Manufacturing Finance Partner: Scale & Optimize Costs

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Manufacturing Finance Partner to join our Strategic Finance team. You will help make manufacturing performance measurable, explainable, and economically actionable as we scale.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations and Accounting to establish cost truth and improve inventory visibility. You will build financial models, dashboards, and cadence for leaders to drive sharp scaling decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline.
• Approximately 3+ years of experience in Manufacturing Finance, FP&A, Operations
• Finance, Cost Accounting, Supply Chain Finance, or another analytical finance role.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial statements, and operational performance drivers.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing, hardware, supply chain, inventory, or other operational cost drivers.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Experience working with ERP, MRP, MES, inventory, or operational data systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle.
• Ability to work with large datasets, identify the business drivers behind the numbers, and communicate findings clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills, high ownership, and the ability to operate effectively when processes and data are still evolving.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing finance reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis across cost, labor, inventory, cash, and operating expense.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting to understand performance drivers and turn them into clear business actions.
• Build financial models and decision support for product cost, production planning, capacity, cost-down initiatives, make-buy analysis, and manufacturing investments.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, and operating cadences that give leaders better visibility into manufacturing performance and unit economics.
• Analyze key operational drivers such as labor efficiency, material usage, rework, scrap, yield, throughput, WIP, E&O, and production volume.
• Improve the data, systems, and processes that support scalable manufacturing finance, including ERP, inventory, and operational reporting workflows.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel

Data analysis

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Data handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline

Tools

ERP/MRP/MES systems

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Manufacturing Finance Partner to join our Strategic Finance team. You will help make manufacturing performance measurable, explainable, and economically actionable as we scale.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations and Accounting to establish cost truth and improve inventory visibility. You will build financial models, dashboards, and cadence for leaders to drive sharp scaling decisions.