Sr. Associate, Finance Test & Launch
Relativity Space
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.
About the Team:
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.
About the Role:
- Operate efficiently and effectively to support Relativity's Test and Launch strategy, including developing and managing budgets, analyzing financial performance, while partnering with engineering, program management, infrastructure, and operations.
- Own financial performance management by conducting variance analysis (actuals vs. budget/forecast), identifying cost drivers and trends, developing financial models to assess opportunities and risks, and providing insights that drive corrective actions and operational improvements.
- 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.
- Support strategic initiatives including business case development, capital investment analysis, make vs. buy evaluations, and ad-hoc financial modeling to inform critical business decisions.
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or other related discipline and 3-5 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), familiarity with SQL or data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI) a plus.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Advanced degree or training in construction finance and/or construction project management
- Familiar with aerospace planning, procedures, and operations
- Experience with VBA and AI tools
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.