Manager, Manufacturing Finance

The role

You will build and own the financial foundation for spacecraft and payload production. You will establish the manufacturing finance function from the ground up and serve as a thought partner on cost, capital, and operational decisions.

What you will do

• Own financial planning, forecasting, and cost structure for production operations
• Serve as primary finance partner to manufacturing, supply chain, and facilities leadership
• Establish processes, tools, and governance frameworks for manufacturing finance
• Partner with Supply Chain on purchasing process and financial governance
• Develop and manage manufacturing overhead rate structures
• Partner with FP&A and Program Finance to ensure alignment with enterprise planning
• Build and lead a team of manufacturing finance professionals
• Support pricing and proposal efforts with production cost inputs
• Lead financial analysis for vertical integration decisions
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on capacity and supply-demand planning

Required qualifications

• 8-12 years of finance experience with significant ownership of manufacturing, production, or operations finance
• Demonstrated experience building financial infrastructure for manufacturing or production operations, processes, tools, and cost frameworks
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost structures including overhead rates, bill of materials, production variances, and capital expenditure planning
• Experience partnering closely with supply chain and procurement on financial governance and purchasing controls
• Familiarity with facility finance, capital planning, and the financial mechanics of scaling a production environment
• Strong FP&A foundation: bottoms-up forecasting, long-range planning, and variance analysis in an operations context
• Ability to serve as a credible, direct thought partner to operational leaders
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field

Nice to have

• Aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing experience
• Experience at a high-growth or early-stage company
• Prior experience in a manufacturing finance role, ideally in a scaling production environment
• Working knowledge of standard costing, inventory valuation, and ERP cost accounting
• Experience managing finance analyst
• Familiarity with government contract cost accounting (FAR/CAS) and program based reporting
• Experience partnering with accounting on month end close, COGS, and inventory reserves
• Strong excel modeling skills with BI tools

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• HSA/HRA options
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees
• Accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Parental Leave
• Sick Leave
• Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Fitness reimbursement
• Dog Fridays
• Equity participation

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligib
• Third-party tools are used to verify applicant identity

About the company

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority by building autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors.