Onsite FP&A Analyst, Aerospace & Programs

Parallax Space; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallax Space is seeking an FP&A Analyst – Business Operations to support cost accounting, purchasing, program financial tracking, reconciliations, and enterprise digital systems. This hands-on role collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, program management, and leadership to build reliable processes and improve data quality in a fast-growing aerospace environment.

The ideal candidate will combine transactional execution with financial analysis, supporting budgets, forecasts, and variance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related area, or equivalent experience.
• 2–5 years of relevant experience in accounting, financial analysis, procurement, or business operations.
• Working knowledge of account reconciliation, accruals, cost tracking, and purchasing transactions.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and analytical reporting).
• Experience using ERP, accounting, procurement, or related enterprise systems.
• Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving, prioritization, and cross-functional communication.
• Comfort with hands-on data entry and transactional tasks as well as analytical responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly close: review transactions, prepare accruals and reconciliations.
• Maintain job-cost structures and track direct labor, materials, subcontractors, and other program expenses.
• Reconcile purchase orders, receiving records, invoices, vendor statements, and accounting entries.
• Support inventory accounting, work-in-progress (WIP), cost of goods sold (COGS), and inventory adjustments.
• Assist with direct and indirect cost allocations, actual-versus-budget reporting, and variance investigation.
• Prepare cost summaries, financial dashboards, budgeting inputs, rolling forecasts, and cash-flow projections.
• Help maintain accounting controls, audit support files, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Process purchase requisitions, issue purchase orders, and maintain vendor, pricing, and order records.
• Coordinate buying needs and delivery priorities with engineering, program management, and manufacturing.
• Track open orders, acknowledgments, delivery dates, and outstanding financial commitments.
• Support vendor onboarding, quote comparisons, and supplier documentation.
• Perform three-way matching of purchase orders, receiving documentation, and vendor invoices.
• Resolve invoice and receiving variances and support accurate accounts payable processing.
• Maintain records and approval workflows for commercial and government-contract procurements.
• Help establish program budgets, work breakdown/cost codes, and consistent program financial baselines.
• Track actual costs, open purchase commitments, remaining funding, and forecast costs to complete.
• Support estimates to complete (ETC), estimates at completion (EAC), and cost variance analyses.
• Prepare recurring program financial reports for program managers and executive leadership.
• Align purchasing and spend forecasts with program schedules, milestones, and cash requirements.
• Support contract milestone billing, customer invoicing, and funding or payment tracking.
• Flag emerging budget, commitment, and margin risks and investigate accounting discrepancies.
• Enter and maintain transactional information in ERP, MRP, accounting, purchasing, and program systems.
• Administer routine master data for suppliers, customers, items, projects, cost codes, and orders.
• Support user onboarding, permissions, approved workflows, and basic system configuration.
• Validate data and reconcile information exchanged across finance, procurement, inventory, and program tools.
• Help troubleshoot user issues, test updates, support implementation and migration efforts, and coordinate with vendors.
• Build reports, dashboards, standard templates, user instructions, and documented procedures.
• Identify practical opportunities for automation and improved data quality.
• Establish and refine repeatable purchasing, reconciliation, financial tracking, and entry procedures.
• Support approval controls, record retention, reporting standards, and audit readiness.
• Collaborate across finance, operations, engineering, manufacturing, and program teams.
• Support special projects, ad hoc analysis, and broader business-system improvement initiatives.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Operational ownership

Systems aptitude

Accuracy and data integrity

Cross-functional collaboration

Adaptability

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related area

Tools

NetSuite

Dynamics

SAP

Acumatica

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Parallax Space is seeking an FP&A Analyst – Business Operations to support cost accounting, purchasing, program financial tracking, reconciliations, and enterprise digital systems. This hands-on role collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, program management, and leadership to build reliable processes and improve data quality in a fast-growing aerospace environment.

The ideal candidate will combine transactional execution with financial analysis, supporting budgets, forecasts, and variance