We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a unique and highly skilled team, you’ll participate in building the road to space. We are seeking a proactive leader with top caliber financial and analytical skills and strong interpersonal and service skills, that will thrive in a fast-paced, high growth environment. As a Blue Origin Business Unit CFO, you will partner with the Senior Executive of a complex, rapidly growing Business Unit to provide executive financial leadership driving performance improvement and predictability while building a best-in-class business.

Partnering with the business unit Senior Executive and other members of the senior leadership team, you will be responsible for all business unit financial management. This role will provide critical analysis and financial strategy as an advisor to business leaders, supporting strategic operating decisions. These may include decisions on capital investments, mission objectives, schedule performance, new business opportunities, and product and service pricing.

You'll be tasked with building the financial infrastructure and a scalable finance function that has the right people, processes, and tools to enable growth.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Establish clear team and individual objectives, support performance and career development, and team engagement
• Develop self and others by demonstrating strong leadership presence, seeking feedback, continuously coaching, and providing resources for development
• Develop and deliver business unit financial commitments in program/project EACs, investment returns, and AOPs, and multi year financial planning process
• Facilitate change by seeking opportunities to transform or improve systems, processes, and model adaptability
• Review bids and proposals, customer contract performance, new opportunity development
• Collaborate on assessment of strategic partnerships and M&A activities
• Establish finance operational strategies by evaluating trends, establishing critical measurements, resolving problems, and implementing change
• Drive financial control by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures
• Eliminate bottlenecks to improve cycle time
• Drive financial transformation to drive automation and access to information to collaborators
• Perform financial analysis to support investments, pricing and new business decisions
• Drive cost reduction and efficiency. Establish targets, drive progress, and measure results
• Contribute to development of Finance related training
• Accomplish finance related HR strategy by determining accountabilities, communicating and implementing values, policies, and procedures in conjunction with recruitment and workforce management activities.
• Develop financial strategies by forecasting capital, facilities, and staff requirements; identifying monetary resources; and developing action plans
• Supervise financial performance by measuring and analyzing results, initiating corrective actions, and minimizing the impact of variances
• Lead improvement of risk and opportunity analysis and development of mitigation plans
• Maximize returns on invested funds

Skills and Abilities:

• Skilled business executive who is strategic, practical and hands on, and goes beyond the financial role and serves as a key executive in all aspects of the business. Proven track record of building, managing and leading an efficient and impactful finance organization.
• Experience holding broad scope roles across the finance spectrum, encompassing accounting, FP&A, contracts, sales, strategic planning, and merger and acquisitions.
• Served as a thought partner to Business Unit Executive/CEO helping to advise, influence and drive key business decisions
• Experience creating and building fundamental framework and core financial infrastructure including people, process and tools
• Successfully implement controls, processes, and risk management initiatives
• Effective influencer and frequent communicator across organizational levels
• Ability to effectively manage multiple, large-scale projects and dynamically shift focus and reprioritize when needed
• Success in motivating, training, recruiting, and developing superb talent
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to evaluate the need for change and the impact to the business, a builder
• The highest level of integrity, unquestionable ethics, and excellent judgement

Qualifications:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other relevant field
• 15 - 20+ years’ of professional experience in Finance, to include manufacturing and R&D settings
• Professional Aerospace and Defense industry experience
• Experience in a Financial leadership role with multi billion-dollar business unit responsibility
• Experience with multiple legal entities and sites
• Extensive cash management experience
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, project and cost accounting, and rates
• Experience in government contracting/government cost accounting and solid understanding of FAR and DFAR
• Experience mentoring and coaching both financial and non-financial staff across the enterprise
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

Desired:

• MBA or Master’s degree
• CPA, CMA
• Blend of both early-stage, high-growth and large company experience
• Experience leading finance strategy related to M&A activities

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here.

Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.

Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.

Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays

Discretionary bonus programs