Cost Accounting Lead

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Long Beach, CA
In-Office
107K-136K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Manufacturing
Building reusable rockets to empower science and exploration.
The Role
The Cost Accounting Manager will perform reconciliations, monitor inventory costs, generate journal entries, and conduct variance analyses while collaborating with various departments.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 Accounting team at Relativity spans tax and compliance, financial operations, general ledger, and business data strategy. While each group brings unique insights, they are united by a shared goal of protecting the financial integrity of Relativity, while also enabling smarter, faster decisions to help the company scale. You’ll collaborate deeply with teams across the business, ask the right questions, and become a trusted partner, not just a processor. With a focus on enabling growth, you’ll bring both structure and creativity to a highly dynamic environment.

About the Role:

  • Own the costing and reporting of major subassemblies such as engines, avionics, and structures
  • Manage the monthly variance analyses for P&L and balance sheet account categories
  • Lead major projects such as the adoption of new costing functions
  • Generate and review general journal entries, as part of regular monthly financial close
  • Perform system updates and administration functions to support part costing
  • Engage with team leaders in Production Operations, Purchasing, Planning, & Engineering for program reporting and project implementation
  • Partner with Materials Management and Production to ensure accurate warehouse and shop floor inventory centers

About You:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or Finance.
  • 5+ Years of Cost Accounting experience
  • Knowledge of GAAP
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
  • Experience with major ERP software
  • Proficient in documentation
  • Effective in presenting to diverse audiences
  • Experience with Work Order Costing

Nice to haves but not required:  

  • Experience with SQL, or other reporting languages
  • LN Infor experience
  • Calculation of Direct and Overhead Rates
  • Experience with Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
  • Cycle Count program administration.

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.

Hiring Range:
$107,000$136,400 USD

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 [email protected].


Top Skills

Dashboard Reporting
Erp Software
Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Long Beach, CA
1,800 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, Terran R, 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.

Why Work With Us

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.

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At Relativity Space, we are an office-first company. We believe our best work happens in person—where collaboration is faster, problem-solving is sharper, and ideas flow more freely.

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