Manufacturing Finance

Base Power Company • Austin, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Base is scaling a vertically integrated energy infrastructure business that depends on producing the world’s lowest cost residential battery storage system. This role will partner with our operators across supply chain and manufacturing to scale this reality as fast and efficiently as possible. You will support manufacturing capex decisions, BOM cost-down initiatives, financial decisions around hardware design choices, and more.

Requirements

• 5+ years in manufacturing finance, operations finance, or plant FP&A at a hardware company — bonus for energy, EVs, aerospace, or other complex assemblies.
• Built and owned unit-economic and BOM-cost models in production — fluent in standard cost, variance analysis, and conversion cost concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to embed with operating teams (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering) and shape decisions in real time, not after the fact.
• Strong capital allocation muscle — comfortable building investment cases, defending them, and holding outcomes accountable to plan.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling; SQL fluency or willingness to get there fast; ERP experience (NetSuite preferred).
• High slope on tools — uses analytics, automation, and AI to multiply effectiveness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate operational complexity for senior leaders without losing fidelity.
• Excited to work onsite at a fast-moving company building physical things — high agency, low ego, builder mentality.

Responsibilities

• Own the production operating budget — BOM cost, conversion cost, plant overhead, capacity utilization, labor, and capex — partnering with Manufacturing and Supply Chain leadership on monthly forecasts, the AOP, and long-range planning.
• Build and maintain unit-economic models for Gen 3 hardware, translating engineering, sourcing, and process decisions into per-unit cost trajectories with decision-grade financial impact.
• Drive capital deployment for the factory: model ROI/NPV for tooling, automation, and capacity additions; own intake, prioritization, and post-spend tracking of all manufacturing capex.
• Run a tight monthly cadence on production and materials variances — partner with Operations and Supply Chain to root-cause misses and convert them into targets the operating teams can hold.
• Translate supplier negotiations, alternate sourcing, and vertical integration decisions into financial impact; size cost-down opportunities and track them through to realization.
• Build the manufacturing scorecard — yield, scrap, labor productivity, materials variance, OEE, conversion cost — that gives Mfg, Supply Chain, and the leadership team a clear view of production performance.
• Partner with Accounting on standard cost setting, inventory valuation, and month-end close; build the analytical layer that lives on top of the cost ledger.
• Develop the data and analytics infrastructure (NetSuite, BigQuery) underpinning manufacturing and supply chain reporting — replace spreadsheet workflows with durable tools.

What This Job Offers

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