Lead, Business Operations

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

About The Position

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us. The Finance & Strategy team works cross-functionally and supports growth, innovation, strategic initiatives, and capital investments. It's a highly impactful and dynamic team that focuses on business strategy, financial plans including budgets and our long-term strategic plan, KPI development and management, materials for our Board of Directors, fundraising and corporate development activities. Relativity is looking for a Business Operations Analyst to join the Finance & Strategy team. You will report directly to the Manager of Business Operations and will have high visibility across the organization while partnering closely with Senior Leadership. You will work with a team of ambitious, smart, and driven people while managing a wide range of responsibilities that directly support the success and health of the business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or other related discipline
4-7 years of experience of FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis experience, preferably in aerospace, technology, manufacturing, construction, or other capital-intensive industries.
Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills with demonstrated ability to build complex models, perform variance analysis, and translate financial data into strategic insights.
Outstanding ability to synthesize information from large and complex data sets, identify trends and anomalies, and distill findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills - including the ability to translate complex and ambiguous engineering and production requirements into clear and actionable financial decisions.
Self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities that can thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities.
Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with financial planning tools (Planful, Hyperion, or similar)

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SQL or data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)
Experience with manufacturing systems within the aerospace industry
Familiar with aerospace planning, procedures and operations, and safety

Responsibilities

Work closely with multi-discipline manufacturing, engineering, construction, facility, and operations team members to process, document, and track invoices, update project budgets and maintain forecasts.
Operate efficiently and effectively to support Relativity's Manufacturing strategy, including developing and managing budgets, analyzing financial performance, while partnering with engineering, program management, infrastructure, and operations.
Manage project performance by reviewing labor and materials actuals, supporting analysis of actuals vs. plan, schedule status, cost/schedule integration and performance, corrective action plans, performance recovery plans, and baseline planning.
Serve as the strategic finance business partner to Engineering, Project Managers, and leadership by translating business requirements into financial implications, evaluating trade-offs, and guiding resource allocation decisions.
Serve as a trusted business partner to the rest of the organization by driving key trade decisions, assessing the financial and operating impact of our decisions, and strategically driving the best outcome for the business.
Analyze complex production issues and support engineering in deriving smart and scrappy solutions to keep to production schedule, cost, and quality goals.
Support strategic initiatives including business case development, capital investment analysis, make vs. buy evaluations, and ad-hoc financial modeling to inform critical business decisions.