering complex customer projects
- Exposure to contract or project profitability, field operations, capacity planning, or government and industrial customers
- Experience improving planning systems or using SQL, business intelligence, automation, or AI tools in finance, with appropriate checks for accuracy
- Experience supporting fundraising, M&A, financial due diligence, or board and investor reporting

## Who We Are

At Gecko, our people are our greatest investment. In addition to competitive compensation packages, we offer company equity, 401(k) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, full medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health, ongoing professional development, family planning assistance, and flexible paid time off. Gecko values collaboration, innovation, and partnership, and we believe we do our best work when we're together in person. We’re an office-first culture but understand that sometimes you may need to work from home. Many people are in the office five days a week, others need a bit more flexibility. Ultimately, we care about the outcomes we achieve - and creating a culture of autonomy and trust that enables that impact. Gecko is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission to protect today’s infrastructure and give form to tomorrow’s. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our critical mission, we’d love to hear from you.

## About Gecko Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gecko Robotics uses AI-powered robots to inspect, monitor, and maintain critical infrastructure for energy, manufacturing, and defense industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Jake Loosararian, Troy Demmer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics Engineering, AI-powered Industrial Inspection, Critical Infrastructure Maintenance
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise – Fortune 100 companies in energy, oil & gas, manufacturing, defense, and government sectors (U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Diagnosing the health of our world's critical infrastructure." Gecko provides unprecedented visibility into asset health for confident decision-making at scale, ensuring the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[Cantilever®](https://www.geckorobotics.com/)**: An AI-powered operating platform that unifies high-fidelity physical data from Gecko's fleet of robots and fixed sensors into a single source of truth. It enables teams to achieve operational excellence through actionable data for immediate and long-term planning.
- **[Robotic Fleet](https://www.geckorobotics.com/)**: Robots that climb, crawl, swim, and fly, carrying ultrasonic sensors and cameras to capture first-order data from inside critical assets like boilers, tanks, pipes, and pressure vessels.
- **Services**: Inspection services, predictive maintenance, data analytics, and asset health consulting for power generation, oil & gas, defense, steel, mining, and pulp & paper industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.25 billion (as of Series D round in June 2025) — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Total Funding**: $347.4M raised across multiple rounds, including a Series D ($125M, June 2025) and a Series D-II — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $43.8M (LinkedIn data) — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2016 batch), E1 Ventures, Leblon Capital, Innova Capital Partners, Morrison Seger, Nour Nouf Ventures, and 48+ others. Key partners include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, ADNOC, and Trident.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - $71M deal with U.S. Navy to reduce maintenance delays and achieve 80% fleet readiness by 2027 — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness)
  - Multiple agreements with ADNOC to deploy Cantilever across energy assets and launch UAE national training programs — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/adnoc-group)
  - New partnership with Trident to accelerate U.S. Navy production with AI and robotics (March 2026) — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI+Robotics for critical infrastructure**: Gecko is the pioneer of "AIR technology" (AI + Robotics) for the built world, combining physical robots with an AI-powered software platform.
- **Proprietary high-fidelity data**: Creates first-order data layers that are difficult for competitors to replicate, giving customers a single source of truth for asset health.
- **Deep customer relationships**: Works with Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. military, with contracts that are mission-critical and long-term.
- **88+ patents** covering robotics, nondestructive testing, and piping — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Proven ROI**: Cited examples of increasing throughput by 40% in defense industrial base and preventing catastrophic failures (e.g., boiler explosions).

## Strategic Focus
- **Defense & government expansion**: Major push to scale partnerships with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and allied nations to modernize military infrastructure.
- **International growth**: Operating in 7 countries including the UAE, Canada, India, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK.
- **Platform expansion**: Growing Cantilever as the operating system for physical infrastructure, extending beyond inspections into operations, maintenance, and capital planning.
- **AI and software first**: Increasing investment in predictive AI, analytics, and the software platform to own the full asset lifecycle.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact work**: Engineers and operators work on problems that directly affect national security, energy reliability, and industrial safety. "Your work unlocks solutions at the bedrock of the world’s most critical industries." — [Careers Page](https://www.geckorobotics.com/careers)
- **Culture**: Described as "Rust on our boots, dirt under our nails" — hands-on, gritty, real-world engineering. The team is driven by solving complex physical-world problems.
- **Hybrid/Office**: Offices in Pittsburgh (HQ), Houston, Boston, New York City, and Abu Dhabi. Field roles are heavily on-site.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on Forward Deployed Engineers (builders in the field), robotics, software, and 3D visualization. Engineering culture is described as ambitious, autonomous, and impact-focused.
- **Talent sources**: Frequent hires from Palantir, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Carnegie Mellon, Aurora, and US Navy — indicating a culture of high-performance and technical rigor.
- **Notable perks**:
  - Company is at the frontier of AI + Robotics with a $1.25B valuation and strong government contracts
  - Opportunities for field deployment to customer sites (power plants, naval bases, oil rigs)
  - Open roles include: Forward Deployed Engineer, Robot Field Operator, Software Engineer (3D Visualization), Product Security Engineer, NDT Specialist — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics/jobs/)

## Sources
1. [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/) — Company homepage
2. [geckorobotics.com/about-us](https://www.geckorobotics.com/about-us) — Founding story and history
3. [geckorobotics.com/careers](https://www.geckorobotics.com/careers) — Careers overview and culture
4. [linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics) — LinkedIn company page, headcount, salary data
5. [cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics) — Funding, patents, investors, financial data
6. [geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness) — $71M Navy deal
7. [geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production) — Trident partnership

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