Plant Controller, Long Beach

The role

The Plant Controller serves as the senior accounting leader for the manufacturing site. This person owns the accuracy of site financial results and partners with site leadership to support manufacturing operations.

What you will do

• Serve as the senior accounting leader for the manufacturing site.
• Own the accuracy and integrity of site financial results.
• Lead plant accounting and close activities across manufacturing costs, inventory, fixed assets, capital projects, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Own manufacturing and cost accounting including standard costs, labor and overhead, work in process, inventory valuation, and analysis of production and manufacturing variances.
• Establish strong financial controls and disciplined processes across plant operations.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, FP&A, and Corporate Accounting.
• Build and strengthen accounting infrastructure to support the transition to repeatable manufacturing.
• Lead and develop the site accounting team.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant experience in manufacturing
• Proven experience in plant controllership, site accounting, or manufacturing accounting leadership within a complex, capital-intensive environment
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, inventory accounting, standard costing, manufacturing variances, fixed assets, and capital-project accounting
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and plant leadership
• Experience building or strengthening accounting processes, internal controls, and financial reporting in a growing or evolving manufacturing environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to maintain a regular, hands-on presence within manufacturing operations

Nice to have

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced qualification
• Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial equipment, heavy machinery, or another highly engineered manufacturing environment
• Experience supporting a transition from development or low-rate production to repeatable manufacturing, including implementing or improving standard costing and manufacturing master data
• Experience with complex manufacturing ERPs such as Infor LN, SAP, or Oracle
• Exposure to SOX, government contracting, project accounting, data analytics, or process automation

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

About the company

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The company is developing the Terran R vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.