Relativity Space

Plant Controller, Stennis

Relativity Space • $158K — $238K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
  • 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, particularly in manufacturing.
  • Proven experience in plant controllership or manufacturing accounting leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and inventory accounting practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with cross-functional teams to solve financial issues.
  • Experience in building accounting processes and internal controls in a manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior accounting leader for the manufacturing site, ensuring financial accuracy and integrity.
  • Lead plant accounting and close activities, focusing on manufacturing costs and financial reporting.
  • Own manufacturing and cost accounting, including standard costs and inventory valuation.
  • Establish strong financial controls across various plant operations.
  • Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain to translate manufacturing activity into financial insights.
  • Build the accounting infrastructure to support the transition to repeatable manufacturing, while developing the site accounting team.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity options.
  • Generous PTO and sick leave policy.
  • Parental leave support.
  • Annual learning and development stipend.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
About the Team:

The Accounting team at Relativity spans tax and compliance, financial operations, general ledger, and business data strategy. While each group brings unique insights, they are united by a shared goal of protecting the financial integrity of Relativity, while also enabling smarter, faster decisions to help the company scale. You'll collaborate deeply with teams across the business, ask the right questions, and become a trusted partner, not just a processor. With a focus on enabling growth, you'll bring both structure and creativity to a highly dynamic environment.

About the Role
  • Serve as the senior accounting leader for the manufacturing site, owning the accuracy and integrity of site financial results and partnering closely with the Plant Manager and site leadership.
  • Lead plant accounting and close activities across manufacturing costs, inventory, fixed assets, capital projects, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
  • Own manufacturing and cost accounting, including standard costs, labor and overhead, work in process, inventory valuation, and analysis of production and manufacturing variances.
  • Establish strong financial controls and disciplined processes across inventory, production reporting, purchasing, receiving, fixed assets, capital expenditures, and other plant operations.
  • Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, FP&A, and Corporate Accounting to translate manufacturing activity into accurate financial insights and improve business decisions.
  • Build and strengthen the accounting infrastructure needed to support the transition from development and low-rate production to repeatable, rate-based manufacturing, while leading and developing the site accounting team.

About You
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field with 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant experience in manufacturing.
  • Proven experience in plant controllership, site accounting, or manufacturing accounting leadership within a complex, capital-intensive environment.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, inventory accounting, standard costing, manufacturing variances, fixed assets, and capital-project accounting.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to understand operational drivers and solve complex financial issues.
  • Experience building or strengthening accounting processes, internal controls, and financial reporting in a growing or evolving manufacturing environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate financial results at the operational level and maintain a regular, hands-on presence within manufacturing operations.

Nice to Have
  • CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced qualification.
  • Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial equipment, heavy machinery, or another highly engineered manufacturing environment.
  • Experience supporting a transition from development or low-rate production to repeatable manufacturing, including implementing or improving standard costing and manufacturing master data.
  • Experience with complex manufacturing ERPs such as Infor LN, SAP, or Oracle, along with exposure to SOX, government contracting, project accounting, data analytics, or process automation.


Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Stennis, Mississippi.

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.

Hiring Range:

$158,000-$238,000 USD

About Relativity Space

Relativity Space is an American aerospace manufacturer that is developing 3D printed rockets. The company was founded in 2015 by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Relativity Space's goal is to reduce the cost and time required to produce rockets by using 3D printing technology. The company's rockets are designed to be fully reusable, which could significantly reduce the cost of space launches. Relativity Space has received funding from a number of investors, including Mark Cuban and Playground Global.
Learn more about Relativity Space
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2016

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