Director of Finance, Platform

About This Role

Directing the financial planning, reporting, and cost strategy for the Rocket Motor Systems (RMS), Hardware Engineering (HW Eng), and Software Platform (SWP) teams is the core of this role. You will manage the P&L and investment planning for these platform organizations and serve as the go-to leader for Divisions to understand the ROI of shared capabilities. This position requires comfort operating as an internal finance business partner to platform leadership and as an honest broker to the Divisions that platform teams serve.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting, including budget development and variance analysis against plan
• Design and maintain the cost allocation and chargeback methodology used to bill platform costs back to Divisions and BLs, ensuring the methodology is transparent, defensible, and auditable
• Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses that quantify whether centralized capacity delivers a real cost or speed advantage over a Division/BL building or sourcing the capability independently
• Develop the capacity planning and prioritization framework platform leadership uses to sequence competing demand across Divisions and BLs, and translate resulting trade-offs into financial terms for company leadership
• Partner directly with Division finance leads and business leaders as internal customers, proactively communicating cost trends and variances before they surface as surprises in business reviews
• Build performance dashboards and KPIs (unit cost (APUC), utilization, throughput, cost trend vs. alternatives) that make platform performance transparent to non-platform stakeholders
• Develop ROI and payback analyses to support capacity investment decisions, including new equipment, facilities, and headcount
• Partner with platform engineering and operations leadership on strategic decisions, including build-vs-buy, insourcing/outsourcing, and capacity expansion

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including exposure to manufacturing, hardware engineering, or government contracting environments
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• Experience building or operating cost allocation, shared-services, or chargeback models within a multi-business-unit organization
• Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to independently build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses
• Demonstrated ability to partner with both technical/engineering leadership and finance peers across other business units
• Advanced Excel and financial systems/ERP proficiency
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

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