Lead, Business Operations Manufacturing

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Generous PTO and sick leave

Parental leave

Annual learning and development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space in Long Beach, California is seeking a Business Operations Analyst to join their Finance & Strategy team. This role involves collaborating with various teams to manage financial performance and support strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a degree in finance or a related field, along with several years of experience in financial analysis.

Your responsibilities will include tracking project budgets, analyzing production issues, and leading financial modeling efforts to drive key business decisions. Relativity offers a competitive salary range of $124,000—$186,000 along with additional perks like generous PTO and learning stipends.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis experience, preferably in capital-intensive industries.
• Ability to build complex models and perform variance analysis.
• Exceptional ability to synthesize information and identify trends.

Responsibilities

• Process, document, and track invoices and budgets.
• Support manufacturing strategy and analyze financial performance.
• Translate business requirements into financial implications.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline

Tools

Planful

Hyperion

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe 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 & Strategy team works cross-functionally and supports growth, innovation, strategic initiatives, and capital investments. It's a highly impactful and dynamic team that focuses on business strategy, financial plans including budgets and our long‑term strategic plan, KPI development and management, materials for our Board of Directors, fundraising and corporate development activities. Relativity is looking for a Business Operations Analyst to join the Finance & Strategy team. You will report directly to the Manager of Business Operations and will have high visibility across the organization while partnering closely with Senior Leadership. You will work with a team of ambitious, smart, and driven people while managing a wide range of responsibilities that directly support the success and health of the business.

About the Role:

• Work closely with multi-discipline manufacturing, engineering, construction, facility, and operations team members to process, document, and track invoices, update project budgets and maintain forecasts.
• Operate efficiently and effectively to support Relativity's Manufacturing strategy, including developing and managing budgets, analyzing financial performance, while partnering with engineering, program management, infrastructure, and operations.
• Manage project performance by reviewing labor and materials actuals, supporting analysis of actuals vs. plan, schedule status, cost/schedule integration and performance, corrective action plans, performance recovery plans, and baseline planning.
• Serve as the strategic finance business partner to Engineering, Project Managers, and leadership by translating business requirements into financial implications, evaluating trade‑offs, and guiding resource allocation decisions.
• Serve as a trusted business partner to the rest of the organization by driving key trade decisions, assessing the financial and operating impact of our decisions, and strategically driving the best outcome for the business.
• Analyze complex production issues and support engineering in deriving smart and scrappy solutions to keep to production schedule, cost, and quality goals.
• Support strategic initiatives including business case development, capital investment analysis, make‑vs‑buy evaluations, and ad‑hoc financial modeling to inform critical business decisions.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or other related discipline and 4-7 years of experience of FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis experience, preferably in aerospace, technology, manufacturing, construction, or other capital‑intensive industries.
• Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills with demonstrated ability to build complex models, perform variance analysis, and translate financial data into strategic insights.
• Outstanding ability to synthesize information from large and complex data sets, identify trends and anomalies, and distill findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills - including the ability to translate complex and ambiguous engineering and production requirements into clear and actionable financial decisions.
• Self‑starter with strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities that can thrive in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment with competing priorities.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with financial planning tools (Planful, Hyperion, or similar), familiarity with SQL or data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI) a plus.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience with manufacturing systems within the aerospace industry.
• Familiar with aerospace planning, procedures and operations, and safety.

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.

$124,000 — $186,000 USD

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.

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