Manager​/Director Financial Planning & Analysis

MANAGER / DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS

Cambium is a global company building the advanced materials base for reindustrialization — from AI-driven molecular design to agile domestic manufacturing. Defense, aerospace, and other high-performance applications demand materials that are stronger, lighter, and more resilient, delivered at unprecedented speed and scale. Our team of world-class scientists and engineers was assembled specifically to take on those challenges. Whether enabling hypersonic flight or protecting critical systems, our solutions solve mission-critical problems and push the limits of what's possible.

Come join us and revolutionize advanced materials for defense, aerospace, and beyond.

Cambium is building out its Financial Planning & Analysis function, and this is the first hire into it. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will define how a $100M+ revenue, venture-backed advanced materials company plans, forecasts, and measures itself — across five sites in the US, the UK, and Europe. You will own the operating plan, the rolling forecast, the KPI framework, and the analysis that reaches our executive team, our board, and our investors, including the materials supporting fundraising.

Cambium intends to grow both organically and through acquisition, so you will also be part of the team that evaluates, diligences, and integrates targets.

This is a build role, not a maintain role. There is no model to inherit, no planning calendar to run, and no reporting package to refresh. The right person is equally comfortable building a driver-based three-statement model in a blank workbook and standing in front of the executive team to explain what it means — and prefers it that way. Cambium is fast-paced and entrepreneurial;

we are looking for someone who brings structure without bureaucracy, goes to the level of detail the question actually requires, and is energized by being the person who builds the function and, over time, the team.

Level and title — Manager or Director — will be set based on experience. The position can be based at any of Cambium's US sites — El Segundo, CA or Mooresville, NC — or fully remote, with periodic travel to El Segundo, Mooresville, and our other locations.

• Stand up Cambium's core planning cadence: the annual operating plan, quarterly re-forecast, and a rolling forecast of P&L, balance sheet, and cash covering all five sites.
• Own the reporting hand-off with Accounting after each monthly close — budget-versus-actual reporting, variance analysis with real explanations rather than restated numbers, and a management reporting package the executive team uses to make decisions.
• Define and instrument the company KPI framework — bookings, backlog, revenue by program and product line, gross margin, headcount, burn, and runway — and establish a single, trusted source of truth for each.
• Select and implement FP&A tooling appropriate to our stage (planning and consolidation, BI/reporting layer), integrate it with our ERP, and retire spreadsheet dependencies where a system genuinely earns its keep.
• Write the playbook: planning calendar, budget templates, approval thresholds, forecast assumptions library, and reporting definitions that survive the next hire and the next 10x.
• Build and lead the team over time — define the roles, hire, and develop FP&A and business-partner finance talent as the company scales.

• Act as finance partner to R&D, Operations, Commercial, and G&A leaders: own their budgets with them, pressure-test their plans, and translate operating decisions into financial outcomes before they are made.
• Model unit economics, program and product-line profitability, and the manufacturing cost and gross margin drivers behind them; support pricing, quoting, and make-versus-buy analysis.
• Lead capital planning — build the business cases for production capacity, lab, and equipment investment, and run the post-investment review that tells us whether they paid off.
• Build the workforce and headcount plan with People Ops, including the approval process, and keep fully loaded cost assumptions current.
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