Finance Manager

Finance Manager

This is an opportunity to work on a growing Finance and Accounting team and to make an immediate impact in a fast-scaling Space startup. We are a high-performing team and are hiring our future leadership.

You are experienced with financial budgeting and forecasting, and are experienced collaborating with teams across the company (including sales, engineering and supply chain) to build a detailed understanding of cash management, sales planning, operating costs, capital spending, and balance sheet. You understand how finance drives the success of other departments within a company and want to help those teams succeed. You have ideas on how to improve processes and procedures to support a business scaling to multiples of its current size – and have the leadership ability to drive those initiatives.

You would enjoy being a key member of a growing team that regularly goes above and beyond FP&A to manage Astranis’s capital raising activities, customer pricing, investor relations, and corporate development, among other activities.

Role

• Responsible for budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis for commercial and government programs
• Collaborate with teams across the company to build a detailed understanding of cash management, sales planning, operating costs, capital spending, and balance sheet.
• Support rapid scaling and growth by implementing best-in-class processes, procedures and systems.
• Support other financial and accounting functions as required including capital raising activities, customer pricing, investor relations, and corporate development, among other activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related field
• 3 - 9 years of financial analysis experience
• MUST have experience working in a rapidly scaling startup environment
• Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret complex data and financial concepts
• Must be an effective communicator of financial concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly proficient user of Adaptive Insights and Netsuite, or similar financial planning and ERP software platforms.
• Highly adaptable and excels in improvising given an unstructured and rapidly changing environment.
• Proactively identify areas to instill discipline and process where appropriate.
• Highly self-motivated with a strong work ethic
• Seeking a challenge and career development
• Above all, you are a good person!

Bonus

• Experience working in the spacecraft manufacturing industry or similar
• Experience working at a US-based defense contractor for aerospace and/or military programs.