Manufacturing Finance Partner for Scaled Growth

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Manufacturing Finance Partner to join our Strategic Finance team, helping make manufacturing performance measurable, explainable, and economically actionable as we prepare for hyperscale.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting to build the financial operating lens for scale and to establish cost truth and better inventory visibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial statement knowledge
• Experience with ERP/MRP/MES and inventory data systems
• Excellent communication skills for finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Experience with SQL/Looker/Tableau/Power BI is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing finance reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis across cost, labor, inventory, cash, and operating expense
• Partner with cross-functional teams to turn performance drivers into actionable business actions
• Develop dashboards and cadence for leaders to monitor unit economics and capacity
• Analyze labor efficiency, material usage, yield, WIP, and throughput to inform decisions
• Improve data, systems, and processes for scalable manufacturing finance

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

Data visualization

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL basics

Excel/Sheets advanced

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

ERP systems

MRP systems

MES systems

NetSuite

SAP

Oracle

Inventory management systems

Job description

Zipline seeks a Manufacturing Finance Partner to join our Strategic Finance team, helping make manufacturing performance measurable, explainable, and economically actionable as we prepare for hyperscale.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting to build the financial operating lens for scale and to establish cost truth and better inventory visibility.