Financial Planning & Analysis; FP&A) Analyst

Parallax Space, Inc.

Finance & Business Operations

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Analyst / Senior Analyst

Full-time

Denver, CO or Redondo, CA - 100% onsite

Parallax Space is building a new model for the space industry, combining engineering, scalable manufacturing, and integrated mission solutions to deliver critical space capabilities at speed and scale. Our mission is to transform how satellites and space hardware are developed, manufactured, and delivered.

We are seeking a highly organized, analytical, and detail-oriented FP&A Analyst – Business Operations to support cost accounting, purchasing, program-level financial tracking, reconciliations, and enterprise digital systems. This hands‑on role combines transactional execution with financial analysis and continuous improvement, working closely with engineering, manufacturing, program management, and business leadership. The ideal candidate is comfortable building reliable processes while executing daily work in a fast-growing aerospace company.

• Support monthly close: review transactions, prepare accruals and reconciliations, and maintain supporting schedules.
• Maintain job-cost structures and track direct labor, materials, subcontractors, and other program expenses.
• Reconcile purchase orders, receiving records, invoices, vendor statements, and accounting entries.
• Support inventory accounting, work‑in‑process (WIP), cost of goods sold (COGS), and inventory adjustments.
• Assist with direct and indirect cost allocations, actual‑versus‑budget reporting, and variance investigation.
• Prepare cost summaries, financial dashboards, budgeting inputs, rolling forecasts, and cash‑flow projections.
• Help maintain accounting controls, audit support files, and timely resolution of discrepancies.

• Process purchase requisitions, issue purchase orders, and maintain vendor, pricing, and order records.
• Coordinate buying needs and delivery priorities with engineering, program management, and manufacturing.
• Track open orders, acknowledgements, delivery dates, and outstanding financial commitments.
• Support vendor onboarding, quote comparisons, and supplier documentation.
• Perform three‑way matching of purchase orders, receiving documentation, and vendor invoices.
• Resolve invoice and receiving variances and support accurate accounts payable processing.
• Maintain records and approval workflows for commercial and government‑contract procurements.

• Help establish program budgets, work breakdown/cost codes, and consistent program financial baselines.
• Track actual costs, open purchase commitments, remaining funding, and forecast costs to complete.
• Support estimates to complete (ETC), estimates at completion (EAC), and cost variance analyses.
• Prepare recurring program financial reports for program managers and executive leadership.
• Align purchasing and spend forecasts with program schedules, milestones, and cash requirements.
• Support contract milestone billing, customer invoicing, and funding or payment tracking.
• Flag emerging budget, commitment, and margin risks and investigate accounting discrepancies.

• Enter and maintain transactional information in ERP, MRP, accounting, purchasing, and program systems.
• Administer routine master data for suppliers, customers, items, projects, cost codes, and orders.
• Support user onboarding, permissions, approved workflows, and basic system configuration.
• Validate data and reconcile information exchanged across finance, procurement, inventory, and program tools.
• Help troubleshoot user issues, test…