SpaceX
Aerospace & DefenseDirect Greenhouse career site

Sr. Manager, Finance

Location
Austin, TX · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
10+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
31 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • financial planning and analysis
  • ERP systems
  • SQL
  • Excel financial modelling

Also useful

  • capital expenditure tracking
  • KPI analysis

About the role

This is a key financial planning and analysis (FP&A) role with executive-level visibility driving spending and contract profitability for our AI segment. The successful candidate will interface with all aspects of the company, including production, engineering, sales, program management, accounting, and executive management.

Responsibilities

  • Identify resource requirements for business groups, including headcount, capital, vehicle refurb/build costs and operating expenses
  • Work with production and engineering teams to identify production and operational key performance indicators (KPIs) and analyze performance against productivity targets
  • Partner with business unit leaders to prepare financial analysis to help inform optimal operational decision-making
  • Work closely with supply chain to ensure that financial obligations are tracked and committed appropriately as we scale for rapid growth
  • Partner with accounting for financial close analysis and group-level reporting
  • Provide insight on spending variances and department-level reporting to business partners
  • Coordinate capital expenditure tracking and related cash forecasts for the business
  • Provide financial analysis and support to our business initiatives
  • Manage, develop a team of financial analysts

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years of experience in finance or operations
  • 4+ years of experience in a supervisory, lead, or management role

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Master's degree in business administration
  • Experience working in finance organizations of fast-moving manufacturing or technology companies
  • Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) databases and structured query language (SQL) programming
  • Advanced Excel financial modelling skills
  • Experience with presenting analytical results in both verbal and written form across a multi-disciplinary organization

Additional Requirements

  • Willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed
  • This position is based in Austin, TX, and requires being onsite full-time - hybrid and remote work will not be considered

Itar Requirements

  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

About SpaceX

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Read the original posting

From SpaceX's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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