Financial & Operations Analyst

About Terra Ag Ventures

Terra Ag Ventures is a growing agricultural investment, farm management, and real estate and land development company with assets throughout California and Arizona. Our portfolio includes almonds, pistachios, pecans, cherries, peaches, and other permanent crops, as well as land development and entitlement projects throughout the Central Valley.

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-oriented Financial & Operations Analyst to work directly with ownership and senior management. This individual will play a key role in financial modeling, acquisitions, budgeting, reporting, operational analysis, and strategic decision-making across our agricultural and real estate portfolio.

Position Overview

The Financial & Operations Analyst will be responsible for building and maintaining sophisticated financial models, conducting market research, developing dashboards and reporting tools, and helping management evaluate the performance of our farms, orchards, and development projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed multi-year financial models for agricultural acquisitions, farm operations, orchard redevelopment projects, real estate development projects, and joint ventures.
• Analyze commodity pricing, yield projections, water costs, labor costs, fertilizer and input costs, capital expenditures, financing structures, and development economics.
• Research agricultural and real estate market data, including almonds, pistachios, pecans, cherries, peaches, home prices, lot values, impact fees, and development costs.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to monitor farm profitability, yields, budget-to-actual performance, commodity pricing, water usage, development project performance, cash flow, and debt metrics.
• Work closely with farm management teams to review vendor bids, analyze operating costs, evaluate capital projects, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Collaborate with accounting, bookkeeping, AP/AR, and management teams on lender reporting, partner reporting, budgeting, and cash flow analysis.
• Develop new KPIs and reporting tools that improve management's ability to monitor and improve performance across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Agricultural Business, Real Estate, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to build sophisticated financial models from scratch.
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic and the ability to work independently.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Power Query, or similar tools is a plus.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, intellectually curious, and comfortable working with large amounts of data. The ideal candidate enjoys building models, identifying trends, solving complex problems, and helping management make better business decisions.

Growth Opportunity

• This position offers direct access to ownership and senior leadership and significant exposure to acquisitions, development projects, farm operations, financing, and strategic planning. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding organization and assume increasing responsibility as the company continues to expand its agricultural and real estate portfolio.