Senior Accountant II

The role

This person will own day-to-day accounting for a complex manufacturing site including inventory, manufacturing costs, labor, fixed assets, capital projects, accruals, and reconciliations. They will partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Corporate Accounting to investigate transaction issues and drive process improvements.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day accounting for a complex manufacturing site
• Prepare journal entries, balance-sheet reconciliations, and variance explanations
• Deliver assigned close activities on the monthly, quarterly, and annual calendar
• Support manufacturing cost accounting including standard costs, labor and machine rates, and overhead absorption
• Analyze purchase price, usage, efficiency, volume, scrap, and rework variances
• Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger
• Support cycle counts and physical inventories
• Handle fixed assets and capital projects end to end
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Corporate Accounting
• Execute controls, support audits, and drive process, master-data, and ERP improvements

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of accounting experience
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP
• Hands-on experience preparing journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial analyses
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient in Excel
• Comfortable working in an ERP or financial-reporting system
• Clear written and verbal communicator

Nice to have

• manufacturing preferred
• CPA or CMA certification, or meaningful progress toward one
• Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial equipment, or another engineered-manufacturing environment
• Experience with standard costing, manufacturing variances, and project accounting
• Hands-on experience with Infor LN, SAP, Oracle, or a comparable manufacturing ERP
• Experience with cycle counts, physical inventories, BOMs, work orders, or routings
• Exposure to a SOX-controlled or public-company environment
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or using automation and AI

Benefits

• competitive salary
• 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 a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up.