Senior FP&A Manager Analyst

Tiberius Aerospace Inc. • Newport Beach, CA

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About The Position

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a highly capable Senior FP&A Analyst to lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis across the organization. This role will play a critical part in helping leadership make data-driven decisions as the company scales its operations, programs, and infrastructure. The Senior FP&A Analyst will partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, and corporate functions to drive financial visibility, improve planning rigor, and support strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical depth, business partnership capability, and experience operating in a fast-paced aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or project-based environment. This is a high-visibility role that will work closely with the Director of Finance. We are seeking someone who wants to grow into increasing responsibility as the company scales, with a clear short-term path to FP&A Manager for the right candidate.

Requirements

• Experience owning a full forecasting or budgeting cycle end-to-end at a company – from stakeholder inputs through leadership presentation, not just the modeling
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, or Accounting
• 5–8+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or related financial planning roles.
• Strong financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis skills.
• Experience supporting cross-functional business partners in a dynamic operating environment.
• Advanced Excel / spreadsheet modeling capability and strong comfort working with financial systems and reporting tools.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Strong business judgment, analytical rigor, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong analytical and financial fundamentals with the ability to solve complex business problems.
• High attention to detail and disciplined planning practices.
• Ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently and drive outcomes.
• Collaborative approach when working across departments and with senior leadership.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and building structure in a scaling organization.
• Curiosity, sound judgment, and a desire to contribute to a mission-critical business.
• Willingness to contribute beyond a narrow job description when the business requires it

Nice To Haves

• Startup or scale-up FP&A experience
• Experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, hardware, or project/program-based environments.
• Experience supporting executive teams, board reporting, or investor-facing analysis.
• Familiarity with program finance, cost accounting, government-contracting environments, or compliance-driven businesses.
• Experience with ERP ,and planning tools such as Rillet, NetSuite, Abacum, Cube, Adaptive, Anaplan, or similar platforms.
• Experience building finance processes in a startup or scaling company environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company’s annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial planning.
• Build and maintain financial models to support strategic planning, operating decisions, and scenario analysis.
• Provide monthly variance analysis on revenue, operating expenses, headcount, capital spending, and program performance.
• Partner with department leaders to develop budgets, monitor spend, and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Support executive reporting, including preparation of management dashboards, board materials, and KPI reporting packages.
• Analyze business performance and identify risks, opportunities, and actions to improve financial outcomes.
• Develop reporting frameworks for program, function, and company-level performance.
• Support cash planning, working capital visibility, and resource allocation decisions.
• Collaborate with accounting to improve forecast-to-actuals alignment and reporting consistency.
• Help establish scalable financial planning processes, tools, and operating cadences as the company grows.
• Support ad hoc analysis related to pricing, hiring plans, capital investments, program ramp-up, and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to a disciplined, data-driven operating environment that supports growth and execution.
• Develop, Oown and manage monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting processes.
• Consolidate financial inputs from multiple functions into clear company-wide plans.
• Develop scenario models for growth planning, staffing, capital needs, and program performance.
• Work with the Director of Finance and CFO to build and refine the detailed forecast model
• Act as a strategic finance partner to leaders across engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, accounting and other G&A functions.
• Support decision-making with timely analysis on spending, investment priorities, and operating leverage.
• Help department leaders understand budget performance and financial trade-offs.
• Produce recurring reporting packages for leadership with actionable insights.
• Analyze trends in spending, headcount, margin, cash usage, and operational performance.
• Build dashboards and metrics that improve transparency and accountability across the company.
• Collaborate with the Director of Operational Finance to streamline engineering efficiency and develop operating KPIs
• Improve planning models, reporting processes, and data consistency across finance and business teams.
• Help implement scalable FP&A tools, templates, and management rhythms.
• Drive improvements in planning accuracy, reporting speed, and decision support quality.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity (stock option grant)
• Flexible PTO plus 9 bank holidays, 48 hours sick leave, and 5 days bereavement leave
• Parental leave (2 weeks)
• Best-in-class health insurance –medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of premiums paid for by Tiberius
• STD, LTD, Life and AD&D insurance
• 401(k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior