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CesiumAstro

Designs satellite communications hardware and software

Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRedondo Beach, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited university or college is required.
  • At least five years of financial planning experience, ideally in a fast-paced environment and meeting tight deadlines, is required.
  • Must be willing to work at or relocate to the Redondo Beach location, as this is an in-office position.
  • Experience developing and implementing financial budgets and forecasts is required.
  • Ability to analyze data and synthesize complexity into clear information for decision-making is required.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and other departments is required.
  • A desire to contribute broadly and make meaningful contributions as the company grows by creating novel financial and business insights is required.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

  • Create, update, and maintain financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations.
  • Compare historical results against budgets and forecasts, perform variance analyses to explain differences in performance, and identify improvements going forward.
  • Work closely with the CesiumAstro Finance Team, meet deadlines, and respond to questions.
  • Research key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmark company data.
  • Evaluate company financial data to assess whether investments are the best use of capital, including return on investment and comparisons with alternative uses of cash.
  • Lead program budgets and baseline controls, manage earned value management systems, and ensure required finance inputs, including internal and external reporting, are prepared, reviewed, and submitted on time.
  • Evaluate potential program and product opportunities to determine costs and profitability.
  • Build support processes for proposals, including developing cost volumes, bases of estimates, and roll-ups of non-recurring efforts, recurring efforts, and materials.
  • Evaluate financials for each department, work with departments to prepare budgets and forecasts, and consolidate these into corporate budgets and forecasts.
  • Prepare internal reports for executive leadership to support decision-making.
  • Evaluate inorganic growth opportunities and map out capital and investment plans.
  • Generate three- to five-year financial forecasts.
  • Extract large data sets and consolidate them into useful analytics.
  • Develop dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with defense contracts is preferred.
  • Experience working in a start-up, high-growth, and venture-backed company is preferred.

About the Company

CesiumAstro

Designs satellite communications hardware and software

CesiumAstro builds end-to-end space and airborne communications systems, combining hardware and software to connect satellites, UAVs, and ground stations. Its products include active phased array antennas, software-defined radios, and complete RF payloads that enable electronically steered links for inter-satellite communication, high-rate downlinks, lunar communications, and 5G/NTN networks. The company ships plug-and-play, commercially manufactured, full-stack systems designed to be flexible and cost-efficient, rather than bespoke one-off solutions. Its goal is to make space-based connectivity more accessible and adaptable across space, air, and ground networks for both government and commercial customers.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
Bee Cave, TX
Founded
2017

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