Director, FP&A - Aerospace Growth & Strategy

Gravitics Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitics Inc. seeks a Director of FP&A to own financial planning, forecasting, and analysis across the organization. You will partner with the CFO and leadership to translate engineering and program plans into financial decisions, guiding investments and runway for milestones.

Build and mature the FP&A function as the company scales. You will lead budgeting, long-range planning, and investor reporting, while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, and program teams to model unit

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of progressive FP&A experience with 3+ years leading teams.
• Experience in aerospace, space, defense or advanced hardware manufacturing.
• Advanced financial modeling skills and strong command of Excel and modern planning tools.
• Experience with program or project cost tracking and long-cycle, milestone-based revenue.
• Ability to communicate complex financial insight clearly to executives, engineers and investors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts and long-range strategic plan, aligned to program milestones and company goals.
• Own the five-year plan.
• Assist with Board decks and presentations for IR.
• Build and maintain integrated financial models covering P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, headcount and capital expenditure.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analysis on schedule, cost, contract awards and funding to support executive decisions.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and program management to model unit economics, production costs, margins, capacity and capital needs.
• Track program budgets, cost-to-complete and estimate-at-completion, and flag risk early with clear recommendations.
• Support pricing, bid and proposal financials for commercial and U.S. Government opportunities.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly performance reporting, variance analysis and KPI dashboards to the CFO, executive team and Board.
• Support fundraising, investor updates and financial due diligence, working with the CFO on the financial narrative and data room.
• Provide decision-ready analysis on build-vs-buy, make-vs-outsource, and major investments.
• Build scalable planning processes, tools and controls as the company grows.
• Work closely with Accounting on close, revenue recognition, cost accounting and government contract compliance.
• Hire, lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Financial modeling

Excel mastery

Strategic budgeting

Cost tracking and EVM

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

MBA/CPA/CFA (preferred)

Tools

NetSuite

Adaptive

Anaplan

Pigment

Job description

Gravitics Inc. seeks a Director of FP&A to own financial planning, forecasting, and analysis across the organization. You will partner with the CFO and leadership to translate engineering and program plans into financial decisions, guiding investments and runway for milestones.

Build and mature the FP&A function as the company scales. You will lead budgeting, long-range planning, and investor reporting, while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, and program teams to model unit