Lead, Corporate Finance
Relativity Space · Long Beach, United States · 1mo ago
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Finance team spans FP&A, corporate development, and business operations, combining financial rigor with deep technical context. From shaping the company’s long-term strategy to supporting capital raises and driving operational insights, this team sits at the center of critical decision-making. With a small, high-impact team, you’ll have the opportunity to stretch across disciplines, influence the trajectory of the company, and deliver meaningful value back into the business every day.
About the Role:
We are hiring for a Lead, Corporate Finance role to be the finance partner for our G&A functions and to own planning and reporting for a set of departments end to end. You will be the person your business partners come to when they need to understand their budget, plan headcount, or make the financial case for a decision. It is a hands-on role for someone who is close to the numbers, comfortable in the model and the system, and able to turn analysis into clear guidance for non-finance leaders. This role reports to the Senior Director, Corporate Finance.
- Act as the primary finance partner for functional leaders across G&A (HR, Legal, Security, and others), helping them manage OpEx budgets and evaluate the return on departmental spend, and own consolidated, company-wide headcount planning by maintaining the headcount model, tracking hiring against plan, and providing the financial view for company-wide initiatives leadership is evaluating
- Own the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) cycle for your assigned cost centers, rolling up your departments' plans and running quarterly reforecasts in Planful, and build scenario and what-if models that support decisions on headcount, spend, and other strategic initiatives, surfacing variances while they are still actionable
- Partner with Product and Sales to develop pricing models, assess customer unit economics, and keep pricing aligned with our profitability targets
- Drive the Monthly Business Review (MBR) cadence for your cost centers, preparing clear, concise variance explanations and surfacing operational risks and opportunities, and develop and maintain the KPIs and metrics that give budget owners and leadership a consistent way to measure performance and accountability
- Partner with the Finance Systems team to improve and automate planning and reporting in Planful, building and maintaining self-service dashboards that give departmental budget owners visibility into their performance while reducing manual work and standardizing processes as the company scales
- Take on ad-hoc analysis and special projects for finance and business leadership, bringing structure to open-ended questions and turning them into clear recommendations
About You:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field with 5+ years of FP&A or finance experience, ideally including business partnering with non-finance stakeholders
- Advanced financial modeling skills and comfort working with large datasets
- Hands-on experience with EPM/CPM platforms (Planful, Anaplan, Hyperion, or similar) building dynamic reports, creating templates, and manipulating data views
- Strong communication skills, with a track record of making financial concepts clear to non-finance partners
- A self-starter who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, creating structure where standard processes don't yet exist
- Able to manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines at once
Nice to Haves:
- Experience in a capital-intensive, manufacturing, hardware, or aerospace environment
- Exposure to Infor LN or a comparable manufacturing ERP
- Experience with pricing or unit-economics analysis
- Working knowledge of SQL and data visualization tools
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.