Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, LeoLabs
$165-190k
Mapping platform for space
Job no longer available
Mapping platform for space
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$165-190k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide data-driven transparency and certainty to satellite operators, regulators, space agencies, and industries that rely on satellite services.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a strong leader with exceptional analytical skills, an effective communicator, who is passionate about driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for:
- Have 6+ years of work experience, with at least 3 years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, or corporate development a plus
- Be able to build trust with stakeholders and senior leaders across the organization and drive results through soft skills, not through mandates
- Have extensive competency in building and auditing sophisticated financial models and large data sets
- Be entrepreneurial and have an enthusiastic "get stuff done" mentality
- Be able to expertly balance the need to deliver accurate data and insights that drive focused action with the speed and fast-paced nature of LeoLabs
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving, and high-intensity environments
- Comfortable with building models independently
- Experience with NetSuite
What the job involves
- At LeoLabs, the FP&A Manager will be critical in providing strategic financial guidance to LeoLabs leadership team and planning for the future state of the business
- Leading beyond budgeting and planning - be a thought leader and trusted partner with the leadership team to drive strategic initiatives
- Develop an in-depth understanding of key business drivers of the various functions and communicate how these drivers impact the strategic and financial future of the company
- Assist in developing and executing the quarterly and annual financial planning and review
- Manage software capitalization process, developing a scalable process, and ensuring appropriate accounting controls are maintained
- Partner with the Accounting team to perform month-end close activities and help drive process improvements and efficiencies in the close process
- Contribute to forecast, budget and long-range planning cycles, including enhancing LeoLab’s corporate model and coordinating with stakeholders on assumptions & inputs
- Gather, consolidate, and analyze operating and financial results, including preparing internal and external reporting deliverables and analyzing and explaining trends & drivers
- Assist with management, Board business, and financial planning, including presentations and key analysis requests
- Serve as a key liaison and partner to cross-functional teams, including Finance, Accounting, IT, and other teams to drive scalable analyses and insights
- Assist with ad hoc strategic and operational projects as required
- Within 1 month, you’ll:
- Complete our onboarding program designed to get you up to speed on our business, vision and team
- Gain an understanding about how your role fits into LeoLabs broader organization, meet with the various functional leaders to understand their budgeting needs for FY’24
- Familiarize yourself with and take over operating of the existing financial model
- Within 3 months, you’ll:
- Recommend and negotiate FP&A software to transition the model from, that integrates with our existing Netsuite platform
- Migrate the model to the FP&A platform
- Build a monthly BvA process with the Accounting Team
- Within 6 months, you’ll:
- Have fully functional model migrated to the new Software Platform
- Built functional budgets for each functional leader, including regular check-ins and updates
- Pro-actively be a thought partner for your functional leads on their budgeting needs
- Build out planning collateral to support the business, i.e. specifically the hardware and radar teams
- Within 12 months, you’ll:
- Create the FY’25 Planning process
- Make regular effectiveness and efficiency recommendations to your functional leads
Our take
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is fertile territory for the new space and satellite startups cropping up all over the world. It offers unrivalled access to lightning-fast communications and high-quality earth imaging - the only issue is, things are getting crowded up there. This in itself creates an access and safety issue for further developments and exploration, and collisions run the risk of creating even riskier levels of space debris.
LeoLabs’ LEO mapping and situational awareness services are designed to help organisations monitor and navigate this clutter, and it has cornered the market. Not only is it the leading company operating in this space, but it’s also been awarded a roster of hefty contracts, including from the US Department of Commerce, the European Space Agency and Japan's Air Self-Defence Force.
LEO's sustainability is an issue that’s only going to get more urgent as tech development continues to drive the direction of global communications and observation. So we may see more players push onto the scene. For now, however, LeoLabs’ impressive global leadership in the field and continued partnership with SRI International (from which the labs originally spun out) mean it has time to consolidate and expand its lead. Substantial funding awarded in 2024 will be used to scale up its end-user applications and partner integrations, and on the back of this, it saw $50 million in new contracts that same year.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$4m
GRANT
Feb 2024
$29m
LATE VC
Total funding: $115m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Suburban Park–Lorelei Manor–Flood Park Triangle, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Daniel Ceperley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Student Researcher at at UC Berkeley, then served as Program Director for Space Debris Tracking at SRI International, from which project LeoLabs spun out.
Edward Lu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Spent over a decade as a NASA Astronaut, then moved into a Program Manager role at Google, then Chief of Innovative Applications at Liquid Robotics. Has also spent two decades as the Executive Director of B612 Foundation.
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