Director, Cost Accounting

Hadrian Automation • Los Angeles, CA

4d • $220,000 - $270,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts. We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts. Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

The Director, Cost Accounting will own the Company's cost accounting function across a multi-site manufacturing environment, acting as the go-to expert on GAAP costing methodologies and government Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). This person will roll up their sleeves to drive the semi-annual cost rate-setting process, tighten up work order variance reporting, and work hand-in-hand with leadership to build a SOX 404(b)-compliant control environment around inventory and costing.

Requirements

• 10+ Years of progressive cost or managerial accounting experience
• Mixture of experience with high volume and high dollar amount manufacturing
• CPA or CMA certification strongly preferred
• Extremely well spoken. Able to break down complex and hard to understand concepts to all functions at the Company
• Led a Company’s cost function historically
• Extensive understanding of building Company’s and teams
• Deep understanding of internal ownership with multiple stakeholders. Balancing needs and wants of all
• Continuous ownership and improvement life cycles
• Ability to travel lightly, roughly 0-10% depending on the Company’s planning cycles

Nice To Haves

• Extensive SQL or Python knowledge
• Experience in building and owning processes continuously
• Worked with a Company’s Product Management function to improve internally developed software tools for Accounting Uses
• Extensive understanding of multiple types of manufacturing including but not limited to Satellites, CPG, Components, ships, or semiconductor industry best practices

Responsibilities

• Take over the Company’s cost accounting apparatus.
• Drive new processes around variance of work orders to expectations
• Maintain and update the Company’s rates on a semi-annual basis or on a needed basis. Run the cost setting process across multiple sites with many different stakeholders taking input from Operational Finance and Operations to comply with GAAP and CAS needs
• Be the Company’s subject matter expert in GAAP approved costing methodologies across a differentiated manufacturing company
• Implement additional software packages that enhance the Company’s ability to report cost
• Partner with Company leadership to drive a control framework around inventory and costing to a SOX 404(b) standard
• Have extensive understanding of government CAS requirements as it pertains to government and commercial contracts
• Other related duties and special projects as they arise

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed