FP&A Senior Analyst

True Anomaly • Long Beach, CA

3h • $90,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

True Anomaly is seeking an analytically driven FP&A Senior Analyst to support financial planning, budgeting, and analysis across the business, with a particular focus on R&D budgets and capital expenditure planning. The role is embedded at the intersection of engineering, program management, and finance, and helps shape planning, forecasting, and investment decisions tied to the technology roadmap and company strategy.

The analyst partners across functions to drive budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting, and serves as a financial partner to engineering and product leadership on the relationship between R&D and capital investment decisions and business objectives. Candidates must be located near Denver, Colorado, or Long Beach, California. The company has a hybrid work environment, with some work required onsite.

Requirements

• 4–10 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or accounting, with demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, or variance analysis processes.
• Strong financial modeling skills in Excel and comfort working with large, complex datasets.
• Experience building or managing budgets tied to engineering, R&D, or capital projects, and ability to translate technical priorities into financial plans.
• Demonstrated ability to run or support planning cycles, including annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, from build through close-out, including variance analysis and leadership reporting.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including engineering leadership.
• Must meet applicable U.S. Government space technology export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
• Must be located near Denver, CO, or Long Beach, CA; some work must be performed onsite.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the U.S. defense, aerospace and defense, or government contracting sector.
• Experience at an early-stage or growth-stage defense technology or hardware company.
• Familiarity with capitalization policies for R&D and internally developed software (ASC 350-40 / ASC 730).
• Exposure to building or maintaining ROI or business-case frameworks for capital investment decisions.
• Curiosity about and openness to AI-enabled tools that improve financial modeling, budgeting, or reporting workflows.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning at the company, business-unit, and program levels.
• Build and maintain financial models, including revenue forecasts, cash-flow projections, headcount plans, and scenario analyses.
• Conduct variance analysis against budgets and forecasts, identify key drivers, and communicate insights to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support enterprise- and program-level financial reporting for internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Partner with program finance, program managers, and operations to provide forward-looking insights into financial performance.
• Leverage and help improve FP&A tools and data pipelines to increase the speed and accuracy of budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Own financial planning, tracking, and forecasting of R&D budgets across engineering programs, ensuring alignment with technology roadmap priorities and company strategy.
• Build and maintain multi-year CAPEX plans for spacecraft manufacturing, test infrastructure, and facilities, working with engineering and operations to prioritize investments.
• Create and own standardized facilities OPEX forecasts for multiple sites.
• Develop frameworks to evaluate ROI and payback for capital investments and R&D initiatives, translating engineering priorities into financial business cases for leadership.
• Track actuals against R&D and CAPEX budgets, analyze variances, and provide actionable insights to engineering and executive stakeholders about spending trends and risks.
• Partner with engineering leads on bottoms-up budget requests and headcount plans that connect R&D investment to product and program milestones.
• Support capitalization-versus-expense determinations for R&D and software development costs in coordination with accounting.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, with HSA/HRA options.
• Flexible Time Off for exempt employees or accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Parental leave and sick leave.
• Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Dog Fridays.
• Equity participation as part of total compensation.

What This Job Offers

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