Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

StevenDouglas is exclusively engaged on an amazing Director of FP&A career opportunity in Austin, Texas. Relocation is available.

Reporting to the CFO, the Director of FP&A to lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business partnership across a fast-growing, mission-driven organization. This is a high-visibility role for a leader who can translate complex program and manufacturing economics into clear financial insight for company leadership, the Board, and public markets.

Responsibilities

• Leads the annual budgeting process, long-range financial planning, and monthly/quarterly forecasting across the company.
• Owns management reporting and Board-level financial materials, translating program, manufacturing, and launch cadence data into clear business insight.
• Partners directly with program leaders, operations, and engineering teams to build and maintain program-level cost models and unit economics for launch vehicles, lunar missions, and in-space mobility programs.
• Supports quarterly earnings preparation, investor materials, and public company reporting cadence in partnership with Accounting, Investor Relations, and Legal.
• Develops and maintains headcount planning, capital expenditure forecasting, and cash flow modeling to support a capital-intensive manufacturing and R&D environment.
• Builds scalable planning processes and systems (e.g., FP&A tooling, dashboards) as the company grows manufacturing capacity and program volume.
• Leads variance analysis against budget/forecast and partners with business unit leaders to identify risks and opportunities early.
• Supports M&A evaluation, business case development, and ad hoc financial analysis for new programs, contracts, and strategic initiatives.
• Manages, mentors, and develops a team of FP&A analysts and managers.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required; MBA or CPA a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, including prior team leadership experience required.
• Experience in complex manufacturing/program-based industry strongly preferred.
• Public company experience strongly preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong financial modeling skills, including experience with program-based or project-based cost accounting.
• Experience supporting a public company's forecasting, earnings, and investor reporting cadence.
• Comfort operating in a high-growth, capital-intensive environment with long product/program development cycles.
• Proven ability to manage, mentor, and develop an FP&A team.
• Excellent business partnering skills, able to work cross-functionally with engineering, program management, and operations leaders who may not have a finance background.
• Advanced Excel/financial modeling skills; experience with FP&A and ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan) strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.