Senior FP&A Analyst, Manufacturing & Strategic Expansion

Senior FP&A Analyst, Manufacturing & Strategic Expansion

Performance Drone Works (PDW) is building the next generation of tactical robotic systems used across defense, national security, and public safety missions. We are building a new center of engineering excellence to design our new category of tactical robotic systems and the industrial capacity to deliver them, bringing decisive airpower into the hands of every operator. We are not here to make promises;

we are here to deliver real systems with real capabilities for real missions. You will join a team of operators, engineers, and builders who solve hard problems with humility and focus. We design and produce multi-mission aerial systems that operators trust to perform in real-world conditions, reliably, repeatedly, and  approach is grounded in operator-centered design, rapid iteration from field use, and U.S.

-based manufacturing. Weoperateby a clear set of values:
Mission First, Aim Farther, Own It, Win Together. This is how we build advantage and how we help protect our service members, our communities, and our country.

Now, we are seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to help develop and provide ongoing ownership of PDW's integrated manufacturing model as the company scales its existing operations and evaluates expansion into five to seven additional product and mission verticals. Reporting to the Manager of FP&A, this individual will partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Product and Program leaders, Go-to-Market, Accounting, and People Operations to translate demand and launch plans into revenue, production, capacity, COGS, gross margin, investment, working-capital, and cash requirements.

This is a forward-looking FP&A, modeling, and business partnership role rather than a technical accounting or controllership position. The successful candidate will be comfortable building detailed operational models, establishing repeatable frameworks for new verticals, reconciling model outputs to actual results, and converting complex manufacturing tradeoffs into executive-ready recommendations in a rapidly scaling hardware environment.

• Own and continuously improve an integrated, driver-based manufacturing model for PDW's existing operations and expansion into 5 to 7 additional product verticals.
• Translate demand forecasts, program schedules, and launch plans into production-volume, ramp-rate, throughput, capacity, and resource scenarios by product and vertical.
• Build revenue forecasts by product, program, customer, and vertical using unit volume, price, mix, backlog, delivery schedule, and launch-ramp assumptions, with revenue timing aligned to applicable contract terms and accounting policies.
• Model product and vertical-level COGS and unit economics, including material and bill-of-material costs, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, yield, scrap, rework, freight, warranty, and outsourced production assumptions.
• Develop gross-margin forecasts and bridges that isolate the effects of volume, price, mix, material usage and purchase price, labor efficiency, yield, overhead absorption, warranty, and other cost drivers.
• Connect revenue and manufacturing plans to headcount, facilities, tooling, equipment, capital expenditures, inventory, working capital, and cash requirements, and integrate the outputs into PDW's budget, forecast, and long-range plan.
• Build repeatable model templates and assumption standards for new verticals so opportunities can be evaluated consistently while preserving the operating differences of each product, market, and launch plan.
• Support stage-gate investment decisions and business cases for new verticals, capacity additions, make-versus-buy choices, automation, supplier strategies, and facility expansion…