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Salary: USD 130,000 - 200,000 / annual
True Anomaly is building autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for U.S. and allied space superiority. As Manager of Manufacturing Finance, you will establish the financial foundation for spacecraft and payload production at scale—a greenfield opportunity to build the manufacturing finance function from the ground up before production volumes ramp.
You will serve as a thought partner to manufacturing, supply chain, and facilities leadership on cost, capital, and operational decisions. Starting as an individual contributor, you will grow into a people-management role as the function scales.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own financial planning, forecasting, and cost structure for all production operations, including manufacturing overhead rates, facilities, capital expenditures, procurement, and bill of materials analysis
- Serve as primary finance partner to manufacturing, supply chain, and facilities leadership, providing financial counsel and challenging assumptions
- Establish processes, tools, and governance frameworks for manufacturing finance, including procurement oversight, capital spend controls, and production cost tracking
- Partner with Supply Chain on purchasing processes and financial governance for high-value procurement decisions
- Develop and manage manufacturing overhead rate structures with accuracy and compliance to cost accounting standards
- Align production economics with enterprise financial planning through partnership with FP&A and Program Finance
- Build and lead a team of manufacturing finance professionals as production volumes grow
- Support pricing and proposal efforts with accurate, defensible production cost inputs
- Lead financial analysis on vertical integration decisions, including build vs. buy trade studies and ROI modeling
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on capacity and supply-demand planning with financial modeling to support production throughput and resource allocation
Requirements:
- 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, cost frameworks)
- Strong understanding of manufacturing cost structures: overhead rates, bill of materials, production variances, capital expenditure planning
- Experience partnering with supply chain and procurement on financial governance and purchasing controls
- Familiarity with facility finance, capital planning, and financial mechanics of scaling production environments
- Strong FP&A foundation: bottoms-up forecasting, long-range planning, variance analysis in operations context
- Ability to serve as credible thought partner to operational leaders; comfortable with difficult business conversations
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field
- Aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing experience strongly preferred
- High-growth or early-stage company experience a plus
Preferred Skills:
- Prior manufacturing finance role in scaling production environment
- Standard costing, inventory valuation, ERP cost accounting knowledge
- Experience managing finance analysts
- Government contract cost accounting (FAR/CAS) and program-based reporting familiarity
- Month-end close, COGS, and inventory reserves partnership with accounting
- Strong Excel modeling; BI tools a plus
Work Location: Hybrid with required on-site presence near Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA. Must be located near one of these offices.
