Senior FP&A Analyst, Manufacturing & Strategic Expansion

Overview

This role supports financial planning and analysis for an integrated manufacturing model as the organization scales existing operations and evaluates expansion into 5 to 7 additional product and mission verticals. Reporting to the Manager of FP&A, the Senior FP&A Analyst partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Product and Program leaders, Go-to-Market, Accounting, and People Operations to translate demand and launch plans into revenue, production, capacity, COGS, gross margin, investment, working capital, and cash requirements.

This is a forward-looking FP&A, modeling, and business partnership role—not a technical accounting or controllership position.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve an integrated, driver-based manufacturing model for existing operations and expansion into 5 to 7 additional product verticals.
• Translate demand forecasts, program schedules, and launch plans into production-volume, ramp-rate, throughput, capacity, and resource scenarios by product and vertical.
• Build revenue forecasts by product, program, customer, and vertical using unit volume, price, mix, backlog, delivery schedule, and launch-ramp assumptions, with revenue timing aligned to applicable contract terms and accounting policies.
• Model product and vertical-level COGS and unit economics, including material and bill-of-material costs, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, yield, scrap, rework, freight, warranty, and outsourced production assumptions.
• Develop gross-margin forecasts and bridges isolating the effects of volume, price, mix, material usage and purchase price, labor efficiency, yield, overhead absorption, warranty, and other cost drivers.
• Connect revenue and manufacturing plans to headcount, facilities, tooling, equipment, capital expenditures, inventory, working capital, and cash requirements, and integrate outputs into the budget, forecast, and long-range plan.
• Build repeatable model templates and assumption standards for new verticals so opportunities can be evaluated consistently while preserving operating differences across each product, market, and launch plan.
• Support stage-gate investment decisions and business cases for new verticals, including capacity additions, make-versus-buy choices, automation, supplier strategies, and facility expansion using scenario, sensitivity, return, and breakeven analysis.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Product and Program leaders, Go-to-Market, and Accounting to validate model inputs, challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, and maintain a clear source of truth.
• Lead manufacturing inputs to annual planning and quarterly forecasts, including revenue, production, COGS, gross margin, headcount, OpEx, CapEx, inventory, working capital, and cash-flow assumptions.
• Establish a recurring actual-to-model review cadence; explain revenue, COGS, and gross-margin performance through volume, price, mix, usage, labor-efficiency, purchase-price, yield, and overhead variances and recalibrate forward assumptions.
• Develop dashboards and operating metrics for revenue, COGS, gross margin, backlog conversion, throughput, capacity utilization, labor hours, yield, scrap, supplier performance, inventory, overhead absorption, unit cost, and cash conversion.
• Partner with Accounting during monthly close to reconcile source data and understand accruals, inventory movements, capitalization, reclasses, and cost trends that affect forecast and model accuracy.
• Prepare executive-ready analyses communicating key assumptions, risks, constraints, sensitivities, and recommended actions for manufacturing and vertical-expansion decisions.
• Improve planning tools, data structures, documentation, and reporting processes so the manufacturing model remains scalable, auditable, and decision-useful as the organization grows.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, operations finance, investment banking, or a related analytical role, preferably with exposure to hardware or manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, including the ability to build flexible driver-based models, scenario and sensitivity analyses, and integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow outputs.
• Strong understanding of operational drivers of revenue, COGS, and gross margin in a manufacturing business, including volume, price, mix, materials, labor, overhead, capacity, capital investment, inventory, and working capital.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and recurring performance reporting in a dynamic business environment.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop supportable assumptions with incomplete data, and translate complex analysis into practical decisions.
• Comfort working directly with technical and non-finance stakeholders and translating financial concepts into practical operating guidance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, producing concise executive-ready materials and presenting issues in a structured, credible way.
• High attention to detail, strong follow-through, and ability to operate independently with a high degree of ownership in a fast-changing environment.
• Collaborative, low-ego operating style and willingness to dig into details while keeping sight of the broader business context.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace and defense, advanced hardware, robotics, electronics, or another complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience building or maintaining revenue, COGS, gross-margin, manufacturing, capacity, unit-economics, or new-product-introduction models.
• Working knowledge of standard costing, cost accounting, overhead absorption, inventory accounting, or supply-chain finance.
• Experience evaluating new products, programs, business lines, or vertical launches using business cases, scenario analysis, and stage-gate investment frameworks.
• Exposure to ERP, manufacturing resource planning, procurement, HRIS, business intelligence, or FP&A systems; NetSuite and Power BI experience are a plus.
• Experience developing operating dashboards and partnering with leaders through a monthly or quarterly business review cadence.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range (Remote, United States): 120,000 - 135,000 USD per year
• Comprehensive BCBS medical, dental, and vision coverage; 80% sponsored by the employer.
• Safe Harbor 401(K) with company match.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• On-site gym at Huntsville, AL & Denver, CO locations.
• Employer provided life insurance.
• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Competitive salary, generous paid time off (PTO), and flexible leave options.

Location

• Remote (United States)
• Position may require occasional travel to employer, supplier, or other business locations.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, bend, reach, and move about regularly throughout the day and lift/carry up to 25 pounds.
• Manual dexterity to operate standard office equipment such as computers, printers, and phones.
• Physically capable of walking between office and production areas and attending off-site meetings as needed.

Work Environment

• Typically operates in standard office and manufacturing environments and may require occasional travel.
• Production area visits may involve exposure to noise, outdoor weather, or non-climate-controlled environments and may require personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Fast-paced role requiring cross-departmental collaboration and independent ownership.
• Standard work hours are 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., with occasional overtime as operational needs require.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The employer is an equal opportunity employer that upholds all federal and state non-discrimination laws and ensures fair and unbiased evaluation for employment for all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, medical condition, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.